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NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VOL. X. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1866. No. 432.
[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

[The following Proclamation is re-published from Gazette of 28th March last, No. 413, in consequence of the word "Tuapeka" having been omitted to be printed before the word "Waitahuna" in line 17.]

PROCLAMATION

Of Regulations for the Depasturing of Stock upon certain Lands within Proclaimed Gold Fields in the Province of Otago, and of the Appointment of Wardens.

By his Honor THOMAS DICK, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

I, THOMAS DICK, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, make, proclaim, and declare the Regulations following for the depasturing of stock upon Lands within proclaimed Gold Fields over which no pastoral lease or license exists, or the licenses for which have been cancelled or suspended, namely, upon the Gold Field Reserves within the Districts of Manuherikia, Clyde, Arrow, Upper Shotover, Tuapeka, Waitahuna, and Queenstown, in the said Province (that is to say)—

1. Every holder of a miner\'s right or of a business license shall be entitled to run two head of great cattle or horses free of charge.

2. All other cattle running in the before-mentioned Lands shall be assessed and paid for annually at the following rates, namely:—

For every head of large cattle......2s. 6d.
For every horse..........................2s. 6d.
For every head of small cattle......0s. 6d.

3. Every person desirous of running cattle on the said Lands shall first deposit with the Warden of the district an application in writing for a Depasturing License, which License the Warden is hereby authorised to grant in the form hereinafter mentioned; and every person depositing any such application shall pay therewith a fee of 2s. 6d.

4. Any person infringing these regulations by depasturing cattle on the before-mentioned Lands without a license, or depasturing cattle in excess of the number for which any such license has been issued, will be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten pounds (£10) for the first offence, and Twenty pounds (£20) for any second or subsequent offence, as provided by section 53 of the "Gold Fields Act, 1862."

5. A list of the Depasturing Licenses issued, and of the names of the Licensees, with the quantity and description of stock which each person is authorised to depasture, shall be posted in the Warden\'s Office, so that it can be inspected at any time by the public.

The following shall be the form of Depasturing License:—

District of
Date,
Whereas of has made application for a License to Depasture Stock upon the Gold Fields Reserve within the district of and has this day paid the sum of the said is hereby authorised to depasture (specify number) head of (specify great or small cattle or horses, as the case may be) upon the said Reserve, for the term of one year from the date hereof.

A.B., Warden.

And I, the said Thomas Dick, as such Superintendent as aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in this behalf, do hereby appoint the undermentioned officers of the Gold Fields to be Wardens of such reserves for the respective districts set opposite their names (that is to say)—

CHARLES WORTHINGTON, Esquire, R.M., Waitahuna.
EDWARD CROKER, Esquire, R.M., Gabriel\'s.
HENRY. WIROMAN ROBINSON, Esquire, R.M., Manuherikia, Dunstan, Clyde.