James Macandrew,
Superintendent of the
Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the thirty-first 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 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 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 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 hundred and ninth section of the said Act may be delegated by the Governor in Council; 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 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 Proclamation 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 purposes aforesaid: And whereas all Depasturing Licenses and Leases hitherto existing over the Crown Lands specified 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 said Crown Lands specified in the Schedule hereto in sections of the size and form in which the same have been surveyed and as the same are now 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 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 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 now laid off and delineated on the maps in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Otago relative thereto respectively.

THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO:

All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement seventy-six (76) acres and three (3) poles more or less situate in Tokomairiro District being half of Section numbered nine (½ of 9) Block fifty-two (LII) on the map of the said district bounded towards the north-west by a road line four thousand five hundred (4500) links towards the north-east by a road line one thousand seven hundred and fifty (1750) links towards the south-east by other halves of the said Sections four thousand five hundred (4500) links and towards the south-west by Section numbered four (4) one thousand seven hundred and fifty (1750) links and intersected by a road line one hundred (100) links wide also by another road line (50) links wide.

All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement twenty-three (23) acres and sixteen (16) poles more or less situate in the Tokomairiro District being half of Section numbered nine (½ of 9) Block fifty-two (LII) on the map of the said district bounded towards the north-west by the other half of the said Section nine (9) one thousand five hundred (1500) links towards the north-east by section numbered ten (10) one thousand seven hundred and fifty (1750) links towards the south-east by a road line one thousand five hundred (1500) links and towards the south-west by Section numbered eight (8) one thousand seven hundred and fifty (1750) links and intersected by two (2) lines each one hundred (100) links wide.

All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement two hundred and fifty-seven (257) acres one (1) rood and thirty-six (36) poles more or less situate in the Tokomairiro District being sections numbered respectively one (1) and eleven (11) block forty-six (XLVI) three (3) and four (4) block forty-seven (XLVII) together with halves of sections numbered respectively eleven (½ of 11) and twelve (½ of 12) block fifty-two (LII) on the map of the said district bounded towards the north-west by other halves of the said sections numbered respectively eleven (11) and twelve (12) block fifty-two (LII) three thousand (3000) links also by section numbered two (2) block forty-seven (XLVII) three thousand five hundred (3500) links by section numbered two (2) block forty-six (XLVI) one thousand five hundred (1500) links towards the north-east by a road line one thousand seven hundred and fifty (1750) links four hundred and ten (410) links and ninety (90) links by sections numbered respectively nine (9) and ten (10) block forty-seven (XLVII) three thousand (3000) links also by section...