the power and authority delegated to and vested in me in this behalf, make, proclaim, and declare the regulations aftermentioned for the Depasturing of Stock upon Lands within the proclaimed “Otago Gold Field,” 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, 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 half-yearly, and paid for at the following rates, namely :

For every head of great cattle... 1s. 3d.

For every head of small cattle... 3d.

The words “great cattle” shall be construed to mean horned cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male and female, with their weaned offspring above six months of age ; and the words “small cattle” shall be construed to mean sheep and goats, male and female, with their weaned offspring.

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 Shillings per head for every head of cattle so depastured, as provided by Section XV. of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866.”

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.

6. Any person depasturing swine on the before-mentioned lands without a license will be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for the first offence, and twenty pounds for any second or subsequent offence.

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 Field 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 half 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 Field to be Wardens of such Reserves for the respective districts set opposite their names (that is to say)—

EDWARD CROKER, Esquire, R.M., Gabriel’s and Waitahuna.

HENRY WIRGMAN ROBINSON, Esquire, R.M., Manuherikia, Dunstan, Clyde.

LOWTHER BROAD, Esquire, R.M., Arrow, Cardrona.

RICHMOND BEETHAM, Esquire, R.M., Queenstown, Upper Shotover.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, this ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

(L.S.)

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

By his Honor’s command,

JULIUS VOGEL,
For Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION,

Exempting Certain Districts from the Regulations for Depasturing Stock in the Province of Otago.

Proclaimed and Declared in the Proclamation of even date herewith.

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

WHEREAS I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did, upon the day of the date hereof, by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority delegated to and vested in me in that behalf, make, proclaim, and declare the Regulations in the said Proclamation contained for the depasturing of Stock upon land within the proclaimed Otago Gold Field;

And whereas it is expedient to exempt the Districts aftermentioned from the said Regulations ;—Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, as such Superintendent as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the date hereof, the Districts hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) Arrow, Cardrona, Queenstown, and Shotover, in the Province of Otago, shall be exempt from the said Regulations made and published as aforesaid, with the exception of all those pieces or parcels of land hereinafter described, (that is to say)—

First, All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement eight thousand six hundred and seventy-eight (8678) acres, more or less, situate in the Interior district, being portion of Run originally numbered 386, and now known as Run numbered one (1), bounded by a line commencing at the mouth “One-mile Creek,” thence along that creek to its source, thence by a line in a northerly direction to the watershed, thence along the watershed to Ben Lomond Peak, thence along the watershed in a northerly direction to the junction of Moonlight Creek with Moke Creek, thence along Moonlight Creek to the Shotover River, thence along the Shotover River to the western boundary of block II, Shotover District, thence along the western boundary of the said block to block I., thence along the western boundary of the said block I, to the township of Frankton, thence along the northern boundary of Frankton to the Wakatip Lake, thence along the Wakatip Lake to Queenstown, thence round the northern boundary of Queenstown and along the Wakatip Lake to One-mile Creek, the starting point.

Second, All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement seventeen thousand and eighteen (17,018) acres, more or less, situate in the Interior district, being portion of Run originally numbered 356, and now known as Run numbered ten (10), bounded by the Shotover River from the bridge near Arthur’s Point to Deep Creek, thence along Deep Creek to its source, thence by a straight line to the Coronet, thence by a line to the source of Bush Creek, thence along Bush Creek to the foot of the range near Arrowtown, thence by a line in a westerly direction along the foot of the range to the bridge near Arthur’s Point.

Third, All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement nineteen thousand four hundred and eight (19,408) acres, more or less, situate in the Interior District, being portion of Run originally numbered 340, and now known as Run numbered eleven (11), bounded by a line commencing at the