NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XIII. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1869. No. 628.

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

James Macandrew,
Superintendent,
of the Province
of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the 21st day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Present:

His Honor the Superintendent,
Donald Reid,
George M’Lean, and
George Duncan, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, being also Members of the Provincial Council thereof.

Council thereof.

WHEREAS by the third section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is enacted that it should 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 might 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, have 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 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 the 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 Executive Government of the Province of Otago have determined further to alter and extend its