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THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1870.
[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 58, of the 24th of October, 1870.]
G. F. Bowen, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of September, 1870.
Present:
The Honourable Donald McLean, Native and Defence Minister, Presiding, and Members of the Executive Council.
WHEREAS by "The District Courts Amendment Act, 1865," it is enacted that the powers conferred on Judges of District Courts in and by the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh sections of "The District Courts Act, 1858," shall be exercised only within such districts as shall from time to time be named by the Governor, by Order in Council published in the New Zealand Gazette, as districts within which such power may be exercised:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority vested in him in that behalf, name and declare
The Westland North District,
and
The County of Westland District,
as defined in and by a certain Proclamation dated the twenty-eighth day of June last, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the thirtieth day of June last, to be districts within which the power conferred by the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh sections of "The District Courts Act, 1865," may be exercised.
Donald McLean,
Presiding.
Approved in Council.
Forster Goring,
Clerk to the Executive Council.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, by the twelfth Section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon application being made, to grant special claims of greater area than may be determined by the Regulations to be made under the eleventh Section of the said Act, for the purpose of carrying on mining operations under circumstances of extraordinary difficulty, or involving the expenditure of considerable sums of money, or for the encouragement of enterprise in prospecting new ground, or as a reward for the discovery of new gold workings, and also to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which any such special claim may be held, occupied, worked, and forfeited:
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 persons as the Governor may think fit all or any of the powers vested in the Governor by the said Act, except the powers conferred by Sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven.
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1870, No 36
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- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- Donald McLean, Native and Defence Minister
- Forster Goring, Clerk to the Executive Council
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