within the Southland Gold Fields, which said rules and regulations were published in the Government Gazette of the said Province of Southland, on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers so vested in him, did, by Proclamation bearing date the fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and published in the Government Gazette of the said Province, on the said fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, make certain additional rules and regulations for the said Southland Gold Fields: And whereas the said Province of Southland now forms part of the Province of Otago, as constituted by the “Otago and Southland Union Act, 1870:” 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 and by virtue of the 109th 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 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 109th 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 the eleventh section of the “Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make Regulations for any Gold Field, and to alter, amend, and revoke the same: And whereas, by an order in Council, dated the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, published in the Provincial Government Gazette, of the Province of Otago, No. 646, on the 14th day of January, 1870, certain regulations were made under section XI. of the said Act, for the “Otago Gold Field:” And by another Order in Council, dated the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, published in the said Provincial Government Gazette, No. 651, Section No. 22 of Regulation No. 12 of the said regulations, so made under said Section XI of the said Act, was revoked: And whereas, it is expedient to revoke the regulations so made by the said John Parkin Taylor as aforesaid, and all other regulations now in force, for the said Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field, the Bushy Point Gold Field, and the Campbell Town Gold Field, and to substitute in lieu thereof, and to extend to the said Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field, Bushy Point Gold Field, and Campbell Town Gold Field, the regulations now in force within the Otago Gold Field, as published in the said Government Gazette, No. 646, of the Province of Otago, on the said fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, as amended by the said Order in Council

of the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

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, and 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,” by a delegation dated the fourteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of any and every other power in anywise enabling the Executive Government of the said Province in this behalf, doth hereby order that the rules and regulations for the Southland Gold Fields so made by the said John Parkin Taylor, and published as aforesaid, shall, from and after the date hereof, be revoked, and by virtue and in exercise of the powers aforesaid doth hereby order that the rules and regulations made for the Otago Gold Field, and published in the said Government Gazette, No. 646, of the Province of Otago as aforesaid, as amended by the said Order in Council of the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, shall from and after the day of the date hereof extend to and be in force within the said Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field, the said Bushy Point Gold Field, and the said Campbell Town Gold Field, and doth hereby make the said Regulations the Regulations for the said Gold Fields respectively.

ALEX. WILLS,
Clerk to the Executive Council of the Province of Otago.

SOUTHLAND GOLD FIELDS.

GOLD MINING LEASE REGULATIONS.

James Macandrew,
Superintendent of the
Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

BRYAN CECIL HAGGITT, presiding;
GEORGE DUNCAN, and
JOHN LILLIS 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, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him in that behalf, did, 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 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