PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the twenty-ninth section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, to demise for mining purposes, to any person, for any term not exceeding fifteen years from the making of the lease, any auriferous Crown Lands not exceeding ten acres in the whole of alluvial ground, or an area of 400 yards by 200 yards on a quartz reef, and to grant sites for machinery and any necessary easements for the purposes aforesaid, subject, nevertheless, to the conditions or provisions in the said section contained;

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-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, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, did, on the twenty-seventh day of 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 Lahman, 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, subject to all existing rights.

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 to authorise the construction, by private enterprise, of any road, bridge, wharf, ferry, or other public work, for the use and benefit of the public, and to permit the occupation, for a limited period, of sites for the same, and to provide for the payment of such tolls for a limited period by such persons using the same, as he shall deem reasonable;

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-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,