First Schedule.

The Sections of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," containing the provisions of the said Ordinance, extended to and applicable within the Incorporated Town of Balclutha, that is to say, Sections numbered 6 to 11, both inclusive; Sections numbered 13 to 27, both inclusive; Sections numbered 29 to 97, both inclusive; Sections numbered 99 to 113, both inclusive, and Sections numbered 116 and 122 respectively.

Second Schedule.

Sections of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," applicable to the Incorporated Town of Balclutha, with respective modifications set opposite the numbers of the Sections.

Third Schedule.

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Balclutha, as delineated on the Board Maps of the said Town, deposited in the Survey Office in Dunedin, in the said Province.

All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement five hundred and sixty-eight (568) acres one (1) rood and twenty-nine (29) poles more or less being the Municipality of Balclutha formerly known as Sections numbered respectively one (1) two (2) three (3) four (4) five (5) six (6) seven (7) and eight (8) Block thirty-five (XXXV) Clutha District and part of Section numbered forty-four (44) Block one (1) Hillend District and Crown Lands bounded towards the north by the Clutha River three thousand five hundred (2500) links towards the west by Black numbered II Hillend District one thousand three hundred (1300) links towards the north by other part of the said Section numbered 44 four thousand four hundred (2400) links towards the north-east by other part of the said Section numbered 44 four thousand (4000) links and four thousand two hundred (4200) links also by the Clutha River one thousand two hundred (1200) links towards the south-east by Section numbered 43 Block I Hillend District and a road line one thousand two hundred (1200) links towards the south and south-east by the Clutha River ten thousand two hundred (10200) links towards the south-west by a road line two thousand five hundred and twenty (2520) links and towards the north-west by Section numbered 9 Block XXXV Clutha District and a road line five thousand six hundred and ten (5610) links be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Fourth Schedule.

East Ward.

Comprises all that area in the Town of Balclutha situated to the east of the Clutha River.

North Ward.

Comprises all that area bounded towards the north by the Clutha River; towards the south-east by a line along the centre of the Main South Road; and towards the north-west by Section numbered 9, Block XXXV, Clutha District and a road line.

South Ward.

Comprises the remainder of the Township of Balclutha.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

(LS.)

W. A. Tolmie,
Deputy-Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
D. Ren, Provincial Secretary.

Proclamation.

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

By His Honor W. A. Tolmie, Deputy-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, 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.