✨ Proclamation
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, OCTOBER 21, 1863. [No. 271.]
PROCLAMATION.
Cancellation of License to depasture Stock upon certain Waste Lands of the Crown.
By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is enacted that when any Gold Mine’ or Gold Field shall be discovered and proclaimed upon any Crown Lands held under License or Lease for depasturing purposes, it shall be lawful for the Governor, at his discretion, to cancel the license or lease under which such land shall have been held in occupation, as regards the whole or any part of the lands so held under such license or lease. 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 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 XIX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, and LXI, thereof, subject or not to any limitations as he may think fit:
And whereas by warrant under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, dated at the Government House, at Auckland, on the thirteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and issued under the Public Seal of the said Colony, His Excellency, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose in him vested, did delegate absolutely and without restriction unto me, John Hyde Harris, as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the powers vested by “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” in him and in him and his Council, except the powers contained in sections XIX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, and LXI, of the said Act: To have, hold, and exercise within the said Province of Otago the powers by the said Act given:
And whereas on the fifteenth day of September last, John Hyde Harris, in exercise of the powers in me vested in that behalf, did by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette constitute and appoint a certain portion of the Province of Otago to be a Gold Field, under the provisions of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” under the name of the Dunstan Gold Field, and the limits of which Gold
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1863, No 271
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🗺️ Cancellation of License to depasture Stock upon certain Waste Lands of the Crown
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyLicense cancellation, Depasturing, Crown Lands, Gold Fields Act, Dunstan Gold Field
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago