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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 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 limita-
tions 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 Lah-
man, Chairman of the County Council of
Westland, in exercise and pursuance of all
the powers vested in and delegated to me in
this behalf, do hereby grant to Stenhouse and
party a special claim of ten acres, situate on
the South Beach, Hokitika, subject to the
following conditions:—

Conditions recommended for Stenhouse and
party's special claim, Tucker Flat:—

1st. The claim to be surveyed at the ex-
pense of Stenhouse and party.

2nd. Four men per acre to be constantly
employed on the claim.—(This condition may
be temporarily relaxed at the discretion of
the Warden of the District, provided that at
no time shall a smaller number than fifteen
men be kept working in the claim).

3rd. The said Stenhouse and party shall
pay a yearly rent of one pound (£1) per
acre, in half-yearly payments.

4th. The said Stenhouse and party shall
have no right to sell or otherwise dispose of
any part of the claim. This condition is not
to affect the right to sell or dispose of
shares.

5th. The said Stenhouse and party shall
comply with the directions of the Warden of
the District as regards the working of the
claim.

6th. Clauses 25, 26, and 29, of "The
Mining Lease Regulations, 1870," to be
complied with by Stenhouse and party.

7th. In case any of the above conditions
are violated, the claim may be immediately
declared forfeited and to be forfeited accord-
ingly.

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

H. H. LAHMAN.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by the twelfth section of
"The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Go-
vernor, 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 opera-
tions 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, 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 Go-
vernor by the said Act, except the powers
conferred by sections twenty-two, forty,
forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hun-
dred 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