Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of the Colony, Do hereby, in pursuance and execution of the said power and authority fix that Sessions of the several District Courts hereinafter mentioned shall be held at the times and places hereunder respectively set forth, or as soon as conveniently may be after each such day respectively, that is to say:

For the District Court of Wellington,
at the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Wellington, on the 3rd Wednesday in every month.

For the District Court of Hawke’s Bay,
at the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Napier, on the 3rd Wednesday in every alternate month, commencing on the 20th day of November next.

For the District Court of Wanganui,
at the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui, on the 3rd Wednesday in every alternate month, commencing on the 20th day of November next.

For the District Court of Nelson,
at the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Nelson, on the 3rd Wednesday in every alternate month, commencing on the 20th day of November next.

For the District Court of Marlborough,
at Picton, on the 3rd Wednesday in every alternate month, and at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Blenheim, on the 3rd Wednesday in each intervening month, the first Session being held at Picton on the 20th day of November next.

For the District Court of the Hutt,
at the Lower Hutt and at Grey Town, on the 3rd Tuesday and the 3rd Friday respectively in every alternate month, the first Session being held at the Lower Hutt on the 19th day of November next.

As witness my hand this sixth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

T. Gore Browne.

By His Excellency’s command,
Henry Sewell.

Present:—
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by Warrants under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, bearing date the sixth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the Governor did with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegate 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 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. The delegation of Powers under the said Warrants shall continue to be in force for the period of one year from this date, subject to be rescinded according to the provisions of the above-recited Act.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

At the Government House at Auckland, the Sixth day of September, 1861.