NEW ZEALAND

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OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XIV. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1870. No. 704.

PROCLAMATION.

Cancellation of License 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 16th 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 should 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 by the “Otago Gold Field,” and whereas by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, bearing date 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, 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 “Goldfields 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 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 Messrs James Bartholomew Schlotel and Edward John Schlotel, under a lease for Depasturing purposes, issued under the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1858.”