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time to time, to order and direct that all or
any of the powers, functions, duties, and
authorities vested in or required to be per-
formed by the Governor or the Governor in
Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by the
said Act, within any Province or other Dis-
trict of the Colony, shall be exercised or
performed by the Superintendent of any such
Province, or by any other person the Gover-
nor may think fit; and thereupon such func-
tions, powers, duties, and authorities may,
by such Superintendent or other person, be
exercised or performed within the Province
or other District of the Colony specified:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zea-
land, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, in pur-
suance and in exercise of the power and
authority for that purpose vested in him,
doth hereby order and direct that all the
powers, functions, duties, and authorities
vested in or required to be performed by the
Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the
Colonial Secretary, by “The Lunatics Act,
1868,” within the County of Westland, shall
be exercised by the Chairman of the Council
of the said County.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 5,
February 8, 1869.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington,
this third day of February, 1869.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The County of West-
land Act, 1868,” provision is made for
the establishment of the County of West-
land, and it is by the said Act enacted that
the Laws and Ordinances of the Province of
Canterbury in force within the said County
at the time of the coming into operation of
the Act aforesaid, shall remain in force within
the said County, so far as the same are ap-
plicable, and that all powers vested in the
Superintendent of the said Province, either
solely or with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Province,
should within the said County become vested
in the Governor, provided that the Governor
may from time to time delegate all or any of
the said powers to such person or persons as
he may think fit, and may in like manner
alter and revoke such delegations: And
whereas, by an Order in Council bearing date
the eighth day of July, 1868, His Excellency
the Governor, by and with the consent of
the Executive Council of the Colony, did
delegate to the Honourable James Alexander
Bonar, within the County of Westland, all
the powers theretofore of the Superintendent
of the Province of Canterbury exercisable
within the district comprised within the said
County: And whereas it is expedient to
revoke the delegation of the powers aforesaid
so made to the Honourable James Alexander
Bonar, and to delegate the same powers to
Conrad Hoos, Esquire, Chairman of the
County Council of Westland, as hereinafter
mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zea-
land, in pursuance and in exercise of the
power and authority so vested in him as
aforesaid, doth hereby, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said
Colony, revoke the delegation to the Honour-
able James Alexander Bonar of the powers
aforesaid, contained in the said Order in
Council of the eighth day of July, 1868, and
with the like advice and consent doth hereby
delegate to

CONRAD HOOS, Esq.,
Chairman of the County Council of West-
land, within the County of Westland, all the
powers which before the passing of “The
County of Westland Act, 1868,” were by law
vested in the Superintendent of the Province
of Canterbury, and exercisable within the
district comprised in the said County of
Westland.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 5,
February 8, 1869.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Gold Fields Act,
1866,” it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council, under
his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony,
from time to time to delegate to the Superin-
tendent of any Province, or to such other
person as the Governor may deem fit, all or
any of the powers vested in the Governor or
the Governor in Council by the said Act,
except the powers conferred by sections
twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-
six, and one hundred and seven of the said
Act, and in like manner to alter or revoke
any such powers: And whereas His Excel-
lency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the