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therefore, 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 of 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 seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and published in the Government Gazette of the said Province on the twenty-seventh 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 Campbell Town Gold Field, the territory in the said Proclamation particularly described: 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 or by virtue of the one hundred and ninth section of the said last-mentioned 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 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 it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make such regulations not being contrary to the provisions of the said Act as he should think fit for regulating the granting of leases for mining purposes and the terms and conditions on which such leases should be granted, the amount of rent or royalty to be paid, whether in advance or otherwise by the grantees of such leases, the manner in which persons desirous of having such leases granted to them shall mark out the land for which they might apply, the mode and time of making and investigating and of determining upon applications for, and objections to, the granting of leases, the amount of deposit to be paid by the applicant and objector respectively as a security for the costs connected with such determination, and the terms and conditions upon which such leases might be held, occupied, worked, assigned and forfeited, or cancelled, and such regulations from time to time to alter, amend, or revoke:

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and published in the Provincial Government Gazette of the Province of Otago aforesaid (number 646), of the fourteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, certain regulations were made for the purposes specified in said section thirty, of the said Act for the "Otago Gold Field:" And whereas it is expedient to extend to the said Orepuki and Longwood Gold Field, Bushy Point Gold Field, and Campbell Town Gold Field, the regulations so made for the purposes specified in said section thirty of the said Act for the said Otago Gold Field, and 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 aforesaid:

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 1866," by a delegation dated the 14th 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 said regulations so made for the Otago Gold Field for the purposes specified in said section thirty of the said "Gold Fields Act 1866," and published in the said Government Gazette, No. 646, of the Province of Otago as aforesaid, 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 for regulating the granting of leases for mining purposes and the terms and conditions upon which such leases shall be granted the amount of rent or royalty to be paid by the grantees of such leases the manner in which persons desirous of having such leases granted to them shall mark out the land for which they apply, the mode and time of making and investigating and of determining upon applications for and objections to the granting of leases, the amount of deposit to be paid by the applicant and objector respectively as a security for the costs connected with such determination, and the terms and conditions upon which such leases may be held, occupied, worked, assigned and forfeited, or cancelled.

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council of the Province of Otago.

SOUTHLAND GOLD FIELDS AGRICULTURAL LEASES 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 Lillie Gillies, Esquires,