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in Council to have hold and exercise the said powers within the said Province of Otago: And whereas by thirty-ninth 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 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 to amend alter and revoke: And whereas James Macandrew Esquire Superintendent of the Province of Otago by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Province did by Proclamation dated the eleventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight and published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette (No. 646) on the fourteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight make certain regulations for the purposes specified in the said thirty-ninth section of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to revoke Regulation No. 23 of the Regulations so made 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 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” and of any and every other power in anywise enabling him in this behalf doth hereby order that the said Regulation No. 23 of the said Regulations of the eleventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight shall from and after the day of the date hereof be revoked.

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

James Macandrew,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:
His Honor the Superintendent,
Donald Reid,
James Benn Bradshaw, and
John Bathgate, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, being also Members of the Provincial Council thereof.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick Esquire then Superintendent of the Province of Otago by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to and vested in him in this behalf did by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province bearing date the 29th day of January 1867 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 so proclaimed as aforesaid have from time to time been altered: And whereas by the forty-second section of the “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 declare the exceptions to be made from leases and licenses granted under the said Act and also the covenants clauses provisos conditions and agreements applicable to such leases and licenses respectively as he may in like manner from time to time rescind alter or vary the same: 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 in 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 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 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 January 1870 and published in the Provincial Government Gazette of the Province of Otago aforesaid (No. 646) of the fourteenth day of January 1870 the Executive Government of the Province of Otago did proclaim and declare that from and after the date thereof the exceptions thereafter appearing should be made from all Agricultural and Gold Mining Leases granted under the said Act and the covenants clauses provisos conditions and agreements applicable to Agricultural and Gold Mining Leases respectively: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said Order in Council of the said eleventh day of January 1870 and to make other provisions in lieu thereof:

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 doth hereby 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” and of any and every other power in anywise enabling him in this behalf hereby revoke the said Order in Council of the said eleventh day of January 1870 and both hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the exceptions next hereinafter appearing shall be made from all Agricul-