✨ Diseased Cattle Act Proclamation
In Council, and in like manner to revoke any such delegation: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the "Executive Council Ordinance, 1861," it is provided that the Superintendent of the said Province shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council: And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to the Executive Government of the Province of Otago all such powers within the said Province as are by the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," and the "Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, and by virtue thereof may be delegated to have and exercise such powers within the said Province, subject to the provisions of "The Governor’s Delegation Act, 1867":
Now, therefore, His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, doth hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province of Otago in this behalf, declare that from and after the twenty-third day of January next, the area of land hereafter described shall be deemed an Infected District within the meaning and for the purposes of the said "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861":
That is to say:—All that area within the Province of Otago bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury from Awarua Bay to the eastern shore of the Wanaka Lake; thence by the said shore and the Clutha River to the Dunstan Mountains; thence by the Dunstan Mountains to Mount Saint Bathans; thence by the Hawkdun Mountains, the Kakanui Mountains, and the Horse Ranges to the Ocean; thence by the Ocean to Catlin’s River; thence by Catlin’s River and the northern boundaries of Runs numbered respectively 129, 258, 251, and 88 to the Mataura River, and by the Mataura River and the northern boundary line of the Province of Southland to the Manipori Lake; thence by the Waiau River to the Ocean; and thence towards the south and west by the Ocean to Awarua Bay, the starting-point: And doth hereby further declare that the Regulations under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," proclaimed by Proclamation bearing date the third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and published in the Government Gazette of the said Province of Otago numbered 453, on the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, shall be in force in the said District hereby declared an Infected District.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand,
Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.
Otago Provincial Gazette 1868, No 517
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Declaration of Infected District under Diseased Cattle Act
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🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesDiseased Cattle Act, Infected District, Otago, Delegation of Powers
- James Macandrew (Esquire), Decreed Infected District
- Alex. Willis, Clerk of the Executive Council