Diseased Cattle Regulations.

(From the Wellington Gazette, Nov. 14th, 1863.)

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor Isaac Earl Featherston, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS, by section No. 9 of the "Diseased Cattle Act 1861," it is enacted that, "If at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out in any district out of the colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by order in Council, to declare that such district is infected within the meaning of this Act, and from time to time to make such regulations as to him shall seem fit, for prohibiting the importation of cattle into the colony from such district, and the landing or driving of such cattle, and for destroying cattle imported, landed, or driven, contrary to such regulations; and by section of the same Act it is also enacted that, "If at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out among cattle in any district of the colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by order in Council, to declare that such district is infected within the meaning of this Act, and from time to time to make such regulations for destroying diseased cattle therein, and for prohibiting the removal or transportation of cattle from one part of the colony to another, and for preventing the further spread of such disease as to him shall seem fit."

And it is by the same Act also enacted that the Governor in Council may by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any province within the colony, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or Governor in Council, by the said Act, subject to such regulations as he may think fit, and may from time to time rescind such delegation.

And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to Isaac Earl Featherston, Esq., so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, the several powers vested in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act is provided, and subject to the regulations abovesaid by the Governor to be made on the third day of September 1863, and to any further regulations to be from time to time duly made.

Now therefore I, the said Isaac Earl Featherston, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare first, that after the date hereof the several colonies of Australia, that is to say, the colony of Victoria, the colony of New South Wales, the colony of Queensland, the colony of South Australia, and the colony of Western Australia, and the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the above-mentioned Act, and that no cattle, after the date hereof until further notice, shall be imported into the province of Wellington from such districts; provided, however, that the Superintendent of the province may allow any cattle to be landed from vessels from the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland, subject to such conditions as may be thought expedient, and the circumstances of any case may require. And I do also proclaim and declare that, after the date hereof, the province of Otago and the province of Southland, in the colony of New Zealand, shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning of the said Act, and that no cattle shall be imported into the province of Wellington from either of the said provinces.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this 14th day of October 1863.

I. E. Featherston,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
J. Woodward,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

END OF VOL. VI.

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