[Republished from last week's Gazette.]

Thomas Fraser,
Deputy-Superintendent
of the Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the
20th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Present:
His Honor THE DEPUTY-SUPERINTENDENT,
Donald Reid,
George M'Lean, and
George Duncan, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of
Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick, Esquire, then Superintendent
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 hun-
dred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint all the
territory therein described (including amongst other
Lands the Lands described in the Schedule hereto,
comprising certain Sections in the Dunedin and East
Taieri District, in the said Province of Otago) 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 Super-
intendent shall in the administration of the Govern-
ment 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 Pro-
vince 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 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 XLIX. 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
their of, 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 Licences heretofore existing over the Crown
Lands mentioned in the Schedule hereto had been can-
cancelled: And whereas the Executive Government of
the Province of Otago have determined to open up for
sale the said Crown Lands mentioned in the said
Schedule in Sections of the size and form in which the
same have already been surveyed, and as the same are
laid off and delineated on the maps of the Chief Sur-
veyor of the Province of Otago relative thereto:

Now, therefore, His Honor Thomas Fraser, Deputy-
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 in this behalf by his Excellency the
Governor of New Zealand in Council, under the
authority of “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act
1867,” and of any and every other power in anywise
enabling the said Executive Government in this behalf
proclaim and declare, that from and after the day of the
date hereof, all the Crown Lands mentioned in the
Schedule hereto shall be open for sale in Sections of
the size and form in which such lands have already
been surveyed, and as the same are laid off and delin-
eated on the map of the Province of Otago relative
thereto.

The Schedule above referred to.

All that area, situate in the Province of Otago, con-
taining by admeasurement one thousand two hundred
and seventy-six (1276) acres, two (2) roods, more or
less, comprising Sections 6, 7, 12, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24 and 25; also parts of Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14,
15, 17, 18 and 19, Block II, Dunedin and East Taieri
District, as the said Sections were originally surveyed;
bounded towards the north by the northern bound-
ary of the East Taieri Hundred; towards the east by
Block III, Dunedin and East Taieri District; towards
the south by a road line, and towards the west by the
Taieri River.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

[Republished from last week’s Gazette.]

Thomas Fraser,
Deputy-Superintendent
of the Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the
20th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Present:
His Honor THE DEPUTY-SUPERINTENDENT,
Donald Reid,
George M’Lean, and
George Duncan, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of
Otago, and also of the Provincial Council thereof.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick, Esquire, then Superintend-
ent 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, 1867, constitute and appoint all the
territory therein described (including amongst other
Lands the Lands described in the Schedule hereto,
and comprising certain Sections in the Town of Naseby),
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...