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ment of the Province of Otago have determined to
cancel the said lease as to so much and such part of
the lands held under the same as are comprised within
the area hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, W. A. Tolmie, Deputy-Superinten-
dent 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 be-
half, do hereby cancel the said lease, in so far as the
lands comprised within the area hereinafter described
are affected by the said lease, but no further or other-
wise (that is to say)—

All that area in the Province of Otago containing by
admeasurement fifty (50) acres more or less situate in
the Upper Taieri District being section numbered six
(6) on the map of the said district; bounded towards
the north-west by Crown Lands three thousand and
thirty-four (3034) links towards the north-east by
Crown Lands one thousand six hundred and forty-
seven (1647) links towards the south-east by Crown
Lands three thousand and thirty-four (3034) links and
towards the south-west by Crown Lands one thousand
six hundred and forty-seven (1647) links.

Given under my hand, and issued under the
Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at
Dunedin, in presence of Donald Reid, George
Duncan, and John L. Gillies, Esquires, mem-
bers of the Executive Council of the said
Province, being also members of the Pro-
vincial Council thereof, this second day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy.

(s.) W. A. TOLMIE,
Deputy-Superintendent.

D. REID,
GEO. DUNCAN,
JOHN L. GILLIES,
Members of the Executive Council
of the Province of Otago, and of
the Provincial Council thereof.

W. A. TOLMIE,
Deputy-Superintendent
of the Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Honor the Deputy-Superintendent,
DONALD REID,
J. L. GILLIES, and
GEORGE DUNCAN, 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 Superin-
tendent 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 hun-
dred and sixty-seven constitute and appoint all the terri-
tory therein described (including amongst other lands the
land described in the Schedule hereto) 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
of the said Province shall in the administration of the
government thereof act by and with the advice and con-
sent 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 hun-
dred and ninth section of the said Act may be delegated
by the Governor in Council and in like manner to re-
voke any such delegation: And whereas by an Ordinance
of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Pro-
vince of Otago intituled the "Executive Council Ordi-
nance 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
the provisions delegated unto the Executive Govern-
ment 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
Clause forty-nine of the "Gold Fields Act 1866" it is
provided that if a Depasturing Lease or License shall
not at the date of the passing of the said Act have
been granted or shall have been or shall be cancelled
over any Crown Lands within a Gold Field it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time by procla-
mation to declare such lands or any part thereof open
for sale or selection in sections of such size and form
as he may determine and any lands so proclaimed may
thereafter be sold at a like price and subject to the like
terms and conditions or as near thereto as may be
as Crown Lands of the same class not within a
Gold Field and it shall not be necessary to withdraw
lands from the operation of the said Act for the pur-
poses aforesaid: And whereas at the date of the passing
of the "Gold Fields Act 1866" all Depasturing
Licenses hitherto existing over the Crown Lands speci-
fied in the Schedule hereto have been cancelled: And
whereas the Executive Government of the Province of
Otago have determined to open up for sale the Crown
Lands specified in the Schedule hereto in one section
of the size and form in which the same has already
been surveyed and as the same is now laid off and deli-
neated in the maps of the Chief Surveyor of the Pro-
vince of Otago relative thereto: Now therefore His
Honor W. A. Tolmie Deputy-Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Otago by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said Province doth hereby
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 the said Executive
Government in this behalf proclaim and declare that
from and after the day of the date hereof the Crown
Lands specified in the Schedule hereto shall be open
for sale in one section of the size and form in which
the same have already been surveyed and as the same
are now laid off and delineated on the map in the office
of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Otago relative
thereto.

THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO:

All that area in the Province of Otago containing by
admeasurement fifty (50) acres more or less situate in
Upper Taieri District being section numbered six (6)