MAR. 25.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 373

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is
expedient to vest the said land in the Chairman,
Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Ash-
burton:

Now, therefore, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said colony, and in
exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him
by the sixth section of "The Public Reserves Act
Amendment Act, 1878," doth hereby declare that,
from and after the day of the date hereof, the said
reserve shall become vested in the said Chairman,
Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Ash-
burton.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Rangitata Survey
District, Provincial District of Canterbury, containing
80 acres, more or less. Bounded-South-westward
by the River Rangitata; North eastward by the top
of the Terrace; South-eastward and North-westward
by parallel lines bearing 38° 20′ (true), and distant
from the Main South Road 23 chains and 40 chains
respectively: and numbered 2445 (in red) on the
official map in the Survey Office, Christchurch.

All that parcel of land in the Geraldine Survey
District, Provincial District of Canterbury, contain-
ing 88 acres 2 roods, more or less. Bounded-North-
eastward by the North Rangitata River; and South-
eastward, South-westward, and North-westward by
Lots 28 and 27 of Reserve 1371 (in red): and num-
bered 2450 on the official map in the Survey Office
Christchurch.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

"Regulations under Diseased Cattle Acts."-Notice
No. 31.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-fifth day of March, 1880.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of "The
Diseased Cattle Act, 1871" (hereinafter called
"the said Act") it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor, by Order in Council, at any time
after the coming into operation of the said Act, to
make general regulations for the several purposes in
the said Act specified:

And whereas the said Act was, by a Proclamation
made by the Governor thereunder, and published in
the New Zealand Gazette, proclaimed to come into
force in the Colony of New Zealand on the fourteenth
day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two:

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted
that, in any regulations made thereunder, it shall be
lawful for the Governor to prescribe penalties for the
breach thereof, as in the said Act mentioned:

And whereas it is expedient to rescind all Proclama-
tions, Orders in Council, and notices prescribing the
fees to be taken by Inspectors for the inspection of
cattle (whether arriving by sea or in any district),
and also for the allowances to be made to such
Inspectors as and for travelling expenses in respect
of cattle:

And whereas by section thirteen of "The Diseased
Cattle Act 1871 Amendment Act, 1873," it is enacted
that every Order in Council made under the said
Acts shall fix a time within which the same shall
come into force:

And whereas it is expedient that regulations should
be made for the several purposes hereinafter men-
tioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council thereof, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority conferred
by the said Act, and of all other powers and authori-
ties enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby rescind
and revoke all Proclamations and Orders in Council
for prescribing fees and allowances as aforesaid, so
far as the same relate to cattle as hereinafter defined,
and doth hereby make the general regulations set
forth in the Schedule hereto.

And doth order and declare that the regulations
hereby made shall take effect on and after the day
next after the publication of this Order in Council in
the New Zealand Gazette, on which day the same
shall come into operation.

SCHEDULE.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations the following words and
   phrases shall have the several meanings hereby
   respectively assigned to them :--

"Animal" shall mean cattle of every age and sex.
"Cattle" shall include bulls, cows, oxen, heifers,
steers, and calves.
"Board" shall mean the Local Cattle Board of the
district.
"District" shall mean any part of the colony
constituted a district under the said Act.
"Infected place" shall mean any district or portion
of a district, or any place whatsoever, declared
to be an infected place under the said Act.
"Inspector" shall mean the Inspector of the
district, or any Deputy Inspector duly ap-
pointed under the said Act.
"Disease" shall mean pleuro-pneumonia.
"Diseased" shall mean suffering from pleuro-
pneumonia.
"The said Act" shall include "The Diseased Cattle
Act Amendment Act, 1873."

2. Words importing the singular number include
   the plural, and words importing the plural number
   include the singular.

NOTICES.

3. The owner or person having the custody or
   charge of any diseased cattle shall forthwith give
   notice in writing to the Inspector, and if any Inspector
   shall find any diseased cattle before such notice has
   been given, every such owner or person shall be liable
   to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds unless he can
   prove that he did not know of such cattle being
   diseased.

Provided that no notice if given to an Inspector
after he has entered on any premises for the purpose
of inspecting the cattle therein shall be deemed to
be a notice for the purposes of this section.

4. The Inspector may from time to time direct
   persons in the occupation of any premises declared
   to be infected under sections nineteen, twenty, or
   twenty-one of the said Act, to affix, and keep affixed,
   notices to that effect on such part of the said premises,
   and in such manner as the Inspector directs; and
   such person shall affix, and keep affixed, the same
   accordingly, and in default thereof shall be liable to
   a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each day's
   default.

QUARANTINE.

5. Cattle arriving from any place beyond the seas
   and placed in quarantine shall remain therein for such
   time, not exceeding forty-two days, as the Board shall
   in each case specially direct or require.