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or performed within the Province or other District of the Colony specified in such Order, and in like manner to alter or revoke any such order:

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date the twenty-third day of June, 1870, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 34, of the 26th June, 1870, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him, did 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, should be exercised by the Chairman of the Council of the said Colony:

Now therefore, I, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me, do hereby direct and appoint that the sums named in the undermentioned Schedule shall be the weekly sums to be paid for the maintenance of Lunatics in the Lunatic Asylums within the County of Westland.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

C. Hoos,

SCHEDULE.

Lunatic Asylum at South Spit, 22s. per week.
Lunatic Asylum at Cemetery Hill, actual cost of maintenance.

And whereas by an instrument in writing dated the third day of February, 1869, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of February, 1869, His Excellency the Governor did, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, delegate unto me, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, all the powers vested in the Governor under or by virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-nine, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of the said Act, to have, hold, and exercise the said powers hereby delegated to me within the County of Westland:

Now therefore, I, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, in exercise of the powers in that behalf delegated to me, do hereby grant unto Pierre Richard and Stephen Glossop protection for a Ferry on the Hokitika River, known as Geordie’s Ferry, subject to the conditions published in the County of Westland Gazette, No. 18, of the 7th May, 1870, and I do hereby authorise the collection of the undermentioned tolls. The protection to date from 1st July, 1870.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

C. Hoos,

SCHEDULE.

Horse and rider ... 2s 0d
Foot passenger ... 0s 6d

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the 13th Section of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorise the construction, by private enterprise, of any Road, Bridge, Wharf, Ferry, or other public work, for the use and benefit of the public, and to permit the occupation, for a limited period, of sites for the same, and to provide for the payment of such tolls for a limited period by all persons using the same as he may deem advisable:

And whereas, by the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act, 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 such person as the Governor may think fit all or any of the powers vested in the Governor by the said Act:

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the 13th Section of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorise the construction, by private enterprise, of any Road, Bridge, Wharf, Ferry, or other public work, for the use and benefit of the public, and to permit the occupation, for a limited period, of sites for the same, and to provide for the payment of such tolls for a limited period by all persons using the same as he may deem reasonable:

And whereas, by the one hundred and ninth Section of the said Act, 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 such person as he may think fit all or any of the powers by the said Act vested in the Governor: