James Macandrew, }
Superintendent. }

ORDER IN COUNCIL,

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Present :

His Honor the Superintendent,
Donald Reid,
George M’Lean,
George Duncan,
John Mouat, and
John Lillie Gillies, Esquires,

Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and also of the Provincial Council thereof.

WHEREAS by Proclamation bearing date the twelfth day of February last, made by His Honor James Macandrew, 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 that behalf, under the provisions of the Gold Fields Act, 1866, certain regulations were made for the Otago Gold Field, prescribing the mode in which application might be made for leases of land for agricultural purposes: And whereas it is expedient to add an additional Regulation to the Regulations so proclaimed as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Honor, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, doth, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the Province of Otago in this behalf, hereby make the Regulation following in addition to the said Regulations proclaimed as aforesaid, on the said twelfth day of February last:

REGULATION.

§3. Applicants for Agricultural Leases must be of full age, and must apply in person, or by a duly authorised Agent.

Every application for an Agricultural Lease must be made by the applicant in person, or by an agent thereunto authorised in writing by the applicant, and the Warden shall not entertain any application unless he is satisfied that the same is made by or on behalf of a person resident in the Province of Otago of the full age of twenty-one (21) years, and legally capable of being bound by the contract into which it is thereby proposed to enter.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

James Macandrew, }
Superintendent, }
of the Province of Otago. }

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the 7th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Present :

His Honor the Superintendent,
Donald Reid, and
George M’Lean, Esquires,

Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, being also Members of the Provincial Council thereof.

WHEREAS by the third section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation, to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the said Act, and the limits of such Gold Field from time to time to alter, as occasion may require: 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 29th 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 the Otago Gold Field”: And whereas the limits of the said “Otago Gold Field,” as described in the said Proclamation, has been from time to time altered and extended: 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 to 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 Executive Government of the Province of Otago have determined further to alter and extend the limits of the said Otago Gold Field, so as to include therein the area of land hereinafter described:

Now, therefore, His Honor James Macandrew, 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, and of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” doth hereby proclaim and declare that all that area of land hereinafter described shall henceforth be included in, and form part of, the Otago Gold Field (that is to say)—

All that area situate in the Province of Otago, containing by estimation one hundred and forty-five thousand acres, more or less, bounded by a line proceeding from the boundary of the present Gold Field along the southern boundary of Run 28 and the Otakaik Stream to the Waitaki River; thence to the eastern boundary of the Marawhenua Hundred; thence along the said eastern boundary of the Marawhenua Hundred and the northern and western boundaries of the Kakanui Hundred, and a direct line from the south-west corner of the said Kakanui Hundred to Kakanui Peak; and thence northerly along the boundary of the present Gold Field to the starting point.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by MILLS, DICK & Co., of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.