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[ NEW ZEALAND ]

OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. VII.] DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1864. [No. 290.

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 the 10th of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” it is enacted that if at any time it shall be made to appear 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 the 14th of the said 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 all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act, subject to such regulations as he may think fit.

And Whereas the Governor in Council did, by warrant under his hand, dated the 9th day of May, 1863, delegate to me, John Hyde Harris, so long as I shall hold the office of Superintendent of Otago, amongst others the powers vested in the Governor by the 10th Section of the said Act.

And Whereas by Proclamation under my hand and under the Public Seal of the said Province, on the 14th day of January last, at Dunedin, I, the said John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the said Province, by virtue of the powers vested in me in that behalf, did thereby Proclaim and Declare that from and after the date thereof until further notice that portion of the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, therein described, should be deemed to be an infected district within the meaning and for the purposes of the said “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”

And Whereas it is expedient to extend the limits of the said district so as to include that portion of the said Province as lies between the Shag River, in the said north-eastern district of the said Province, and the Horse Range, in the said north-eastern district.

Now Therefore, I, the said John Hyde Harris, by virtue of the powers delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby Proclaim and Declare that from and after the date hereof, and until further notice, that portion of the north-eastern district 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: All that area situate in the north-eastern district of the Province of Otago, bounded towards the north-east by the boundary line of run No. 109 to its south-eastern corner, thence by a line to the Horse Range, thence by the Horse Range to the ocean, towards the east by the ocean, towards the south by the southern boundary of the Waikouaiti Native Reserve, thence by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station L, in the Waikouaiti Survey district, thence towards the west by a direct line to Trigonometrical Station O, in the said Waikouaiti Survey district, thence by a line due