liable to pay to the holder of such certificate or to the lessee (as the case may be) any portion of the cost of fencing such area any law or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding and a covenant to the effect of this Regulation may be inserted in any such certificate or lease and if not so inserted shall be implied therein.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Notice.

(Place and date.)

No.

To the Warden at

I hereby apply for a lease of land for agricultural purposes, situate at (here state the locality) and comprising acres or thereabouts, in accordance with the Agricultural Leases Regulations, of the day 18 made under "The Gold Fields Act 1866," and the Gold Fields Act Amendment Acts of 1867, 1868, and 1869.

Signature (name in full and address.)

The above application will be heard before me at

on the day of 18 A. B., Warden.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Province of Otago.

District of 18

Whereas the application of

for an Agricultural Lease of Crown Lands, situated at 18, and whereas I have decided that a lease of acres roods perches should be granted to the said applicant: This is to certify that the said

is hereby authorised to take possession of the said Land and the same to hold, use, and enjoy, subject to the terms and conditions specified in the Agricultural Leases Regulations in force at the date of the issue hereof.

N.B.—This certificate is to be exchanged for a lease when the said lease is ready for his acceptance, and will become void if the said is notified that such lease will not be granted to him.

Not Transferable.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Application to enter upon Private Lands.

To the Warden at and to

I hereby apply for permission to enter upon the land held under (lease or certificate, as the case may be), by (here insert the name of the holder of the land here referred to), situated at for the purpose of searching for gold.

(Signature of the Applicant.)

This application will be heard before me at

on the day of 18. All parties interested in the matter of the above application, are requested to give their attendance on the day and date and at the place last above mentioned.

Warden.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

NOTICE.

Under the Agricultural Leases Regulations.

To Mr.

Take notice that unless you attend personally or by attorney at my office at within thirty days from the service of this notice and execute Lease No. issued in your favor under the Agricultural Leases Regulations the said Lease will be returned to the Government for cancellation.

Warden.

Warden’s Office, 18

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 thereof.

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 1867 constitute and appoint all the 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 Gold Field so proclaimed as aforesaid have from time to time been altered. And whereas by the forty-second section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866” it is provided that the Governor may by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette or in the Gazette of the Province in which any Gold Field is situate Proclaim and declare the exceptions to be made from leases and licenses granted under the said Act and also the covenants clauses provisos conditions and agreements applicable to such leases and licenses respectively as he may in like manner from time to time rescind alter or vary the same. 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 it is expedient to declare the exceptions to be made from Agricultural Leases granted under the said Act and the covenants clauses provisoes conditions and agreements applicable to such Leases: And also to declare the exceptions to be made from Gold Mining Leases granted under the said Act and the covenants clauses provisoes conditions and agreements applicable to such leases: Now therefore His Honor James Macandrew Superintendent of the Province of Otago by