✨ Proclamation on Diseased Cattle
SOUTHLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
[Vol. 1.] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1863. [No. 57.]
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 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Sections of the said Act, subject to the Regulations contained in the Order in Council of 1st October, 1861;
And whereas by a proclamation given under my hand, dated 26th December, 1862, it was declared that the Inspector, under the said Act, would not be authorised to grant certificates to land in the Province of Southland, Cattle coming from any of the Australian Colonies;
And whereas it is expedient to make further provision in that behalf:
Now, therefore, I, the said Superintendent, in virtue of the powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Inspectors of Cattle in the Province of Southland, under the said Ordinance, are hereby authorised to grant certificates to land in this Province, Cattle shipped in the Colonies of Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia, and at the Ports of Newcastle and Twofold Bay, in the Colony of New South Wales, provided that the same are free from disease: and provided moreover that the Master of the vessel, on board of which such Cattle shall have been imported, shall deliver to such Inspector a certificate from the Collector of Customs, or, if there be no Collector of Customs, from the Police Magistrate, or from two Justices of the Peace, at the Port or place where such Cattle were shipped, to the effect that the district wherein such Port or place is situate was, to the best of his or their belief and knowledge, free from infectious disease in Cattle at the time of shipment, and that the Cattle shipped were free from any such disease; and in case the Master of any such vessel shall be unable to
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Southland Provincial Gazette 1863, No 57
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🌾 Delegation of Powers under Diseased Cattle Act
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources14 September 1863
Diseased Cattle Act, Proclamation, Superintendent, Inspectors, Cattle Importation
- JAMES A. R. MENZIES, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Southland