2. That if such Inspector shall be satisfied that such Cattle or any of them are actually infected with Pleuro-pneumonia or other infectious disease, he shall forthwith give to the owner, or the person having the custody, charge or possession of the said Cattle, notice of which of the said Cattle he deems actually infected, and such owner or person aforesaid shall within 24 hours after such notice destroy the Cattle so deemed infected, and shall forthwith bury four feet under ground, or burn the carcasses of the Cattle so destroyed, and if the owner or person having the custody or possession of the Cattle deemed by the Inspector to be infected cannot readily be found, or if such owner or person neglect to destroy the Cattle deemed infected after the receipt of the notice aforesaid, any Inspector for the said infected Districts may seize and destroy or cause to be seized and destroyed such Cattle so deemed infected.

3. That if any owner of Cattle, or any person having the custody or charge of Cattle, shall after having received such notice as aforesaid, neglect, or refuse to destroy the same, or any of them, within twenty-four hours after such notice, such owner, or person aforesaid, shall be liable to a fine, or penalty of Fifty Pounds, for every head of Cattle which he shall have neglected or refused to destroy.

4. That if any owner of Cattle which any such Inspector as aforesaid, has notified to be infected, or if any person having the custody, care, or possession of any such Cattle shall after the same, or any of them, have been destroyed, neglect, or refuse to bury four feet under ground, or to burn the carcasses thereof within twenty-four hours after the destruction thereof, such owner, or person aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty of Ten Pounds for every carcass which he shall neglect, or refuse to bury or burn.

5. That if any Inspector for the Infected Districts, Proclaimed as aforesaid, shall suspect that any Cattle within the said Infected Districts, are infected with Pleuro-pneumonia, or any other infectious disease, but shall not be satisfied that such Cattle are actually infected, he may, if he shall think fit, order the owner, or person having the custody, or being in possession of such Cattle, to drive, or cause to be driven, the said Cattle, to such place within the said Infected Districts, Proclaimed as aforesaid, as he may think fit, thereto be kept until he shall give permission for their removal.

6. That the Inspectors of Diseased Cattle under the said Act, for the said Infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid, shall forthwith cause to be publicly posted, or exhibited at and about all the main thoroughfares leading into the said Infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid, a notice that the said Infected Districts have been so Proclaimed and Declared Infected.

7. That if any person shall drive, or remove, or cause to be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any Cattle out from the said Infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid, such person shall be liable to a fine of Fifty pounds for every head of such Cattle so driven out from the said Infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid.

8. That it shall be lawful for any Inspector of the said Infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid, or any Police Constable having reasonable grounds to suspect that any Cattle are about to be driven out from the said infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid, to seize the same and take charge thereof, until he shall be satisfied that no attempt will be made to drive such Cattle out from the said Infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid.

9. That in case any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any Inspector or any Police Constable acting under the authority of these Regulations, every person so offending shall and may be seized and detained by such persons acting as aforesaid, or any person or persons he may call to his assistance, until such offender or offenders can be taken before two Justices of the Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds.

10. That all owners or persons having the custody, care, or possession of any Cattle within the said infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid, shall within fourteen days from this day give a notice to the Officer in charge of the Police Station nearest to the place where such Cattle are kept or are, containing the number of such Cattle, the particulars as nearly as can be of the place or places where such Cattle are kept or are, and the brands with which they are branded.

11. That the Inspector or Inspectors for the said infected Districts proclaimed as aforesaid, shall make Report in writing to the Superintendent of the Province of all things done by him or them under these Regulations and under the said Act, as and when he or they shall be required so to do.

12. That the Inspector or Inspectors may, if he or they shall think fit, grant a Certificate to the Owner of any Cattle destroyed under or by virtue of the said Act, or these Regulations recommending a grant to such Owners of compensation for such destruction; but such compensation shall in no case exceed £8 per head for Cattle under two years, or £6 per head for Cattle above that age.

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.

(L.S.)

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.

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

DISEASED CATTLE ACT, 1861.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 18th January, 1864.

A SPECIAL Gazette was Published this day, containing—

A Proclamation, dated 14th January current, declaring that from and after the said 14th day of January, and until further notice, the following portion of the Province shall be deemed an Infected District within the meaning, and for the purposes of the said “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” that is to say, all that area situate in the North Eastern District of the Province of Otago, bounded towards the North, by Shag River; towards the East, by the Ocean; towards the South, by the Southern boundary line of the Waikouaiti Native Reserve, thence by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station I in the said Waikouaiti Survey District; thence towards the West by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station O of the Waikouaiti Survey District; thence by a line due North to the Waikouaiti River, and thence by the boundary of New Hawkesbury Hundred to the Shag River.

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

A Proclamation dated 16th January current, declaring that from and after the said 16th day of January, and until further notice, the following portion of the Province shall be deemed an infected District within the meaning and for the purposes of the said “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861;” that is to say all that area bounded towards the North by Allen’s Creek to