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land in proportion to their respective popula- tions, and that all sums so paid shall be paid into the Bank at which the Provincial Account or the County of Westland Account, as the case may be, is for the time being kept, and shall be there placed to the credit of a special account to be called “The Road District Funds Account” of the Province or County. And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that the said moneys shall be available only for a division among the Road Boards of the Province or County in accordance with a scheme to be proposed for each year by the Superintendent, or Deputy Superintendent, of the Province, or the Chairman of the County Council of the County, for his Province or County, and approved by the Governor in Council for the first year, and by resolution of both Houses of the General Assembly for the remaining years:

And whereas there is available for division amongst the Road Boards for the County of Westland, for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, the sum of two thousand seven hundred pounds: And whereas the Chairman of the County Council of Westland has proposed a scheme for the division of the said sum:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of all powers enabling him in this behalf, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby approve of the said scheme of the Chairman of the County Council of Westland.

W. GISBORNE,
Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 7, of the 31st January, 1871.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

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 within the Colony all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the said Act, subject to such regulations as he may think fit: And whereas by the fourth section of “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by any Order in Council, from time to time annul, make void, or alter or vary and make anew, any Orders in Council, regulations, appointments, prohibitory, or other declarations, made and published by the Governor under the authority of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” or of “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” or by the Superintendent of any Province under or in pursuance of any powers delegated under the powers of delegation contained in “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” or “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865:” And whereas by the fifth section of “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” it is enacted that the power annulling, making void, or altering or varying and making anew, any such regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations vested in the Governor by “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” may from time to time be delegated by the Governor in Council, by Warrant under his hand, to the Superintendent of any Province:

And whereas by “The County of Westland Act, 1868,” it is enacted that in any Act of the General Assembly, except such as relate to the election of Superintendents and Provincial Councils, and to legislation by such Councils, and to appointments of Deputy Superintendents, and to audit of Provincial Accounts, and issue of Provincial Revenue, and matters of a like kind, the word “Province” shall include “County of Westland,” and the word “Superintendent” shall include with regard to such County, any person whom the Governor may from time to time appoint to perform within such County those duties and exercise those powers under any such Act which might, if such duties and powers had to be performed or exercised within a Province, be exercised or performed by the Superintendent of such Province:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, do hereby delegate to

HENRY HERMANN LAHMAN, Esq.,
the Chairman of the County Council for the said County of Westland, within the said County, so long as he shall remain Chairman of the County Council, the several powers vested in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” aforesaid.