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under any Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, may be delegated by the
Governor, or the Governor in Council, to the
Superintendent of a Province, or to any
person or persons, may within and for the
County of Westland be delegated to the
Chairman of the County Council, or to any
other persons or persons as the Governor may
think fit;

And whereas by an instrument in writing,
bearing date the 3rd day of February, 1869,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette
of the 8th February, 1869, His Excellency,
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor
of New Zealand, did, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, delegate unto me, Conrad Hoos,
Chairman of the County Council of the
County of Westland, so long as I shall
remain Chairman of the County Council, the
several powers vested in him by the second,
fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth Sections
of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” and all the
powers which by the fifth section of “The
Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,”
the Governor in Council is authorised to
delegate, subject to be rescinded as in
the said Acts provided, and subject to the
regulations issued by the Governor on the
eighteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five, and to any
other Regulations to be from time to time
duly made:

And whereas, by an Order in Council
dated the third day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, His Excellency
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with
the advice of the Executive Council of the
said Colony, did hereby delegate to me,
Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County
Council of the County of Westland, the
several powers vested in him by the second,
fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth Sections
of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in
the said Act provided, and subject to the
Regulations issued by the Governor on the
eighteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five, and to any
other Regulations to be from time to time
duly made:

And whereas, it has been made to appear
to me that the disease called Pleuro-pneumonia
has broken out amongst cattle in the County
of Westland:

Now therefore, I, Conrad Hoos, Chairman
of the County Council, in pursuance of the
powers in that behalf vested in me, do hereby
declare all that portion of the Colony
described in the first Schedule to “The County
of Westland Act, 1868,” as the County of
Westland, to be an infected district within
the meaning of “The Diseased Cattle Act,
1861,” and I do hereby make the following
Regulations for the destruction of diseased
cattle within the said Infected District, and
for preventing the further spread of the
aforesaid disease:

1. If any Inspector appointed under these
   Regulations, or otherwise under “The
   Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” for the infected
   district above referred to, shall at any time
   have reasonable grounds to suspect that any
   cattle within the infected district above referred
   to are infected with pleuro-pneumonia,
   it shall be his duty and he is hereby authorised
   forthwith, or as soon as he conveniently can,
   to proceed to and enter into and upon the
   place, whether enclosed or otherwise, where
   such cattle are or are supposed by him to be,
   and by inspecting such cattle, or in any other
   manner, shall satisfy himself whether such
   cattle or any of them are infected, or may
   reasonably be suspected to be infected with
   pleuro-pneumonia.

2. If such Inspector shall be satisfied that
   such cattle or any of them are actually
   infected with pleuro-pneumonia, he shall
   forthwith give to the owner or the person
   having the custody, charge, or possession of

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by “The Diseased Cattle
Act, 1861,” it is enacted that the Governor
in Council may, by warrant under his hand,
from time to time, delegate to the
Superintendent of any Province or any other
person within the said Colony, all or any of
the powers vested in the Governor in Council
by the said Act, subject to such Regulations

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this
thirty-first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.

C. Hoes.