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PROCLAMATION

Declaring a certain portion of the Province of Otago to be an Infected District under the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”

By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the said Province.

WHEREAS by Section 10 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 amongst 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 the said Act, and from time to time to make such Regulations for Destroying 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: 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 it has been made to appear to me that a certain contagious or infectious disease has broken out amongst Cattle imported into the said Province.

Now, therefore, I, the said John Hyde Harris, by virtue of the powers delegated to me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date hereof until further notice, that portion of the Province of Otago in the Colony of New Zealand hereinafter described shall be deemed an infected District ... within the meaning and for the purposes of the said “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” that is to say, that area bounded towards the North by Allen’s Creek to its source, thence by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station 0 Waikouaiti Survey District, thence towards the East by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station [ in the said Waikouaiti Survey District, and thence by a direct line to Brinn’s Point, thence towards the South by the Ocean to the mouth of the Taieri River, and thence towards the West by the Taieri River to the Waipori Lake and the Waipori River to Verter Burn, thence to Allen’s Creek, the starting point.

And that no Cattle from and after the date hereof, until further notice, shall be permitted to be removed or transported from the said infected District.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this sixteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.

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

PROCLAMATION

Prohibiting the Importation of Cattle from all the Australian Ports with the exception of Gipps’ Land and Mornington.

By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

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 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 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:

Now, therefore, I the said John Hyde Harris, by virtue of the powers delegated to me in this behalf do hereby Proclaim and Declare that from, and after, the date hereof, all the Australian Ports, with the exception of Gipps Land and Mornington shall be deemed infected Districts, Places or Ports, 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 any of the said Australian Ports, with the exception of Gipps Land and Mornington aforesaid.

(L.S.)

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this eighteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

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

PROCLAMATION

By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by virtue of the powers in me vested in that behalf, I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, dated the fourteenth day of January instant, Declare to be an Infected District within the meaning of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” all that part of the said