✨ Proclamation of Gold Fields Act Delegation
No. 17.
85
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1872.
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 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 Westland, all the powers vested in the Governor under or by virtue of “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 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 Westland, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me, do hereby grant unto Card Brothers protection for a track about fifteen chains long, commencing at the Cocka-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 cease on the 31st December, 1872.
Given under my hand at Hokitika, this first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
H. H. LAHMAN.
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Westland Provincial Gazette 1872, No 17
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🏛️ Delegation of Powers under the Gold Fields Act
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration1 July 1872
Proclamation, Delegation of Powers, Gold Fields Act, Public Works, Tolls
- Henry Hermann Lahman, Delegated powers under the Gold Fields Act
- H. H. Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland