man of the Board of Commissioners for the Cattle District in which any Cattle have been shot or destroyed by him or by his order, and within twenty-four hours after the shooting or destroying thereof, a notice giving the number, description and the brand, if any, of the Cattle so shot or destroyed by him, and shall keep the skins of any such Cattle at a place to be appointed by the Chairman of the Board of Cattle Commissioners, at least one week after the delivery of such notice, and in default shall, on the information of the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, be subject to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds to be recovered in a summary way.

3. The Chairman of any Board of Cattle Commissioners to whom any such notice of Cattle having been shot or destroyed shall have been delivered, shall immediately cause a copy thereof to be posted at the public Pound situated nearest to the place at which such Cattle were shot or destroyed, and on the Public Notice Board at the Town Bridge, Devon street.

4. No Licensee under this Ordinance shall be liable to pay any compensation or damages for Cattle shot by him in the proper exercise of his License, unless a claim to the ownership thereof shall have been lodged with the Chairman of Cattle Commissioners, by whom the notice of the shooting or destroying thereof was published, within seven days after the publication of such notice, and unless such Cattle were branded with a registered brand, and unless such claimant can prove they were not wild Cattle within the meaning and intent of these regulations.

5. No Licensee to destroy wild Cattle shall have any effect or shall exempt the holder thereof from any punishment or penalty to which he would otherwise be subject, except as regards acts done during the period specified in such License.

6. In the event of any Cattle shot or destroyed by any Licensee being claimed within the period hereinbefore specified and which are proved not to have been wild Cattle within the meaning of these regulations, the Board of Cattle Commissioners shall award the amount of compensation to be paid by such Licensee to the person who shall prove to their satisfaction that he is the owner of such Cattle, and the amount awarded shall be recoverable by such owner as a debt due to him by such Licensee.

7. The term “Wild Cattle” shall apply to all Cattle whether unbranded or branded with a brand either registered or not registered, whereof the owner or person in charge cannot prove that during the period of nine months immediately preceding the shooting or destroying thereof they had been kept for at least six months in fenced enclosures, or that they had for the same period been under the control of their owner, or on land in his occupation.

8. Any person not duly licensed under these Regulations or authorised by the Bye Laws of any Cattle District, who shall shoot or destroy any Cattle which are not his own property and without the consent of the owner thereof, shall, in addition to any penalty to which he might otherwise be liable, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds for each such offence, recoverable in a summary way.

H. R. Richmond,
Superintendent.

Thomas Kelly,
Provincial Secretary.

REPORT OF INSPECTOR
OF
SHEEP AND CATTLE.

New Plymouth,
January 7th, 1867.

SIR — I have the honor to report the arrivals of the following ships with stock to the Port of New Plymouth for the half-year ending 31st December, 1867:—

The above schedule comprises the exact number of stock imported to this Province during the aforesaid period; neither Cattle nor Sheep showed any signs of disease at the time of landing, but as a precautionary measure I had all the Sheep dipped that were not immediately slaughtered, as infection exists on board of the various steamboats; it therefore allowed the Sheep that were imported to mix with the flocks in the Province without danger of infection.

I have the satisfaction to report to your Honor that the scab in this Province is all but eradicated — only one flock in the Omata District is diseased, and that very slightly, but until a period of eight months or thereabouts have elapsed after the last flock of Sheep have been dipped, it will be impossible to report with certainty that the Province is free therefrom. The difficulty of placing the newly dipped Sheep on pasturage free from the acari,