✨ Proclamation of Gold Field
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JOHN L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.
VOL. IV.]
FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1861.
[No 149.
PROCLAMATION,
By His Honor JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Gold Fields Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a "Gold Field" under the provisions of the said Act.
And whereas by the said Act it is provided 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, or the Governor in Council, by the said Act, except the powers conferred by section seven, eight, twenty-seven, and forty thereof, subject or not subject to any limitation or restrictions as he may think fit.
And whereas by virtue of a commission, bearing date the eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, given under the hand of His Excellency THOMAS GORE BROWNE, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose in him vested, did delegate, absolutely and without restriction, unto JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Esquire, as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the powers vested in him under or by virtue of "The Gold Fields Act, 1858," except the powers contained in sections seven, eight, fifteen, twenty-seven, and forty of the said Act, to have, hold, and exercise, within the Province of Otago, the said powers by the said commission given :
Now therefore I, JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Superintendent as aforesaid of the said Province of Otago, DO HEREBY, in pursuance of the said power and authority, constitute and appoint all that territory hereinafter described to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the said Act; that is to say, All that territory, comprising fifty-one thousand Acres or thereabouts, bounded on the North, East, and West by the Watershed of the ranges enclosing the basin of the Tuapeka, and on the South by an East and West Line (true bearing) drawn through that creek junction.
And I declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this seventeenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
(L.S.)
J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1861, No 149
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