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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 the County of Westland, in exercise of the powers in that behalf delegated to me, do hereby grant unto Faulkner and Simmons protection for twelve months for a track about fifty chains long, commencing in the Eight-Mile Creek bed at a point about fifteen chains below Faulkner and Simmons’ store, and terminating at Faulkner and Simmons’ branch store, Maori Creek Township, and I do hereby authorise the collection of the undermentioned tolls. The protection to date from first March, 1871.

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

H. H. LAHMAN.

SCHEDULE.

• Horses, without packs ... 1 0
• Horses, with packs ... 2 0
  [* To return free the same day.]
  Cattle, per head ... 2 0
  Sheep, pigs, or goats, each ... 0 3

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 Lahman 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 unto McGrigor and party a special claim of six acres, situated on the Kauieri Terrace subject to the following conditions :

1. The claim to be surveyed at the expense of McGrigor and party.
2. The said McGrigor and party shall have no right to sell or otherwise dispose of any part of the said claim: this condition is not to affect the right to sell or dispose of shares.
3. The said McGrigor and party shall comply with the directions of the Warden of the district as regards the working of the claim.
4. Clauses 25, 26, and 29 of “The Mining Lease Regulations, 1867,” to be complied with.
5. The said McGrigor and party to pay one pound (£1) per acre per annum as rent.
6. In case of any of the above conditions are violated, the claim may be immediately declared forfeited, and to be forfeited accordingly.

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

H. H. LAHMAN.