✨ Gold Fields Act Proclamation
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1871.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by the thirty-second clause of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that any person holding a lease of auriferous land under the provisions of the said Act or any preceding Act authorising the granting of leases for mining purposes, shall be entitled at any time, with the consent of the Governor, to surrender the same, either for the whole or any part thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor at his discretion to accept such surrender either in whole or in part, and if such surrender is for a part only, to reduce the rent payable by the lessee proportionably, provided that a lessee shall not be entitled to make such surrender in part more than twice during the currency of the lease:
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, except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit:
And whereas, by an instrument in writing, dated the twenty-seventh day of January, 1871, and published in The New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day of March, 1871, His Excellency the Governor did, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, delegate unto me, Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, all the powers vested in the Governor under or by virtue of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," and "The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869," except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," to have, hold, and exercise the said powers hereby delegated to me, the said Henry Hermann Lahman, within the County of Westland:
Now therefore, I, Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby notify that I accept from the Scandinavian Gold Mining Company, Ross, a further surrender of two acres two roods twelve perches, and do hereby reduce the rent payable by the aforesaid Company to seven pounds thirteen shillings and three-half-pence.
Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
H. H. LAHMAN.
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1871, No 15
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🗺️ Acceptance of Land Surrender under Gold Fields Act
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey13 June 1871
Gold Fields Act, Land surrender, Mining lease, Rent reduction, Westland County
- Henry Hermann Lahman (Chairman of the County Council of Westland), Accepted land surrender and reduced rent
- Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland