✨ Proclamation of Mount Benger Gold Field
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.
J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.
Vol. V.] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1862. [No. 215.
PROCLAMATION,
Of Mount Benger Gold Field.
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 also 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 Sections 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, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, given under the hand of His Excellency Thomas Gore Browne, as the Governor, and under the Public Seal of the Colony, the said Governor of the 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 me, 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 powers by the said Commission given.
Now therefore, I, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, Do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority constitute and appoint all that...
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 215
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- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago