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Ferry Conditions subject to the approval of the County Engineer.

2. Ferry to extend on both sides of the river, one mile each way, from the point at which the punt starts.

3. The protection to date for one year from 1st October, 1871.

4. Schedule of charges:

5. All persons and vehicles carrying Her Majesty’s mails under contract and Government Officers on duty free.

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 or 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 and pursuance of all the powers vested in and delegated to me in this behalf, do hereby grant to Wilson and party a special claim of eight chains, by two and a-half chains, situated at the Teremakau, Grey District, subject to the conditions mentioned in the attached schedule.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

H. H. LAHMAN,

SCHEDULE.

1. An annual rent of one pound per acre, to be paid by Wilson and party, on consideration of their having paid compensation.

2. Certificates of registration to be taken out by Wilson and party, and to be renewed annually at the Warden’s office. All transfers of any interest in the claim to be registered at the Warden’s office.

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