Delegation of Powers and Proclamation




NUM. 7.

SOUTHLAND
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1861.

[Reprinted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 40, Sept. 7, 1861.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 6th September, 1861.

His Excellency the Governor, in Council, has been pleased to delegate, under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," to the Superintendents respectively of the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, the several powers vested in the Governor by the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations contained in the Order in Council of even date herewith.

WILLIAM FOX.

PROCLAMATION

By JAMES A. R. MENZIES, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Southland.

WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to delegate, under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," to the Superintendent of the Province of Southland, the several powers vested in the Governor by the 2d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th sections of the said Act, subject to the Regulations contained in the Order in Council of 6th September 1861;

Now therefore I, the said Superintendent, in virtue of the powers vested in me, do hereby proclaim that the Inspector of Diseased Cattle at the Harbours of the Bluff and New River shall not be authorised, until further notice, to grant any certificate to land Cattle, as provided under the subsections (b and d) of section 4 of the said Act, to any Cattle imported from the Colony of Victoria; and I further appoint as Quarantine Ground for any Cattle landed under the provisions of subsection (d), section 4, the Peninsula on the east side of the Bluff Harbour, known by the name of Tewai’s Point: such Quarantine Ground being bounded on the west by the Bluff Harbour, on the north by the eastern arm of the Bluff Harbour, and by a right line extending due east from its eastern extremity, until it intersects the east boundary of the Campbelltown Hundred: on the east by the east boundary of the Campbelltown Hundred, from the said point of intersection to the sea coast: on the south by the ocean: And I further appoint that any Cattle which may be landed upon such Quarantine Ground shall not be removed from thence until the owner has obtained a certificate to that effect from the said Inspector.

J. A. R. MENZIES,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 2d October 1861.



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