The Executive Government of the said Province in thi-

behalf, doth hereby order that the said regulations so
made for the Otago Gold Field for the purposes speci-
fied in said section thirty-nine of the said Gold
Fields Act 1866, and published in the said Govern-
ment Gazette, No. 646, of the Province of Otago as
aforesaid, as the same are altered and amended by the
said Orders in Council of the eleventh day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy,
and the twenty-eighth day of October, 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, for prescribing the mode in which
applications may be made for leases of land for agri-
cultural purposes, the quantity of land not exceeding
50 peres which shall and may be granted in a lease in
any particular block, the amount of deposit to be paid
by any applicant therefor and by any objector thereto,
the terms and conditions upon which such leases may
be held, occupied, assigned, transferred, forfeited, and
cancelled, the amount of rent payable therefor, the
terms of payment, and the conditions upon and the
manner in which entry to search for gold or for any
metal or mineral upon any lands so leased may be autho-
risèd.

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

SOUTHLAND GOLD FIELD.

EXCEPTIONS FROM AND CONDITIONS IN

AGRICULTURAL & GOLD MINING LEASES.

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 LILLEY GRIEVE, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of
Otago, being also Members of the Provincial
Council thereof.

WHEREAS John Parkin Taylor, Esquire, 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
therefore known as Run No. 393, in the said Pro-
clamation 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, 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 Procla-
mation 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 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, entitled the “Executive
Council Ordinance 1861,” it is provided that the Super-
intendent of the said Province shall, in the adminis-
tration of the Government thereof, act by and with the
advice and consent of an Executive Council: And
whereas the Governor, 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 forty-second
section of the said “Gold Fields Act 1866,” it is provided
that the Governor may, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, or in the Gazette of the Province
in which any Gold Field is situate, proclaim and de-
clare the exceptions to be made from leases and licenses
granted under the said Act, and also the covenants,
clauses, provisoes, conditions, and agreements appli-
cable to such leases and licenses respectively, and he
may in like manner from time to time rescind, alter, or
vary the same: And whereas by an Order in Council dated
the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy, published in the Provincial Go-
vernment Gazette of the Province of Otago, No. 651,
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, did