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NEW ZEALAND.

OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.

Vol. XII. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1868. No. 549

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

[Several errors having occurred in the printing of this Proclamation in the Gazette of the 22nd April instant, No. 538, the same is re-published in a corrected form.]

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 sixty-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 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, 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 Government 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 Regulations have from time to time been made under the provisions of section 14 of the "Gold Fields Act 1862,"