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 power delegated under the powers of delegation contained 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 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 so to delegate:

Now therefore, I, 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," all that portion of the Middle Island of New Zealand, lying to the east of Mataura River, from the mouth to the source thereof; also all that portion lying north of a line running due west from Eyre Peak to the Mararoa River, and a line drawn from thence to the mouth of a creek running into the Te Anau Lake, called Henry Creek; also all that portion lying west of the Te Anau and Manawapouri Lakes, and the left bank of the Waiau River, excepting Runs No. 172, 303, 413, in the Province of Otago; also all the Provinces in the North Island of New Zealand, the Chatham Islands, Ruapuki, and other islands in Foveaux Straits, 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 the destruction of diseased cattle, and for the preventing and regulating the removal or transportation of cattle from the said several infected districts into the Province of Southland.

1. If any person shall import, drive, or remove, or cause to be imported, driven, or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from either of the said infected districts into the Province of Southland, except upon quarantine ground, and the authority of a quarantine certificate, such person shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds for every head of cattle so imported, driven, or removed.

2. It shall be lawful for any inspector of cattle or police constable to destroy, or cause to be destroyed, any cattle which shall pass into this Province from either of the said districts, contrary to these regulations.

3. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any inspector, 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.

4. 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.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 10th June, 1868.

THE following Bill passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Southland, intituled

"The Appropriation Ordinance, No. 2, 1868,"

which Bill was reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.