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Jany. 11.

THE COUNTY OF

WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

HOKITIKA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1868.

Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette of the 29th June, 1868, No. 35.

G. F. BOWEN, GOVERNOR.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the twenty-fifth day of June, 1868.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it is enacted that if at any time it shall 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 shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, to declare that such district is infected within the meaning of the said 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 whereas, it has been made to appear to the said Governor that the infectious disease called pleuro-pneumonia has broken out amongst cattle in that portion of the Province of Canterbury hereinafter described:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., in exercise of the power and authority so vested in him as Governor aforesaid doth by this Order in Council, declare the said portion hereinafter described of the Province of Canterbury to be an infected district within the meaning of the said Act, that is to say, all that portion of the Province of Canterbury north and east of the line described as follows, namely—commencing at the junction of the Waimakariri River with the sea; thence following the left or north bank of that river, not including the Kaiapoi Island, to the junction of the Poulter branch; thence up the left bank of the Poulter to its source; and thence in a direct line to the summit of the Teremakau saddle. And the said Governor also doth hereby make the following regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle, and for prohibiting the removal and transportation of cattle from the said infected district into the County of Westland:—

1. If any person shall import, drive, or remove, or cause to be imported, driven, or removed, or assist in driving, or removing any cattle from the said infected district into the County of Westland, such persons shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds for every head of cattle so imported, driven or removed.

2. It shall be lawful for any inspector of cattle or police constable to destroy, or cause to be destroyed, any diseased cattle, which shall pass into the said County of Westland from the said district, contrary to these regulations.

3. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any inspector, or any police constable acting under the authority of these regulations, every person so offending shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds.

4. These regulations shall take effect from and after the date of publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ERRATUM.—In the County of Westland Gazette, No. 10, page 49, in Clause 4. of the Schedule of Rates to be charged on Vessels, for "eighteen pence," read "eight pence."