✨ Proclamation and Cancellation of Lease
NEW ZEALAND.
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. XIV. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1870. No. 671.
PROCLAMATION.
Cancellation of Lease to Depasture Stock on certain Crown Lands in the Province of Otago.
By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, 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 license or lease as regards the whole or any part of such lands: And whereas the provisions of the said Act shall have been held under license or lease for the purposes aforesaid and it is expedient that the same should be cancelled;
AND WHEREAS by the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act it is provided that the Governor in Council may 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, 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 the said lands hereinafter described are Crown Lands, subject to be dealt with under the provisions of the said sixteenth section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866;” and the said lands are now, or lately were, held in occupation by Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Esquire, runholder, under a lease for depasturing purposes, issued under the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866,” and bearing date the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven;
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1870, No 671
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🗺️ Cancellation of Lease to Depasture Stock on certain Crown Lands in the Province of Otago
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyLease cancellation, Crown Lands, Gold Fields Act 1866, Depasturing, Otago
- Edward Wingfield Humphreys (Esquire), Leaseholder affected by cancellation
- James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago