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January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, delegate unto me, Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, all the powers vested in him by the twenty-ninth section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866":

Now therefore, I, Henry Hermann Lehman, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby give notice that on the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, I intend to demise to the persons named in the schedule hereto annexed certain auriferous Crown Lands of alluvial ground for the terms specified in the said schedule.

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

H. H. LAHMAN.

SCHEDULE.

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 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 thirty-first day of January, 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 the County of Westland, all the powers vested in the Governor under or by virtue of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," except the powers conferred by sections eleven, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-nine, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of the said Act, to have, hold, and exercise the said powers hereby delegated to me the said Henry Hermann Lehman within the County of Westland:

Now therefore, I, Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of the County of Westland, in exercise and pursuance of all the powers vested in and delegated to me in this behalf, do hereby grant to the Victorian Co-Operative Gold Mining Company an extension of five acres two roods ten perches to their special claim, situated at Commissioner’s Flat, Kanieri, subject to the following conditions:—

1. Fifty-nine men to be employed on the claim, instead of fifty.
2. The surface of the camp reserve not to be interfered with.
3. Blocks of solid ground to be left underneath all buildings on the camp reserve.
4. The claim to be surveyed at the expense of the company.
5. The said Victorian Co-Operative Company 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.
6. The said company shall comply with the directions of the Warden of the District as regards the working of the claim.
7. Clauses twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-nine, of "The Mining Lease Regulations, 1867," to be complied with.
8. The said company to pay one pound per acre per annum as rent.
9. In case any of the above conditions are violated, the claim may be immediately de-