✨ Gold Field Proclamation
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 HYDE HARRIS, Deputy Superintendent.
Vol. V.] MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1862. [No. 199.]
EXTENSION OF THE TUAPEKA GOLD FIELD.
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, fifteen, 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, at the Government House at Auckland, and under the public seal of the colony, His Excellency 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, I, the said Superintendent proclaimed a Gold Field, bounded as described in a 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, on the eighth day of October, 1861, I, the said Superintendent altered and extended the limits of the said Gold Field by a Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette of Otago, numbered 158, and dated on the sixth
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- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago