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TUAPEKA GOLD FIELD AS EXTENDED.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Esquire, 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, by Proclamation, to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a "Gold Field" under the provisions of the said Act, and the limits of such Gold Field from time to time to alter as occasion may require.

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 the Public Seal of the Colony, 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. And whereas on the seventeenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the said Superintendent proclaimed a Gold Field bounded as described in the proclamation published in the Provincial Government Gazette of Otago, on the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, No. 149. And whereas it is expedient to alter the limits of the said Gold Field as hereinafter mentioned.

Now therefore I, JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do HEREBY, in pursuance of the power and authority so vested in me as aforesaid, alter the limits of the said Gold Field, and declare that the same shall comprise all that area estimated to contain 187,000 acres, bounded on the north by the Watershed of the Waipore, with Lee and Traquhar streams extending from Lammerlaw to Maungatua, on the east by the boundary of the North Tokomairiro and West Tuicri Hundreds, on the south by the south boundary of Run 64, on the west by the Tuapeka River to its junction, thence by an east and west line (true bearing) to the Watershed of the Tuapeka and Clutha, thence by that Watershed to Lammerlaw.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.

Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 2nd October, 1861

HIS HONOR the SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified, that

JAMES PATERSON, ESQUIRE,
was this day duly elected a member of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, for the town of Dunedin District.

By order,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 14th October, 1861.

HIS HONOR the SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified, that

JOHN LILLIE GILLIES, ESQUIRE,
was, on 10th October inst., duly elected to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council of Otago, for the Tokomairiro District.

By order,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 14th October, 1861.

HIS HONOR the SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified, that he has appointed

JOHN GILLIES, ESQUIRE,
an Auditor of the Public Accounts, vice Alfred Chetham Strode, Esq., resigned.

By order,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.

Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 17th October, 1861.

HIS HONOR the SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified, that he has appointed

DAVID DICKIE
second Deputy Harbour Master for the Port of Otago.

By order,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.