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5. All Cattle required for consumption to be driven from the above Quarantine ground to the Public Slaughter House, at the Henui, along the sea beach.

6. Any infringement of the foregoing Regulations, not otherwise provided for, shall subject the owners of the Cattle to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for each offence.

7. The charge for depasturing such Cattle in the Quarantine ground to be at the rate of nine pence per head per week.

Given under my hand at New Plymouth this 11th day of October, 1865.

H. R. RICHMOND,
Superintendent.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Regulations respecting delegation of powers to Superintendents under "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the eighteenth day of September, 1865.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Warrants under the hand of his Excellency the Governor, bearing date this eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the Governor has with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to the Superintendents, respectively of the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, certain powers conferred on him by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," subject to certain regulations to be made by the Governor in Council under the said recited Act.

Now therefore his Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, by virtue of the authority given to him by the 14th section of the above recited Act, doth hereby make and ordain the following regulations:—

1. Each Superintendent shall immediately after exercising any of the delegated powers, notify the same to the Governor, and he shall transmit to the Governor particulars of all appointments and copies of all regulations made by him.

2. He shall, so soon as conveniently can be, notify all regulations made by him to the Colonial Secretary or Chief Secretary of each of the Australian colonies, and cause the same to be published in England in the Times newspaper.

3. In the exercise of powers delegated under the 9th section of the said Act, the Superintendent of any province may, either in the first instance or afterwards, from time to time by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the province, except out of any district proclaimed as infected under the said Act, any port or place within the limits of such district, and every such excepted port and place shall be deemed not to be within the proclaimed district; and the Superintendent may also from time to time by proclamation as aforesaid, rescind any proclamation of an infected district wholly or as to any part thereof, and also the proclamation of any such exception as aforesaid.

4. In the exercise of powers delegated under the 10th section of the Act, the Superintendent of any province may prohibit the importation, either by land or by sea, of cattle into such province from any other province or any particular part or place in any other province, or across the borders of a province or any particular part thereof.

5. In all such last-mentioned cases such Superintendent shall cause notice, as speedily as possible, of such prohibition to be given to the Superintendent of the province from which the importation shall be prohibited, and also to the Governor.

6. The Superintendent of any province may in his discretion suspend or forbear to exercise all or any of the powers delegated to him under the said Act.

7. The Superintendent of each province shall, as soon as can be after the commencement of each sitting of the Provincial Council of such province, lay before such Council copies and particulars of all the appointments, regulations, Acts, and proceedings whatever, issued, made, or done by him under the delegated powers of the said Act.

8. If the Provincial Council of any province shall by resolution declare their dissent from all or any of such appointments, regulations, Acts, and proceedings, such resolution shall be forthwith transmitted by the Speaker to the Governor for his consideration.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Printed and published, under the authority of the Provincial Government, by Messrs. Woon and Atkinson, of the town of New Plymouth, Government Printers for the time being.