NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XVI.

DUNEDIN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1872.

No. 772.

James Macandrew, Super-
intendent of the Pro-
vince of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:
His Honor THE SUPERINTENDENT,
Donald Reid, Esquire,
James Benn Bradshaw, Esquire, and
John Bathgate, Esquire,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of
Otago.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick Esquire then Superin-
tendent of the Province of Otago by virtue
and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested
in him in that behalf did by Proclamation in the
Government Gazette of the said Province bearing date
the twenty-ninth day of January one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven constitute and appoint
all the territory therein described to be a Gold
Field, under the provisions of the "Gold Fields Act
1866" to be called the "Otago Gold Field." And
whereas the limits of the said Gold Field have
from time to time been altered: 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 hun-
dred 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 Pro-
vince of Otago intituled the "Executive Council Ordi-
nance 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 Govern-
ment 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
Section XI of the "Gold Fields Act 1866" it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council subject to the provisions of the said Act from
time to time to make Regulations for any Gold Field
and to alter amend or revoke the same: And whereas
by an Order in Council dated 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 four-
teenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and
seventy certain Regulations were made under said Sec-