County of Westland, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me, do hereby grant unto Condrick and party protection for twelve months for a track about fifteen chains long, commencing at the Cock-a-bulla Creek, and ending about five chains east of peg 14 on the Clifton Road, and I do hereby authorise the collection of the undermentioned tolls. The protection to date from the 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.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by the thirteenth 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 all persons using the same, as he shall think fit:

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-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 Card Brothers protection for six months for a track following New River Valley from mouth of Cock-a-bulla Creek to mouth of Maori Creek at AM line (a distance of about five and a half miles), and I do hereby authorise the collection of the undermentioned tolls. The track to be maintained to the satisfaction of the County Engineer, and the protection to date from the first of 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.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the thirteenth 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 all 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.