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Cross of the Most Distinguished Order | Act, as to regulations, appointments, and prohibi-
of Saint Michael and Saint George, tory and other declarations made by Superintendents
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in of Provinces in pursuance of any powers delegated
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New under the powers of delegation contained in the said
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice- Act or this Act, the power of annulling, making void,
Admiral of the same; and issued under or allowing or varying and making anew, any such
the Public Seal of the said Colony, at regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other
Wellington, this eleventh day of May, in declarations vested in the Governor by this Act, may
the year of our Lord one thousand eight from time to time be delegated by the Governor in
hundred and seventy-one. Council, by Warrant under his hand, to the Super-
intendent of any Province:

WILLIAM Fox,
Presiding.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1871.
Present:
THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, AND
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, from time to time, to order and
direct that all or any of the powers, functions, duties,
and authorities vested in or required to be performed
by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the
Colonial Secretary, by the said Act, within any
Province or other district of the Colony, shall be
exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any
such Province, or by any other person the Governor
may think fit; and thereupon such functions, powers,
duties, and authorities may by such Superintendent
or other person be exercised or performed within the
Province or other district of the Colony specified:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the
power and authority for that purpose vested in him,
doth hereby order and direct that all the powers,
functions, duties, and authorities vested or
required to be performed by the Governor, or the
Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by
"The Lunatics Act, 1868," within the Province of
Wellington, shall be exercised by the Superintendent
of such Province.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1871.
Present:
THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, AND
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865" (section 4), the
Governor may, by any Order in Council, from time
to time annul, make void, or alter or vary and make
anew, any Orders in Council, regulations, appoint-
ments, or prohibitory or other declarations made and
published by the Governor under the authority of
"The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," or of this Act, or
by the Superintendent of any Province under or in
pursuance of any power delegated to him under any
of the powers of delegation contained in the said Act:
And whereas by section five of the said Amendment

tory and other declarations made by Superintendents
of Provinces in pursuance of any powers delegated
under the powers of delegation contained in the said
Act or this Act, the power of annulling, making void,
or allowing or varying and making anew, any such
regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other
declarations vested in the Governor by this Act, may
from time to time be delegated by the Governor in
Council, by Warrant under his hand, to the Super-
intendent of any Province:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, G.C.M.G., in exercise of the power and
authority so vested in him as Governor as aforesaid,
doth by this Order in Council delegate to

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, so
long and so long only as he shall continue to be such
Superintendent, all the powers which, by the said fifth
section of the said Amendment Act, the Governor in
Council is authorized so to delegate.

WILLIAM Fox,
Presiding.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1871.
Present:
THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, AND
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act Amend-
ment Act, 1868," it is enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor, if and whenever he shall
have, by lease, agreement, or otherwise, by consent
of the Native owners of any land over which the
Native title has been extinguished, or the Native
owners of any land over which the Native title
has not been extinguished, obtain power from
such Native or other owners to authorize entry on
such lands for mining for gold, by Proclamation
issued under the third section of "The Gold Fields
Act, 1866," to include such land within any Gold
Field, or to proclaim such land a Gold Field: And
by the said Act it is further enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand
and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time
to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province,
or to such other person as the Governor may deem
fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor
by the preceding sections of the said Act (including
the above-recited sections), subject or not to any
limitations or restrictions as the Governor may think
fit:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the power for
that purpose vested in him by the said Act, doth
hereby delegate to

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, all
the powers vested in the Governor by the said recited
section of "The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act,
1868," to have, hold, and exercise, within the Province
of Wellington, the said powers hereby delegated to
the said William Fitzherbert, so long as he shall con-
tinue and remain Superintendent of the said Province,
and no longer: Provided always that no Proclama-
tion affecting any lands shall be made by the said
William Fitzherbert, under the powers hereby dele-
gated to him, unless the Governor shall have obtained