Act, and from time to time to make such regulations for destroying diseased cattle therein, and for prohibiting the removal or transportation of cattle from one part of the colony to another, and for preventing the further spread of such disease as to him shall seem fit;” and it is by the same Act also enacted that the Governor in Council may, 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 may think fit, and may from time to time rescind such delegation: And whereas the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to Isaac Earl Featherston, Esq., 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in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth Sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act is provided, and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the 14th day of September, 1864, and to any other regulations to be, from time to time, duly made:

L.S.

Under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

I. E. Featherston,
Superintendent.

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

Reservation of a Township in the Waitotara Block.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor Isaac Earl Featherston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by the Land Regulations now in force in the Province of Wellington, it is declared that all Reserves for the sites of townships or suburban lands for the sites of Agricultural and Small Farm settlements, or for any other purpose of public advantage, safety, convenience, health, or enjoyment shall be determined by the Superintendent, who shall notify the same by proclamation, wherein the object shall be specified for which any such Reserve shall be made: And whereas it would be of public advantage if certain land in the Waitotara Block was set apart as a site for a town. Now, therefore, I, Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in virtue of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that all that block of land situated in the Waitotara Block aforesaid, containing six hundred and forty acres more or less, and bounded on the North by the Koheroa stream and by other part of the said block, on the East and South by other parts of the said block, and on the West by Native reserves and by the Waitotara river: is hereby reserved and set apart by me for the purpose aforesaid.

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

I. E. Featherston,
Superintendent.

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

Whereas 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 of 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 provinces of Auckland, Otago, and 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