✨ Proclamation regarding Cattle Importation
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
Vol. VII.] DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1864, [No. 284.
PROCLAMATION
Prohibiting the Importation of Cattle from Twofold Bay, in New South Wales, into the Province of Otago.
By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the said Province.
WHEREAS by Section 9 of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand 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 the 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 Whereas by Section 14 of the same Act it is 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:
And Whereas, the Governor in Council hath, by Warrant under his hand, delegated to me, John Hyde Harris, so long as I shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Otago, the several powers vested in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth Sections of the said Act:
And Whereas, a Proclamation was issued by me, under the Public Seal of the said Province, before the sixth day of June last, admitting Cattle from the Port and District of Twofold Bay in the Colony of New South Wales, which it is expedient partially to rescind, to the intent that this Proclamation may have full force and effect. And Whereas it has been made to appear to me that a certain infectious or contagious disease has broken out amongst Cattle imported into the Province of Otago, from the Port and District of Twofold Bay, in the Colony of New South Wales aforesaid.
Now, therefore, I the said John Hyde Harris, by virtue of the powers delegated to me in this behalf, do hereby rescind the aforesaid Proclamation of the sixth day of June last, so far as it relates to the Port and District of Twofold Bay, in the Colony of New South Wales aforesaid.
And do hereby Proclaim and Declare that from and after the date hereof the Port and District of Twofold Bay, in the Colony of New South Wales aforesaid, shall be deemed an infected District, Place, or Port, within the meaning, and for the purposes, of the above-mentioned Act, and that no Cattle from and after the date hereof, until further notice shall be permitted to be imported into the Province of Otago from the Port and District of Twofold Bay, in the Colony of New South Wales aforesaid.
Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this thirteenth day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Four.
(L.S.)
J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
By His Honor’s Command.
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1864, No 284
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🌾 Prohibition of Cattle Importation from Twofold Bay
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources13 January 1864
Cattle, Importation, Disease, Twofold Bay, Proclamation
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
- Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary