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transfers of any interest in the claim to be registered.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this
eleventh day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two.

H. H. LAHMAN.

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,
forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hun-
dred 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 Zea-
land, did, on the twenty-seventh day of Janu-
ary, 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, Chair-
man of the County Council 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 Westland,
in exercise of the powers vested in me in that
behalf, do hereby give notice that on the
twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two, I intend to demise
to the persons named in the schedule hereto
annexed certain auriferous Crown Lands
containing quartz lodes or veins for the terms
specified in the said schedule, and subject to
the undermentioned conditions, until the
reef is proved payable.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this
seventh day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two.

H. H. LAHMAN.

Name of Lessee.—Reverson and Co.
Situation.—W. of Stillwater, on Coal
Reserve.
Area.—400 yards x 200 yards.
Term.—Fifteen Years.

SCHEDULE OF CONDITIONS.

1. There shall be for the first two months
   no more than two men employed in pro-
   specting, and subsequently no more than three
   men.

2. That clauses 21, 26 and 27, of the
   Mining Lease Regulations shall not be
   enforced.

3. That the rent per acre shall not exceed
   one pound (£1).

4. The above conditions to be null and void
   on the reef being proved to be payable.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the twelfth section of
"The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Gover-
nor, 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 opera-
tions under circumstances of extraordinary
difficulty, or involving the expenditure of
considerable sums of money, or for the en-
couragement 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 Gover-
nor by the said Act, except the powers
conferred by sections twenty-two, forty,
forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hun-
dred and seven thereof, subject or not to any
limitations or restrictions as he may think fit: