NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XV. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1871. No. 717.

AGRICULTURAL LEASES REGULATIONS.

James Macandrew,
Superintendent
Of the Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,

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

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 by the 39th section of "The Gold Fields Act 1866" it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make regulations prescribing the mode in which applications may be made for leases of land for agricultural purposes, the quantity of land not exceeding fifty acres which shall and may be granted in a lease in any particular block and 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 and the times and places of payment the conditions upon and the manner in which entry to search for gold or for any metal or mineral upon any land so leased may be authorised and the terms and conditions upon which holders of Miners' Rights may be permitted to mine upon land the lease for which shall have been determined on account of its auriferous character and such regulations from time to time amend alter and revoke.

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 in like manner to revoke any such delegation. And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago entitled 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 an Order in Council dated the eleventh day of