OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. X. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1866. No. 412

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

PROCLAMATION

Of Additional Regulations for the Destruction of Diseased Cattle, and for preventing the Spread of the Disease called Pleuro-pneumonia.

By His Honor Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by virtue of the powers in him vested in that behalf, His Honor John Hyde Harris, then being Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, dated the eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, make, publish, and proclaim certain Regulations for prohibiting the removal and transportation of cattle out of the several infected districts mentioned in the said Proclamation; And whereas it is expedient that the removal of cattle from the said several infected districts, and from other infected districts within the Province of Otago, should, in some cases be permitted;—Now therefore, by virtue of the powers delegated to me in this behalf by His Excellency the Governor, I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the said Province, do make, publish, and proclaim the following Regulations, and I do declare that the Regulations hereby made shall not in any wise affect that area within the Province of Otago, bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury; towards the east by the Waitaki River; towards the south by the Pacific Ocean; and towards the west by the Horse Range, Kakanui, and Hawkdun Mountains to Mount St. Bathan’s, thence by the Dunstan Mountains to the Clutha River, thence in a northerly direction by the Clutha River and the eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake to the Province of Canterbury; and I do declare that the Regulations hereby made and published shall, from and after the day hereafter prescribed as the day upon which the same shall take effect, be read with and form part of the said Regulations made and published on the said eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four; and I do hereby declare and prescribe that the Regulations hereby made shall take effect from and after the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

REGULATIONS.

13. Any person who is desirous of driving or removing, or of causing to be driven or removed, any cattle from or out of any infected district within the Province of Otago, shall first obtain, after inspection, a certificate from the Inspector, or one of the Inspectors, of the infected district from which it is proposed to remove such cattle, in the form of the Schedule hereto annexed, or to the effect thereof, which certificate shall be a sufficient authority to drive or remove such cattle from and out of such infected district at any time within the period specified in such certificate; provided that such certificate shall have no force or validity unless the cattle shall be so driven or removed within the time specified therein.

14. Every Inspector of an infected district, upon being required by notice in writing from any person, and served personally upon him, or left at such Inspector’s usual place of abode, and upon payment or tender to him of the fees, which by the 17th Regulation he is entitled to receive, shall attend at any place mentioned in such notice within his district forthwith after the receipt of such notice, or within a reasonable time thereafter, for the purpose of examining any cattle which it is proposed to drive or remove from or out of his district, with a view to decide whether he shall grant the certificate required by the 18th Regulation.

15. Every Inspector, after examining, when requested as aforesaid, any cattle which it is proposed to drive or remove from and out of his district, and after obtaining from the proprietor or person in charge of such cattle a written declaration that they have been free from disease for a period of six months prior to such examination, shall, if he be satisfied by such examination and declaration, or otherwise, that such cattle, or any of them, are free from disease, and have been so for six months, grant a certificate in the form contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, or to the like effect, which certificate shall be a sufficient authority for the removal of such cattle from the infected district at any time within the period prescribed by the said certificate: And it shall be lawful for any such Inspector to defer granting such certificate for any time not longer than fourteen days in cases where