From the Wellington Gazette, September 20, 1865.

Diseased Cattle Regulations.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Isaac Earl Featherston Esquire
Superintendent of the Province of Wellington in
the Colony 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 such cattle and for destroying cattle imported landed or driven contrary to such regulations;” and by Section 10 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 the 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vested in the Governor by the second fourth fifth seventh ninth and tenth Sections of the said Act subject to being rescinded as in the said Act is provided and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the 18th day of September 1865 and to any other regulations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 as well as the Colony of Tasmania and the Colony of 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 shall be imported 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 and restrictions as he may deem expedient and the circumstances of any case may require. And I do also proclaim and declare that after the date hereof the Provinces of Auckland Otago and 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 (P.S.) at Wellington this nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

I. E. Featherston,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
A. Follett Halcombe,
Provincial Secretary.

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