NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XV. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1871. No. 714.

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE SOUTHLAND GOLD FIELDS.

James Macandrew,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

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

Present:

Bryan Cecil Haggit, presiding,
George Duncan, and
John Lillie Gillies, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, being also members of the Provincial Council thereof.

WHEREAS John Parkin Taylor, Esquire, the then Superintendent of the Province of Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers in him vested in that behalf, did by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and published in the Government Gazette of the said Province of Southland, on the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, constitute and appoint to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act 1862,” under the name of the Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field; the territory in the said Proclamation particularly described: And whereas the said John Parkin Taylor, as and being such Superintendent as aforesaid, did, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers in that behalf in him vested, by another Proclamation bearing date the sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and published in the Government Gazette of the said Province on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, make certain rules and regulations to be in force

Province, on the second day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, alter the limits of the Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field, and did, under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act 1866,” constitute and appoint to be a Gold Field, and to form part of the Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field, all that territory theretofore known as Run No. 393, in the said Proclamation described: And whereas the said John Parkin Taylor, as and being such Superintendent as aforesaid, did, in pursuance and in exercise of the power in him vested in that behalf, by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and published in the Government Gazette of the said Province, on the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, constitute and appoint to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” under the name of the Bushy Point Gold Field; the territory in the said Proclamation particularly described. And whereas the said John Parkin Taylor, as and being such Superintendent as aforesaid in pursuance and exercise of the power in that behalf vested in him did, by Proclamation, bearing date the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and published in the Government Gazette of the said Province on the twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” under the name of the Campbelltown Gold Field; the territory in the said Proclamation particularly described. And whereas the said John Parkin Taylor in further pursuance and exercise of the powers in that behalf vested in him did, on the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, make certain rules and regulations to be in force...