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SHEEP RETURN—CONTINUED.

(From the Canterbury Gazette, November 27, 1865.)

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, declaring certain Districts to be infected under “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”

WHEREAS by “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” it was provided that the Governor in Council might, by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the said 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 might think fit, and might from time to time rescind such delegation: And whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to SAMUEL BEALEY, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, the several powers vested in the said Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the Eighteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and to any other Regulations to be from time to time duly made:

Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare, that after the date hereof the several Provinces of the Colony of New Zealand, that is to say, the Provinces of Otago and of Southland, in the Middle Island, and the Provinces of Auckland and of Taranaki in the North Island, shall be deemed to be infected Districts within the meaning of the said Act: And I do further proclaim and declare the following Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle, and for the preventing and regulating the removal or transportation of cattle from the said several infected Districts into the Province of Canterbury.

I. If any person shall import, drive or remove, or cause to be imported, driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from either of such districts into the Province of Canterbury, except upon Quarantine ground, and the authority of a Quarantine certificate, such person shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds for every head of cattle so imported, driven, or removed.

II. It shall be lawful for any Inspector of cattle, or Police Constable to destroy, or cause to be destroyed, any cattle which shall pass into this Province from either of the said districts contrary to these Regulations.

III. If 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 so 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.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province at Christchurch, (L.S.) this Twenty-seventh day of November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,

EDW. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, December 11, 1865, No. 48.]

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION

Appointing certain Districts under “The Marriage Act.”

WHEREAS by “The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of New Zealand, for the purposes of the said Act, into such and so many districts as he may think fit, and that every such district shall be called by a distinct name, and shall be a Registrar’s District, and it is provided that the Governor may at any time revoke the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation, dividing the Colony or any part of it anew into districts, or increasing the number or altering the boundaries of districts, as from time to time he may think requisite.

And whereas, by Proclamation duly made and issued, the Governor in pursuance of the said recited power and authority, did, amongst others, constitute districts in the Province of Otago for the purposes of the said Act, the boundaries whereof were therein set forth.

And whereas it is expedient to revoke so much of the said Proclamations as relates to the said districts, and to divide anew the territory formerly comprised within such districts;

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Act, do hereby revoke the said Proclamation, so far as relates to the said districts, and do proclaim and declare that the territory formerly comprised within such districts shall be and is hereby divided for the purposes of the said Act into districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:—

DUNEDIN DISTRICT,

comprises all that area bounded on the north by the Waihemo Creek, Blueskin Bay, and the ocean; on the east and south by Port Chalmers District, and by the ocean; and on the west by Kaikorai and Abbott’s