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to the Superintendent of any Province, or such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the Act now in recital, except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of the said Act, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke any such powers: And whereas by "The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869," certain alterations in the said first recited Act were made, and certain additional powers were given to the Governor and to the Governor in Council, and it was by the said Act now in recital enacted that the said "Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869," should be read and construed in connection with and as part of the said "Gold Fields Act, 1866:" And whereas by "The County of Westland Act, 1868," it is enacted that in any Act of the General Assembly (except certain Acts, not including "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,") 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 or 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, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority for this purpose in me vested, do hereby delegate unto

HENRY HERMANN LAHMAN, Esq.,
Chairman of the County Council of Westland, all the powers vested in the Governor and the Governor in Council under "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," and "The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869," except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," to have, hold, and exercise within the said County the said powers hereby given to the said Henry Hermann Lahman, so long as he shall continue and remain Chairman of the said County Council and no longer: Provided always that copies of all rules and regulations made under the said delegation shall be forthwith transmitted to the Colonial Secretary, in order that the same may be laid before the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of the one hundred and tenth clause of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 14, of the 25th February, 1871.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the thirty-second section of "The Westland Waste Lands Act, 1870," it is enacted that the sites of Towns shall from time to time be determined by the Governor upon the recommendation of the County Council, and shall be notified by Proclamation in The County of Westland Gazette: And whereas the said County Council has recommended that the land described in the schedule hereto should be a site for a Town within the meaning of the said section of the Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, K.G.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby determine and fix the land described in the schedule hereto to be a site for a Town within the meaning of the thirty-second section of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

STAFFORD.

Twenty-three (23) acres, more or less: Bounded on the westward by the Police Camp for a distance of four hundred and forty-nine (449) links; on the northward by a line bearing 309° 13' magnetic for a distance of one