NEW ZEALAND

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OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XIII. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1869. No. 630.

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

James Macandrew,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

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, being also Members of the Provincial Council of the said Province.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick, Esquire, then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and 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), 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 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 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 thereof, open for sale or selection, in