✨ Proclamation and Government Notices
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.
By His Honor’s Command,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.
Vol. VI.] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1863. [No. 275.
PROCLAMATION.
Cancellation of License to depasture Stock on 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 where 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 contained in sections XIX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, and LXI thereof, subject or not to any limitation as he may seem 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 over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, dated at the Government House at Auckland on the fifteenth 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 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, I, John Hyde Harris, in execution 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 Field Act, 1862,” under the name of the Wakatipu Gold Field, and the limits of which Gold Field I did, by the said Proclamation, define. And whereas a certain block or section of land, containing about one hundred thousand (100,000) acres by estimation, and bounded towards the east by Run No. 840, situate within the said Province of Otago, and now or
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1863, No 275
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🗺️ Cancellation of License to Depasture Stock on Waste Lands of the Crown
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey11 November 1863
Gold Fields Act, Crown Lands, License Cancellation, Wakatipu Gold Field
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
- Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary