NEW ZEALAND.

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XII. DUNEDIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1868. No. 517.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of
The Province of
Otago.

Provincial Government Buildings,
Dunedin, 3rd December, 1867.

Present:
His Honor the Superintendent;
The Provincial Secretary and Treasurer;
The Secretary for Land and Works.

It being deemed expedient that a Commission should be appointed to inquire into the present state of the Gold Fields Department of Otago, with a view to its re-organisation, it is ordered that

St. JOHN BRANIGAN, Esq.,
RICHMOND BEETHAM, Esq., and
WILLIAM LAWRENCE SIMPSON, Esq.,

shall be, and they are hereby nominated and appointed to be Commissioners to visit and inspect the whole of the Gold Fields, and to report fully to the Executive Government of the said Province of Otago as to the general working of the Gold Fields Department of the said Province, and to make such recommendations as to its re-organisation, and as to reductions which may appear to them advisable in the staff of the said department.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of
The Province of
Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven.

Present:
His Honor the Superintendent,
The Provincial Secretary and Treasurer, and
The Secretary for Land and Works, Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by the tenth Section of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” it is enacted that if at any time it shall be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out amongst cattle in any district of the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, to declare that such district is infected within the meaning of the said Act, and from time to time to make such Regulations for destroying diseased cattle therein, and for prohibiting the removal or transportation of cattle from one part of the Colony to another, and for preventing the further spread of such disease, as to him should seem fit: And it is by the said Act also enacted that the Governor in Council may, by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the 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 whereas by “The Governor’s Delegation Act, 1867,” it is enacted that within any Province in which by any Act or Ordinance it is provided that the Superintendent shall, with the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time as occasion may require, to delegate to the Executive Government for the time being of such Province, subject or not to any restrictions or limitations as he may think fit, all or any of such powers as are or may be vested in the Governor, or Governor in Council, and which by any Act or Ordinance now in force, or by any Act passed during the then present Session of Parliament, may be delegated to the Superintendent of a Province, or to any person or persons by the Governor or the Governor in Council.