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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

some one or other of which places all sheep to be
introduced by land into any such district shall be
crossed over such boundaries:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of the powers vested in him by
"The Sheep Act, 1878," and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
colony, doth hereby revoke all appointments, rules,
and regulations, and tables of fees, relating to
matters affected by the said Act, in force in any part
of the colony at the time of the coming into opera-
tion of this present order, and doth hereby abolish
all crossing-places for sheep heretofore established
and in use at the time aforesaid; and in lieu thereof
respectively doth hereby appoint and prescribe that
the regulations and table of fees set forth in the
Schedule hereto shall be the regulations for the in-
struction and guidance of all officers appointed under
the said Act, and the fees to be paid in respect of any
duty performed under the said Act; and doth also
further order and direct that the crossing-places also
mentioned in the aforesaid Schedule shall be the only
places at which sheep shall be introduced by land
into the several sheep districts in the said Schedule
respectively mentioned; and His Excellency, with
the like advice and consent, doth hereby further
proclaim and direct that this order shall come into
operation throughout the colony and take effect
therein on and after the first day of the month of
May now next ensuing.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS, TABLE OF FEES, AND CROSSING-
PLACES.

1. Control and Management.

1. All communications between Inspectors and the
   Government, or the heads of other departments, will
   be made through the Chief Inspector. The Chief
   Inspector will communicate direct with the Colonial
   Secretary. In districts where no Chief Inspector is
   appointed the Inspectors will communicate with the
   Colonial Secretary.

2. Every Inspector will be under the control and
   management of the Chief Inspector of his district,
   to whom he will apply for any advice or information
   he may require on matters relating to the duties of
   his office.

3. No person shall be capable of being or con-
   tinuing an Inspector of Sheep who shall, either
   directly or indirectly, be an owner of or a dealer or
   interested in any sheep, or act as the agent of any
   such owner or dealer or person so interested.

2. Acts, Regulations, and Instructions.

4. The Inspector will be bound to keep copies of
   the Acts, Regulations, or Instructions under which he
   is empowered to act, or which he is appointed to see
   carried out. And he will produce all such Acts,
   Regulations, or Instructions when required by any
   owner of stock.

3. Correspondence and Returns.

5. The Inspector will make all his communica-
   tions to owners and others in writing, or partly
   in printing and partly in writing—whether in the
   shape of notices, instructions, or decisions—copies
   of which he will in all cases retain; and he will, when
   they are of importance, deliver all such notices and
   decisions to the parties interested personally, or at
   their residences, or transmit them to their respective
   addresses by registered letter through the post.

6. The Inspector will include one subject only in a
   letter, but he may send any number of letters under
   the same cover.

7. He will acknowledge the receipt of every com-
   munication and document he receives by return mail;
   and in replying to official correspondence the Inspec-
   tor will give not only the date of such communication,
   but also the registered number, if any, which it may
   bear: And when any enclosure marked "to be
   returned" is received, he will note and attend to its
   contents, and, if there be sufficient room to do so, he
   will write his reply on the same paper, and return it
   without delay to the officer by whom it was for-
   warded.

8. All correspondence and reports by him should
   be expressed in clear and concise terms, and should
   be written in a legible hand, on foolscap paper, with
   one-third margin, and on one side of the sheet.

9. The Inspector will keep such books as may be
   required, including a journal or record of the em-
   ployment of his time, of the state of the health of
   the flocks in his district, and how the Acts under
   which he is appointed are being carried out. He
   will make up returns in such form and at such times
   as may be prescribed.

10. On retirement or removal from office, the In-
    spector will hand over to his successor, or to any one
    duly appointed, all public records, books, Acts,
    regulations, or other documents, papers, or articles
    in his possession, relating to the duties of his office,
    and will transmit to the Colonial Secretary a list of
    the books, documents, and articles so handed over by
    him.

11. Inspectors are authorized to frank letters and
    papers and telegrams, solely on business relating to
    their office. They will be careful that the matter
    they transmit by telegram is clear and concise.

4. Outlay and Expenses.

12. No Inspector shall in any case incur any outlay
    or expense without having first asked and obtained
    the sanction of the Chief Inspector thereto, except
    in cases of emergency, when he will, without delay,
    report the circumstances of the case to the Chief
    Inspector. The Chief Inspector will obtain the sanc-
    tion of the Colonial Secretary to all expenditure.

5. Enforcement of Penalties.

13. As it is the duty of the Inspector to see that
    the provisions of the Acts or Regulations under
    which he is appointed are carried out in their in-
    tegrity, he will be vigilant to detect any breach or
    evasion of their provisions, and, on doing so, he will
    lay an information against the offender, and prosecute
    for the penalties that may be incurred.

14. As soon as he has decided to lay an information
    for the recovery of any penalty or sum of money
    under these Acts or Regulations, the Inspector will
    immediately (and, where necessary, by telegram)
    communicate his intention to the Chief Inspector; and,
    if he has not previously done so, he will transmit to
    him at the same time a full statement of the case,
    that the Chief Inspector may be in a position
    either to stay proceedings or assist him in obtaining
    a conviction.

15. The Chief Inspector will, in all cases, transmit
    a full statement of each case to the Colonial Secretary,
    in order that authority may be given to incur expen-
    diture for professional assistance, according as the
    circumstances of the case may require.

6. Inspections.

16. The Inspector will make himself thoroughly
    acquainted with the symptoms of the diseases affect-
    ing or likely to affect stock, but more especially with
    those of scab in sheep, foot and mouth, pleuro-
    pneumonia, foot-rot, fluke, worms, Cumberland
    disease, and black leg.

17. In conducting inspections the Inspector will
    exercise the greatest vigilance and care—1st, That he