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they are to be put up, he is hereby authorized to do so.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of July, 1864.

ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's Command,
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

Removal of the Prohibition to import Cattle into Wellington from Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, Hawke's Bay and Taranaki.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS, by Section Number X. of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it was enacted that if at any time it should be made to appear to the Governor that any infectious or contagious disease has broken out amongst cattle in any district of the Colony, it should be lawful for the Governor by order in Council to declare that such district was infected within the meaning of the Act, and from time to time to make such regulations for destroying diseased cattle therein, and for preventing the further spread of such disease as to him should seem fit: AND it was by the same Act also enacted that the Governor in Council might by warrant under his hand from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the 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 from time to time to rescind such delegation: AND whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and 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in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded, as in the said Act was provided, and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council,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: And whereas by Proclamation, issued on or about the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, certain places were declared infected districts within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, the said ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, by virtue of the powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby rescind the said Proclamation, in so far as it relates to the Provinces of Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, Hawke's Bay, and Taranaki.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

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

Removal of the prohibition to import Cattle into Canterbury from Nelson, Marlborough, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington.

PROCLAMATION.

UNDER "DISEASED CATTLE ACT, 1861."

WHEREAS, by a Proclamation, dated the First day of April, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, it was proclaimed and declared that the District comprising the several Provinces of Otago, Southland, Nelson, and Marlborough in the Middle Island, and the District comprising the several Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington in the North Island, were infected Districts within the meaning of the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861;" and whereas it has been deemed expedient that the Provinces of Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington in the North Island, should be exempted from the provisions of the said Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, do hereby rescind the said Proclamation, in so far as it relates to the said Provinces of Nelson and Marlborough in the Middle Island, and the said Provinces of Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington in the North Island.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this Eleventh day of July, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

(Canterbury Government Gazette, July 12, 1864.)