✨ Proclamation on Crown Lands
NEW ZEALAND.
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XIV. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1870. No. 653.
PROCLAMATION.
Setting apart Crown Lands in the Otago Gold Field for the purpose of granting Agricultural Leases.
By his Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in Council.
WHEREAS by the 33rd section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is enacted amongst other things that it shall be lawful for the Governor to cause Crown Lands situate within a Gold Field to be selected and set apart for the purpose of granting Agricultural Leases thereon and therefor:
And whereas Thomas Dick, Esquire, then the 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, including amongst other lands the lands hereinafter described to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” to be called the “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 may 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, to have, hold, and exercise the said powers within the said Province of Otago:
And whereas the said lands hereinafter described are Crown Lands, subject to be dealt with under the provisions of the said 33rd section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” and it is deemed expedient to set the same apart for the purpose of granting agricultural leases thereon and therefor:
Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Esquire, 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 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 any and every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the lands comprised within the two several areas hereinafter described...
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1870, No 653
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🗺️ Setting apart Crown Lands for Agricultural Leases
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey23 February 1870
Crown Lands, Agricultural Leases, Otago Gold Field, Proclamation
- James Macandrew (Esquire), Superintendent of Otago
- Thomas Dick (Esquire), Former Superintendent of Otago
- James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago