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.] WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1862. [No. 190.

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,” passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, 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 out 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 as to him shall seem fit.” And it is by the same Act also enacted that the Governor in Council may 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 me, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, so long as I shall hold the 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: And whereas a Proclamation was issued by me in this behalf under the Public Seal of the said Province upon the sixth day of January, 1862, which it is expedient to rescind to the intent that this Proclamation may have full force and effect.

Now THEREFORE I, the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby rescind the aforesaid Proclamation, and do hereby proclaim and declare, that after the date hereof, all Districts, Places, and Ports, wheresoever out of the Main Land of the North and Middle Islands of New Zealand, 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.

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

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s Command,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.