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3. If the owner or person having the custody or possession of the said cattle, notice of which of the said cattle he deems actually infected with such disease; and such owner or person aforesaid shall, within twenty-four hours after such notice, destroy the cattle so deemed infected, and shall forthwith bury four feet under ground, or burn the carcasses of the cattle so destroyed; and if the owner or person having the custody or possession of the cattle deemed by the Inspector to be infected cannot readily be found, or if such owner or person neglect to destroy the cattle deemed infected after the receipt of the notice aforesaid, any Inspector for the said infected district may seize and destroy, or cause to be seized and destroyed such cattle so deemed infected.

4. If any owner of cattle, or any person having the custody or charge of cattle, shall after having received such notice as aforesaid, neglect or refuse to destroy the same or any of them within twenty-four hours after such notice, such owner or person aforesaid shall be liable to a fine or penalty of Fifty Pounds for every head of cattle which he shall have neglected or refused to destroy.

5. If any owner of cattle which any such Inspector as aforesaid has notified to be infected, or if any person having the custody care or possession of any such cattle shall, after the same or any of them have been destroyed, neglect or refuse to bury four feet under ground or burn the carcasses thereof within twenty-four hours after the destruction thereof, such owner or person aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty of Ten Pounds for every carcass which he shall neglect or refuse to bury or burn.

6. If any Inspector for the said infected district shall suspect that any cattle within the said infected district are infected with pleuro-pneumonia, but shall not be satisfied that such cattle are actually infected, if he think fit, give to the owner or the person having the custody, charge or possession of such cattle, notice in writing of what cattle he suspects to be infected with pleuro-pneumonia, and shall in and by such notice order and require such owner or person having the custody, charge or possession of such cattle to drive or cause to be driven the cattle mentioned in the said notice, to such place within the said infected district as such Inspector shall think fit, and such Inspector may in and by such notice direct and fix by what road and route the said cattle shall be so driven; and if any person being the owner of any cattle, or having in his custody care or possession any cattle within the said infected district shall after the expiration of forty-eight hours after such last mentioned notice has been served upon him or left at his usual place of business or residence, neglect or refuse to obey such order, or shall neglect or refuse to drive or cause to be driven the cattle mentioned in the said notice to the place and by the roads and route directed and fixed on by the said notice, such person shall be liable to a penalty of Ten Pounds for every head of cattle included in such last mentioned notice and after the expiration of the said period of forty-eight hours it shall be lawful for any such Inspector, if such owner or person as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to obey such order to seize and take into his possession the cattle included in such notice, and drive or cause to be driven the said cattle to the place and by the roads and route mentioned and fixed in the said notice.

7. In case any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any Inspector or any police constable acting under the authority of those Regulations, every person so offending shall, and may be seized and detained by such person acting as aforesaid or any person or persons he may call to his assistance until such offender or offenders can be taken before two Justices of the Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds.

8. All owners or persons having the custody care or possession of any cattle within the said infected district shall within fourteen days from the 1st day of March next, give a notice in writing to the Inspector of Cattle for the County of Westland containing the number of such cattle, the particulars as nearly as can be of the place or places where such cattle are kept or are, and the brands with which they are branded, and if such owners or persons shall neglect or refuse to obey this Regulation they shall be liable to a penalty of Ten Pounds.

9. These Regulations to take effect on and after Tuesday, the 1st March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Given under my hand at Hokitika this 25th day of January, 1870.

C. Hoos,

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 they 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