✨ Provincial Proclamations
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any official signature thereto 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.] THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1862. [No. 159.
Gaols on the Tuapeka Gold Field.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS power is vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Otago to declare any house, building, enclosure, or place to be a public Gaol:
Now therefore I, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue of the powers so vested in me, do hereby Proclaim and declare that the enclosures or rooms numbered two in each of the three several Lock-ups or Watch-houses situate respectively at Weatherston’s Gully, Tuapeka, and Waitahuna, shall henceforth be Public Gaols of the Colony of New Zealand.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, this fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
J. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.
Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by Section No. 9 of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it is enacted that "If at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out in any district of the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, to declare that such district is infected within the meaning of this Act, and from time to time to make such Regulations as to him shall seem fit for prohibiting the importation of Cattle into the Colony from such district, and the landing or driving of such Cattle, and for destroying Cattle imported, landed, or driven contrary to such Regulations;" and by Section 10 of the same Act, it is also enacted that "If at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out amongst Cattle in any district of the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, to declare that such district is infected within the meaning of this Act, and from time to time to make such Regulations for destroying diseased Cattle therein, and for prohibiting the removal or transportation of Cattle from one part of the Colony to another, and for preventing the further spread of such disease...
And it is by the same Act also enacted that the Governor in Council may by warrant under his hand from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the Colony, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or Governor in Council, by the said Act, subject to such Regulations as he may think fit, and may from time to time rescind such delegation: AND WHEREAS the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 159
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⚖️ Declaration of Public Gaols on Tuapeka Gold Field
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement4 January 1862
Gaols, Proclamation, Tuapeka, Weatherston’s Gully, Waitahuna
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
🌾 Proclamation under Diseased Cattle Act, 1861
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesDiseased Cattle Act, Proclamation, Infectious Disease, Cattle Regulations
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago