NEW ZEALAND.

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XIV. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1870. No. 655.

MEETING OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

In pursuance of the power and authority vested in me in that behalf, I do hereby fix and proclaim that the twenty-seventh Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago shall be held within the Provincial Council Hall, Dunedin, in the said Province, and shall commence upon Tuesday, the nineteenth day of April, 1870, at 12 o’clock noon; and the Members of the said Council are hereby warned to give their attendance at such time and place accordingly.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province, this eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

(J.s.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

D. Reid,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

Cancellation of Lease to Depasture Stock on certain Crown Lands in the Province of Otago.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in Council.

WHEREAS by the sixteenth section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is enacted that when any Gold Mine or Gold Field shall be discovered and proclaimed upon any Crown Lands, which at the date of the passing of the said Act shall have been held under license or lease for depasturing purposes, it shall be lawful for the Governor, at his discretion, to cancel the license or lease under which such land shall have been held in occupation, as regards the whole or any part of the lands so held under such license or lease, or with the concurrence of the licensee, or lessee, to suspend such lease or license as regards the whole or any part of such lands: 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 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 “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, and 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,” 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 the Executive Council of the said Province.