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claimed district; and the Chairman may also
from time to time by Proclamation as afore-
said, rescind any Proclamation of an infected
district, wholly or as to any part thereof, and
also the Proclamation of any such exception
as aforesaid.

4. In the exercise of powers delegated under
   the 10th section of "The Diseased Cattle
   Act, 1861," the Chairman may prohibit the
   importation into the County, either by land
   or sea, of cattle from any other Province or
   division of the Colony, or from any particular
   port or place within the Colony, or across the
   borders of the County, or any particular part
   thereof.

5. In all such last-mentioned cases the
   Chairman shall cause notice as speedily as
   possible of such prohibition to be given to
   the Superintendent of the Province from which
   importation shall be prohibited, and also to
   the Governor.

6. The Chairman may in his discretion
   suspend or forbear to exercise all or any of
   the powers delegated to him under the said
   Acts.

7. The Chairman shall, as soon as may be
   after the commencement of each sitting of the
   County Council, lay before such Council
   copies and particulars of all appointments,
   regulations, acts, and proceedings whatsoever,
   issued, made, or done by him under the powers
   delegated under the said Acts.

8. If the County Council shall by reso-
   lution declare its dissent from all or any of
   such appointments, regulations, acts, and
   proceedings, such resolution shall forthwith
   be transmitted by the Chairman to the Go-
   vernor for his consideration.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette
of the 23rd November, 1868, No. 66.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington,
this twentieth day of November, 1868.

Present :
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the tenth section of "The
Marine Act, 1867," it is enacted that
the Governor in Council may from time to
time make bye-laws and regulations for re-
gulating the management of piers, jetties,
wharves, and docks, and the general regulation
of the traffic on the same, and for regulating
all other matters relating to the protection of
life and property of passengers and others,
and by such bye-laws or regulations to impose
any penalty, not exceeding fifty pounds, for
the breach, or neglect, or disobedience of
the same, or any of them.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the Colony, and in
pursuance and exercise of all powers and
authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth
hereby make the following regulations and
bye-laws for the purposes aforesaid.

REGULATIONS AND BYE-LAWS.

1. The Master, or if there be no Master
   the person in charge of every vessel, whether
   steamer or sailing vessel, being or lying along-
   side of any pier, jetty, or wharf in the Colony,
   and which vessel shall have passengers on
   board, or be engaged in carrying passengers,
   or in which, if a steamer, passengers may by
   law be carried, shall keep for the use of pas-
   sengers or persons coming from or going on
   board such vessel a proper and secure gang-
   way, with double side-rails, or stanchions
   with ropes rove taut through the same, the
   top rail or rope being not less than three feet
   three inches high, and shall cause such gang-
   way to be securely fixed and to extend from
   one portion of the vessel’s deck or side-rail to
   the pier, jetty, or wharf, with a good solid
   bearing at each end, and to be so kept fixed
   so long as such vessel shall be alongside such
   wharf, pier, or jetty.

2. In the event of the outer end of any
   such gangway resting on the vessel’s side-
   rail, the Master, or if there be no Master the
   person in charge of any such vessel, shall keep
   substantial steps fixed to lead from the end of
   the gangway to the vessel’s deck.

3. In cases in which by the preceding re-
   gulations it is required that a vessel shall
   have a gangway fixed, the Master, or if there
   be no Master the person in charge of such
   vessel, shall keep a proper bright light fixed
   over such gangway from sunset to sunrise in
   such a manner as to light the whole length
   of it properly, and shall keep such light burn-
   ing bright and clear from sunset till sunrise,
   so long as the vessel remains alongside any
   pier, wharf, or jetty.

4. Any Master, or the person in charge of
   any vessel when there is no master thereof,
   who shall be convicted of any breach, neglect,
   or disobedience of any of the foregoing regu-
   lations or bye-laws, shall be liable to a penalty
   not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette,
of the 23rd November, 1868, No. 66.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Constabulary Force
Ordinance Amendment Act,
1868," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor from time to time to dele-
gate to any person or persons all or any of
the powers conferred on or vested in the
Governor by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-
Governor of New Zealand, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof, intituled "An Ordinance to provide
for the Establishment and Maintenance of a
Constabulary Force," and to restrict any such
delegation so as to enable the person or per-
sons named therein to exercise the powers
aforesaid only within any Province, County,
or other division of the Colony to be specified
and described in such delegation :

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in