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SCHEDULE.

Tuapeka Hundred.

All that parcel of land in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estimation fifteen thousand (15,000) acres, more or less, situate in Tuapeka West District, being Block numbered IV., and parts of Blocks numbered respectively I., II., V., and VII., on the map of the said district; bounded towards the North by parts of Blocks numbered respectively I. and II., twenty-eight thousand seven hundred (28,700) links; by other part of Block numbered II., ten thousand four hundred (10,400) links, also by Block numbered III., three thousand (3,000) links; towards the East by other part of the said Block II., six thousand seven hundred (6,700) links, by Block numbered III., seven thousand (7,000) links, by Block numbered VI., twenty-eight thousand (28,000) links, also by other parts of Blocks numbered respectively II. and V., thirty-five thousand (35,000) links; towards the South by other part of the said Block numbered V., thirteen thousand four hundred (13,400) links, by part of Block numbered IX., seven thousand four hundred and thirty (7,430) links, also by other part of Block numbered VII. twenty-eight thousand (23,000) links; and towards the West by the Clutha River forty-six thousand (46,000) links, also by other parts of the said Blocks numbered respectively II. and V. thirty-five thousand (35,000) links, and comprised in Runs numbered respectively 123 and 137.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

God Save the Queen!

Proclamation constituting Lee Stream Hundred.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by “The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he think fit, on the recommendation of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute into a hundred any portion of the waste land not forming any part of any hundred previously proclaimed, notwithstanding that such lands or any part thereof shall be comprised within any pastoral lease or license theretofore or thereafter to be granted by the Crown under any law regulating the occupation or disposal of waste lands, and whether or not the same shall have been included within the boundaries of any proclaimed goldfield:

And whereas by the said Act it is also further provided that no hundred shall be constituted which shall consist wholly of land unsuitable for agriculture and adapted for pastoral purposes only, and before any hundred shall be constituted it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor to certify to the Governor that in their opinion not less than one-third part of the area of such hundred is land available for agriculture:

And whereas the Superintendent of the Province of Otago and the Provincial Council of the said province have recommended that the waste lands particularly described in the Schedule hereto should be proclaimed to be a hundred under the provisions of the said Act: And whereas the said lands do not form part of any hundred previously proclaimed, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands and the Chief Surveyor of the said province have, in accordance with the hereinbefore recited provisions of the said Act, certified to the Governor, as to such lands herein-after in the said Schedule described, that in their opinion not less than one-third part of the area thereof is land available for agriculture:

And whereas it is expedient that effect should be given to the said recommendation of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority vested in me by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim that the waste lands particularly described in the Schedule hereto shall be, and the same are hereby, constituted into a hundred under and for the purposes of the said Act; and that the same shall be called or known by the name set above the description of the said hundred in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Lee Stream Hundred.

Comprises all that area in the Province of Otago in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by estimation twenty thousand (20,000) acres, more or less, situate in the South-Eastern Pastoral District, being part of Runs numbered respectively one hundred and eighty-five (185), two hundred and sixty (260), and two hundred and fifty-four (254), on the map of the said district; bounded towards the South-west by Lee Stream, commencing at Pre-emptive Right on Run numbered forty-eight (48), and proceeding in a north-western direction forty-eight thousand (48,000) links; thence by a straight line in a north-easterly direction to a point one chain north of Deep Stream, thirty-eight thousand nine hundred (38,900) links; towards the North-east by a line running parallel to Deep Stream at a distance of one chain from its north bank, twenty-eight thousand (28,000) links; thence by a straight line in a south-easterly direction, twenty-three thousand eight hundred (23,800) links; thence by a line in a south-westerly direction, thirty-six thousand five hundred (36,500) links, to the starting point.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

God Save the Queen!

Proclamation constituting Dunback Hundred.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by “The Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he think fit, on the recommendation of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute into a hundred any portion of waste land not forming any part of any hundred previously proclaimed.