Proclamation and Gazette Notice




OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

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

Vol. VI.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1863. [No. 256.


PROCLAMATION,

Admitting Cattle into the Province of Otago from certain places.

By the Honorable John Hyde Harris, Esquire, Superintendent of the said Province.

JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date hereof until further notice, the district of South Australia, and so much only of the District of Gipps’ Land as lies south and west of the rivers M’Alister, Thomson, and La Trobe, according to the description annexed hereto, shall not be deemed Infected Districts, within the meaning, and for the purposes of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.” And that I do hereby rescind the Proclamations of the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, bearing date the 5th day of June 1862, and the 2nd day of June 1863, so far as the same relate to the District of South Australia, and the before-mentioned portion of the District of Gipps’ Land.

SCHEDULE.

Commencing at a point on the sea coast, on the south side of Lake Reeves, and bearing north-westerly to the south-east angle of Lake Wellington near Seacombe Township; thence bounded on the north by the south side of Lake Wellington; thence bearing westerly to the junction of Lake Wellington and La Trobe River; thence bounded on the north-east by the La Trobe River, bearing westerly to the junction of the La Trobe and M’Alister Rivers; thence bounded on the north-east by the M’Alister River; bearing north-westerly, and by a line bearing north-westerly to a mountain range between Mount Buller and Jamieson Township; thence bearing south-westerly along the summit of said range to the northern boundary of the County of Evelyn; thence bounded on the west by the County of Evelyn, and bearing south-easterly and westerly to the junction of the Counties of Evelyn and Mornington; thence bounded on the west by the County of Mornington, bearing southerly to the sea coast; thence bounded by the sea coast and Corner Inlet, bearing south-easterly, northerly, and north-easterly to the point of commencement.

Given under my hand and the seal of the Province, at Dunedin, this eleventh day of July, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

(L.S.)

JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.

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



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🌾 Proclamation admitting cattle into Otago from certain places

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
11 July 1863
Cattle, Import, Proclamation, Diseased Cattle Act, Otago
  • John Hyde Harris, Superintendent
  • Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary