Thomas McLean, Chairman
Donald McKernan
T. P. Fitzgerald
Jno. Brown
Joseph Fosbinder.

Sanctioned on behalf of the Waste Land Board.

Walter H. Pearson,
Chief Commissioner.

Published in pursuance of “Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865.”

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” section four, the Governor may, by any Order in Council, from time to time, annul, make void, or alter, or vary, and make anew any Orders in Council, regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations made and published by the Governor under the authority of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” or of this Act, or by the Superintendent of any Province, under or in pursuance of any power delegated to him under any of the powers of delegation contained in the said Act. And whereas by section five of the said Amendment Act, “as to regulations, appointments, and prohibitory and other declarations made by Superintendents of Provinces, in pursuance of any powers delegated in the said Act or this Act, the power of annulling, making void, or altering, or varying and making anew any such regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations vested in the Governor by this Act, may from time to time be delegated by the Governor in Council by warrant under his hand to the Superintendent of any Province.”

And whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to John Parkin Taylor, Esq., so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Southland, all the powers which by the said fifth section of the said Amendment Act the Governor in Council is authorised to delegate.

Now therefore I, the said John Parkin Taylor, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare, that after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, the several Colonies of Australia, (that is to say), the Colony of Victoria, of New South Wales, of Queensland, of South Australia, and Western Australia, as well as the Colony of Tasmania, and the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning of the said Acts; and I do further proclaim and declare the following regulations for prohibiting the importation of Cattle into the Province of Southland from such districts, and for the landing or driving of such cattle, and for the destroying of cattle imported, landed, or driven contrary to these regulations:—

1. If any person shall import any cattle from either or any of the said infected districts into the Province of Southland, unless upon quarantine ground, and after having obtained from an inspector of cattle a quarantine certificate, he shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds for every head of cattle so imported into the Province of Southland.

2. If any person shall land or cause to be landed, or assist in landing any cattle coming from either of the said infected districts in or upon any part of the Province of Southland, unless upon a quarantine ground, and after having obtained a quarantine certificate, he shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds for every head of cattle so landed.

3. It shall be lawful for and the duty of any inspector of cattle or police constable to destroy or cause to be destroyed any diseased cattle which shall be imported or landed contrary to these regulations.

4. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any inspector of cattle or any police constable acting under the authority of these regulations, every person so offending may be taken before two Justices of the Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds.

5. These regulations shall take effect from and after the date of publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand, at Invercargill, this sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

John P. Taylor,
Superintendent.