13. The Superintendent of Otago shall from time to time, as occasion may require, appoint proper persons to be called Inspectors and Assistant Inspectors, to carry out and enforce these Regulations in the Districts for which they are appointed.

14. The Assistant Inspectors shall have all the powers and authorities conferred upon Inspectors of Districts, except the power and authority conferred by the second of these Regulations, to seize and destroy, or to be caused to be seized and destroyed, infected or diseased cattle, or cattle deemed to be infected or diseased, and except also the power or authority to grant any certificate recommending compensation for the destruction of such cattle, and it is hereby expressly declared that with the said exceptions, wherever in these Regulations the word Inspector occurs, it is to be deemed and construed to include in its meaning the words Assistant Inspector. Provided always that no order of any Assistant Inspector or Assistant Inspectors shall override or render void any order or notice of an Inspector.

15. Any person who is desirous of driving or removing, or of causing to be driven or removed, any cattle from or out of the said infected district, shall first obtain, after inspection, a certificate from the Inspector, or one of the Inspectors, of the said infected district 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.

16. Any Inspector upon being required by notice in writing, containing the number and kind, description and marks, and brands of the cattle to be inspected 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 19th Regulation he is entitled to receive, shall attend at any place mentioned in such notice within the said 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 the said district, with a view to decide whether he shall grant the certificate required by the 17th Regulation.

17. 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 during the immediately preceding 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 he suspects that such cattle have incurred risk of infection, and such Inspector may, by inquiry, and such other means as he thinks fit, satisfy himself whether there is reason to believe that such cattle are infected.

18. The Inspector’s certificate for the driving or removal of cattle out of the said infected district shall be in the form contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, or to the like effect, and shall authorise the removal of the cattle in the certificate specified within a time to be fixed therein.

19. The Inspector, provided he is not a salaried Government Officer, shall be entitled to fees at the rate of Two Pounds per diem, during the time he may be employed, and every Inspector shall be entitled to travelling expenses at the rate of one shilling and sixpence per mile one way, for granting certificates for the removal of such cattle out of the district, which fees shall be paid before inspection by the person applying for such examination and certificate as aforesaid.

20. No Penalty to be inflicted under these Regulations shall exceed the sum of five hundred pounds.

SCHEDULE.

I do hereby certify that I have authorised (name, residence, and description of owner of Cattle, or person having charge thereof,) to drive or remove the undermentioned Cattle from and out of the Infected District of ( ).

This Certificate to be in force for ( ) days from the date hereof.

Date......

A. B.,
Inspector of Cattle ( ).

Given under my hand, and issued under the (L.S.) Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this third day of December, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-six.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
JOHN MOUAT,
Provincial Secretary.

HAVELock CEMETERY MANAGERS.—His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has been pleased to appoint the following persons—

MR. JOHN TANTON
MR. JOHN NORMAN
MR. JOHN EDIE
MR. DANIEL CLARKE
MR. JOHN M’HATTIE
MR. WILLIAM BOLT
MR. JAMES DUKE

—to be managers of the Reserve set aside for the purpose of a Public Cemetery in the town of Havelock, by the “Cemetery Reserves Ordinance, 1864.”

JOHN MOUAT,
Provincial Secretary.

1st December, 1866.

EDUCATIONAL MEETINGS.—Notice is hereby given, that the Annual Statutory Meeting of the owners and occupiers of land and householders in each Educational District, established under the provisions of the “Education Ordinance, 1864,” for the election of a new School Committee, will be held upon Monday, the 14th day of January, 1867, at 7 o’clock p.m., at the following mentioned places respectively, viz:—

At Dunedin, in the Middle District School-house, between York Place and Dowling Street.

At East Clutha, in the Main District School-house.

At Tokomairiro, in the Main District School-house, Milton.