NEW ZEALAND.

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OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.

Published by Authority

Vol. XII. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1868. No. 538
[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of
the Province of
Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the
15th day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

Present:
His Honor the Superintendent;
The Provincial Secretary and Treasurer;
The Secretary of Land and Works;
Arthur John Burns; and
John Hughes, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province
of Otago.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick, Esquire, then Superintendent
of the Province of Otago, by virtue
and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested
in him in that behalf, did, by Proclamation in the
Government Gazette of the said Province, bearing date
twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-seven, constitute and appoint all the
territory therein described to be a Gold Field, under the
provisions of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” to be called
“Otago Gold Field:” And whereas by “The Gold
Fields Act Amendment Act, 1867,” it is enacted
that within any Province in which by any Act or Ordinance,
it is provided that the Superintendent shall, in 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 under 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
shall think fit, all or any of such powers vested in the
Governor or the Governor in Council by the “Gold Fields
Act, 1866,” as under or by virtue of the one hundred
and ninth section of the said Act may be delegated by
the Governor 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 Ordi-

nance, 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, and in pursuance
of the power and authority for that purpose vested in
him by the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” and subject to
its provisions, delegated unto the Executive Govern-
ment for the time being of the Province of Otago all
such powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in
Council by the said last-mentioned Act, as under or by
virtue of the one hundred and ninth section of the said
last-mentioned Act may be delegated by the Governor
in Council, to have, hold and exercise the said powers
within the said Province of Otago: And whereas by
clause XI of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council,
subject to the provisions of the said Act, from time to
time to make Regulations for any Gold Field, and to
alter, amend, or revoke the same, Rules and Regula-
tions have from time to time been made under the provisions
of section 14 of the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,”
and preserved as Rules and Regulations under the
“Gold Fields Act, 1866,” by the 113th section of the
said last mentioned Act, until annulled or revoked:
And whereas the said Rules and Regulations so made
as aforesaid have not been annulled or revoked under
the said “Gold Field Act, 1866,” but are still in force
on the Otago Gold Fields: And whereas it is expedient
to revoke the said Rules and Regulations, so made
as aforesaid, and to make other Regulations in lieu
thereof:

Now, therefore, His Honor James Macandrew, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Province, and by virtue and in exercise of the
powers delegated to the Executive Government of the
said Province of Otago in this behalf, doth hereby
order that all rules and regulations whatsoever, made
under the provisions of the said 14th Section of the
said “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” and now in force on the
Otago Gold Field, under the provisions of the 113th
Section of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” shall, from
and after the first day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, be annulled and revoked, and