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in the Governor, or Governor in Council,
by the said Act subject to such Regulations as he may think fit, and may from
time to time rescind such delegation:—
and Whereas the Governor hath, with the
advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, delegated to
Isaac Earl Featherston, Esquire, so long
as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, the
several powers vested in the Governor by
the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh,
Ninth, and Tenth Sections of the said
Act, subject to being rescinded as in the
said Act is provided, and subject to the
Regulations issued by the Governor in
Council on the first day of October, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
and to any other Regulations to be, from
time to time, duly made.

Now therefore, I, the said Isaac Earl
Featherston, by virtue of the powers
vested in me in this behalf, Do hereby
Proclaim and declare—First, that after
the date hereof the several Colonies of
Australia—that is to say—the Colony of
Victoria, the Colony of New South Wales,
the Colony of Queensland, the Colony of
South Australia and the Colony of Western Australia, as well as the Colony of
Tasmania, and the Colony Cape of Good
Hope, and the Islands of Great Britain
and Ireland shall be deemed to be infected districts within the meaning and
for the purposes of the above-mentioned
Act, and that no Cattle after the date
hereof until further notice shall be imported into the Province of Wellington
from such districts: Provided however,
that the Superintendent of the Province
may allow any Cattle to be landed from
vessels from the Islands of Great Britain
and Ireland, subject to such conditions
and restrictions as he may deem expedient and the circumstances of any case
may require: And I do also Proclaim and
declare, that after the date hereof the
Province of Otago and the Province of
Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, shall be deemed to be infected
Districts within the meaning of the said
Act, and that no Cattle shall be imported
into the Province of Wellington from
either of the said Provinces.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this Ninth day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

Warrant delegating to the Superintendent
of the Province of Wellington, certain
powers vested in the Governor by the
"Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

WHEREAS by the "Diseased Cattle
Act, 1861," it was provided that the
Governor in Council might by Warrant
under his hand from time to time delegate
to the Superintendent of any Province
within the said Colony all or any of the
powers vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by the said Act subject to
such regulations as he might think fit
and might from time to time rescind such
delegations.

Now therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne,
the Governor of the said Colony of New
Zealand, with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council thereof, and in
pursuance and exercise of the said power
and authority, do, by this Warrant under
my hand delegate to Isaac Earl Featherston, Esq., so long as he shall hold the
Office of Superintendent of the Province
of Wellington, in the said Colony, the
several powers vested in me by the
Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth,
and Tenth Sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act
provided, and subject to the Regulations
of even date herewith and to any other
Regulations to be from time to time duly
made.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland this first
day of October, in the year of our
Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

T. Gore Browne.

By His Excellency’s command,
WILLIAM Fox.

A PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas
Gore Browne, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty’s Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it
is enacted that the said Act shall come
into operation on such day as shall be
fixed by the Governor whereof Proclamation shall be made and published in the
Government Gazette.

Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne,
do hereby proclaim and fix the day of the
date hereof to be the day on which the
said Act shall come into operation.