SCHEDULE H.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

In conformity to the 29th section of "The Gold Fields Act 1859" and to the Regulations made under that Act and the Gold Fields Acts Amendment Acts of 1867, 1868 and 1869 for the granting of Leases for Gold Mining purposes within the Province of Otago it is hereby notified that it is intended to grant a lease for Gold Mining purposes of Crown lands to the applicant specified in the annexed Schedule unless there shall be valid objections against granting such lease.

Objections to granting such lease stating the grounds of objection must be made in writing and lodged with the Warden at ... on or before the ... day of ...

Copy of the application made and plans annexed may be seen at the Warden’s Office at ...

Given under my hand at ... this ... day of ... one thousand eight hundred and ...

Warden.

I, __, being one of the lessees in the above-mentioned lease do hereby make oath and say—

1. That the average number of men employed on the leased ground and in connection therewith from the ... of ... to the ... of ... has been ...

2. That the amount of capital expended to date in and upon and in connection with the leased ground as above is, £...

Sworn before me at ... the day of ... 18 ... Warden.

AGRICULTURAL LEASES REGULATIONS.

James Macandrew,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Present:
His Honor the Superintendent,
Donald Reid,
George Duncan, 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 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 to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the "Gold Fields Act 1866" to be called Otago Gold Field: And whereas the limits of the said Gold Field have from time to time been altered;

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 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 the thirty-ninth section of "The Gold Fields Act 1866" it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make regulations prescribing the mode in which applications may be made for leases of land for agricultural purposes the quantity of land not exceeding fifty acres which shall and may be granted in a lease in any particular block, the amount of deposit to be paid by any applicant therefor and by any objector thereto the terms and conditions upon which such leases may be held, occupied, assigned, transferred, forfeited, and cancelled the amount of rent payable therefor and the times and places of payment, the conditions upon and the manner in which entry to search for gold or for any metal or mineral upon any land so leased may be authorised and the terms and conditions upon which holders of miners’ rights may be permitted to mine upon land the lease for which shall have been determined on account of its auriferous character, and such regulations from time to time to amend, alter, and revoke;

And whereas James Macandrew Esquire Superintendent of the Province of Otago by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Province did by Proclamation dated the twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight and published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette (No. 525) on the fourteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight make certain regulations for the purposes specified in the said thirty-ninth section of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said Regulations so made as aforesaid and all other Regulations made under the provisions of the said thirty-ninth section of the said "Gold Fields Act 1866" and now in force on the Otago Gold Field;

Now therefore His Honor James Macandrew Superintendent of the Province of Otago by and with the advice 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 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 every other power in anywise enabling him in this behalf doth hereby order that the said Regulations of the said twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight and all Regulations altering or amending the same and all Rules and Regulations whatsoever made under the provisions of the said thirty-ninth section of the said "Gold Fields Act 1866" and now in force on the Otago Gold Field except in so far as the same respectively revoke any former regulations shall from and after the day of the date hereof be revoked and with the advice and consent aforesaid and by virtue...