office of Superintendent of the Province of Otago, the several powers vested in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act is provided, and subject to the Regulations issued by the Governor in Council, on the first day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and to any other Regulations to be from time to time duly made;

NOW THEREFORE I, the said JOHN LARKINS CHENEY RICHARDSON, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare, that after the date hereof the several Colonies of Australia—that is to say, the Colony of Victoria, the Colony of New South Wales, the Colony of Queensland, the Colony of South Australia, and the Colony of Western Australia, as well as the Colony of Tasmania, and the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the above-mentioned Act, and that no Cattle after the date hereof until further notice, shall be imported into the Province of Otago from such districts: provided, however, that the Superintendent of the Province may allow any Cattle to be landed from vessels from the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland subject to such conditions and restrictions as he may deem expedient, and the circumstances of any case may require.

And, Whereas Cattle have been lately imported from the said Colony of New South Wales into the Province of Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, and the Cattle in the said Province have thereby become infected, I do therefore further proclaim and declare that after the date hereof the Province of Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, shall be deemed to be an infected district within the meaning of the said Act, and that no Cattle shall be removed or transported from the said Province of Southland into the Province of Otago.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this sixth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

J. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
JOHN HARDY,
Provincial Secretary.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING DELEGATION OF POWERS TO SUPERINTENDENTS UNDER DISEASED CATTLE ACT, 1851.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the First day of October, 1861.

Present:—

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Warrants under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, bearing date the first day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the Governor has, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to the Superintendents respectively of the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, certain powers conferred on him by the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1851,” subject to certain Regulations to be made by the Governor in Council, under the r cited Act: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, by virtue of the authority given to him by the 14th Section of the above-recited Act, doth hereby make and ordain the following Regulations:—

1. The delegation of Powers under the said Warrants shall continue to be in force for the period of one year from this date, subject to be rescinded according to the provisions of the above-recited Act.

2. Each Superintendent shall, immediately after exercising any of the Delegated Powers, notify the same to the Governor, and he shall transmit to the Governor particulars of all Appointments, and copies of all Regulations made by him.

3. He shall, so soon as conveniently can be, notify all Regulations made by him to the Colonial Secretary, or Chief Secretary of each of the Australian Colonies, and cause the same to be published in England in the Times newspaper.

4. In the exercise of powers delegated under the 9th Section of the said Act, the Superintendent of any Province may, either in the first instance, or afterwards, from time to time, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province, except out of any District proclaimed as infected under the said Act, any Port or place within the limits of such District, and every such excepted Port and Place shall be deemed not to be within the proclaimed District; and the Superintendent may also from time to time by Proclamation as aforesaid rescind any Proclamation of an infected District wholly or as to any part thereof, and also the Proclamation of any such exception as aforesaid.

5. In the exercise of powers delegated under the 10th Section of the Act, the Superintendent of any Province may prohibit the importation, either by land or by sea, of Cattle into such Province from any other Province, or any particular Port or Place in any other Province, or across the borders of a Province, or any particular part thereof.

6. In all such last-mentioned cases, such Superintendent shall cause notice as speedily as possible of such prohibition to be given to the Superintendent of the Province from which importation shall be prohibited, and also to the Governor.

7. The Superintendent of any Province may in his discretion, suspend or forbear to exercise all or any of the powers delegated to him under the said Act.

8. The Superintendent of each Province shall as soon as can be after the commencement of each sitting of the Provincial Council of such Province, lay before such Council copies and particulars of all appointments, regulations, acts, and proceedings whatever, issued, made, or done by him under the delegated powers of the said Act.