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affected by the said lease, but no further or otherwise
(that is to say)—
All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by
estimation two thousand five hundred (2,500) acres,
more or less, being part of Run 240, and situate in the
Lake Wanaka and Cardrona Survey Districts: bounded
towards the north by an east and west line intersecting
a point one hundred and fifteen chains due north of
Mount Barker Geodesical Station; towards the east by
a north and south line intersecting a point thirty-two
chains east of Mount Barker Geodesical Station afore-
said; towards the south-east by a line about sixteen
chains to the south-east of, and parallel to the Main
Road from Cardrona to Cromwell; towards the south-
west by the remainder of the said Run 240, about
twenty-eight chains, and towards the north-west by the
Cardrona River.

Given under my hand and issued under the
Public Seal of the Province of Otago, in
presence of Donald Reid and George
Duncan, Esquires, two of the Members of
the Executive Council of the said Pro-
vince, being also Members of the Provin-
cail Council thereof, this thirty-first
day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

(L.S.) D. REID,
Geo. DUNCAN,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of
Otago, and of the Provincial Council thereof.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the
twenty eighth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.

Present:
HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT,
Donald Reid, 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 Go-
vernment 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 ter-
ritory therein described (including amongst other lands
the lands 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
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 to delegate to the Executive Govern-
ment 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 hundred and ninth section
of the said Act may be delegated by the Governor in
Council and in like manner to revoke any such delega-
tion. And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of the Province of Otago intituled the “Execu-
tive Council Ordinance 1861” it is provided that the
Superintendent of the said Province shall in the admi-
nistration 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 pur-
pose 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 Gover-
nment 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 proclama-
tion 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 all Depasturing
Licenses existing over the Crown Lands specified
in the Schedule hereto have been cancelled:

James Macandrew,
Superintendent

of the Province of Otago. 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
sections of the size and form in which the same have
already been surveyed and as the same are laid off
and delineated in the maps of the Chief Surveyor
of the Province of Otago relative thereto: Now therefore
His Honor James Macandrew, Superintendent
of the Province 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 dele-
gated to the Executive Government of the said Pro-
vince 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 30th day of January 1871
all the Crown Lands specified in the Schedule hereto shall
be open for sale in sections of the size and form
in which such lands respectively have already been
surveyed and as the same are laid off and delinea-
ted on the map in the Office of the Chief Surveyor
of the Province of Otago relative thereto.\n
SCHEDULE.

Block III—Tuapeka West.
Sections 7 11 13 14 18 20 23 25 27 31 32 35 36 39
40 42 43 46 49 50 52 55 59.

Block II—Tuapeka West.
Sections 2 4 5 7 8 10 14.

Block II—Beaumont.
Sections 2 4 6.

Block I—Beaumont.
Sections 3 6 9 11 12 14 16 19 21 22 29 31.

As delineated on the record map of the above districts
deposited in the Survey Office Dunedin.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council.