NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XII. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1868. No. 550.

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

PROCLAMATION.

Opening Arrowtown, in the Province of Otago, for the purposes Sale.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in Council.

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 the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint all the territory therein described (including amongst other lands the lands described in the Schedule hereto, and comprising Arrowtown) to be a Gold Field, under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act 1866” to be called the “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 LXIX of the Gold Fields Act 1866, it is provided, that if a Depasturing Lease or License shall not, at the date of the passing of the said Act, have been granted, or shall have been or shall be cancelled over any Crown Lands within a Gold Field, it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation, to declare such lands, or any part thereof, open for sale or selection, in Sections of such size and form as he may determine, and any lands so proclaimed may thereafter be sold at a like price, and subject to the like terms and conditions, or as near thereto as may be as Crown Lands of the same class not within a Gold Field, and it shall not be necessary to withdraw lands from the operation of the said Act for the purposes aforesaid: And whereas at the date of the passing of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” all Depasturing Licenses heretofore existing over the Crown Lands situated in Arrowtown, as the same are described in the Schedule hereto had been cancelled: And whereas the Executive Government of the Province of Otago have determined to open up for sale the Crown Lands situate and being within Arrowtown aforesaid, in Sections of the size and form in which the same have already been surveyed, and as the same are laid off and delineated