STOCK WITHIN THE SAID DISTRICT.

... until a Board of Wardens shall be duly elected for the said district.

THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.

All that area situate in the province of Otago, containing by estimation two thousand five hundred (2500) acres more or less, being part of Run numbered 326 on the map of the south-eastern districts of the Province of Otago aforesaid: bounded towards the north by the remaining portion of Run 326; towards the east by Argyle Burn; towards the south by Run 254B; and towards the west by the Waikaia river.

Also all that area situate in the Province of Otago, containing by estimation five thousand (5000) acres more or less, being part of Run numbered 254B on the map of the south-eastern districts of the said Province: bounded towards the north by Run 326; towards the east by Run 253; towards the south by the remaining portion of Run 254 n.; and towards the west by the Waikaia river.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, in presence of Donald Reid, George M’Lean, and John Lillie Gillies, Esquires, three of the Members of the Executive Council of the said Province, being also Members of the Provincial Council thereof, this eleventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

D. REID,
Geo. M’LEAN,
J. L. GILLIES,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.

Otago, this tenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

GEORGE M’LEAN,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

Cancellation of Leases to Depasture Stock on certain Crown Lands in the Province of Otago.

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

WHEREAS by the 16th section of the Gold Fields Act 1866, it is enacted that when any Gold Mine or Gold Field shall be discovered and proclaimed upon any Crown Lands, which at the date of the passing of the said Act shall have been held under license or lease, for depasturing purposes, it should be lawful for the Governor at his discretion to cancel the license or lease under which such land shall have been held in occupation, as regards the whole or any part of the lands so held under such license or lease, or with the concurrence of the licensee, or lessee, to suspend such lease or license as regards the whole or any part of such lands: And 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 hereinafter described, 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 may 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 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 the said lands hereinafter described are Crown Lands, subject to be dealt with under the provisions of the said sixteenth section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” and the said lands are now, or lately were, held in occupation by Mr. Charles Lambert Swanson, under a lease for Depasturing purposes, issued under the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866,” and bearing date the twenty-seventh day of February, 1867: And whereas the Executive Government of the Province of Otago hath deemed it expedient that the said lease should be cancelled, as regards the land herein described;

Now therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, in pursuance of the powers in me vested, do hereby, in exercise of the powers so delegated as aforesaid, cancel the said lease as regards the lands hereinafter described.

PROCLAMATION.

Road District of Catlin’s River formed.

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

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the “Otago Roads Ordinance 1865,” it is amongst other things enacted that, until otherwise provided, pursuant to the provisions of the said Ordinance, there should be sixty-one Districts, which should be named as specified in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed, marked B: And it is also by the said Ordinance provided that it should be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the Otago General Road Board, from time to time, by proclamation in the Gazette, to alter, vary, diminish, or enlarge the boundaries of any or all of such districts, and to increase the number of districts by forming and naming new districts:

And whereas it is expedient to form a new Road District to be named the Catlin’s River Road District;

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Otago General Road Board, do hereby proclaim and declare that the area bounded as described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from the day of the date hereof, be constituted a Road District, and shall be named the Catlin’s River Road District.

SCHEDULE.

Catlin’s River Road District comprises all that area situate in the Province of Otago, bounded towards the north-east by the ranges and the south-western boundary of the Aburnri Road District, extending from the western boundary of Catlin’s Hundred to the Ocean; towards the south by the Oam and Catlin’s River, and towards the west by the western boundary of Catlin’s Hundred.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, this eleventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.