✨ Mining Lease Proclamation
No. 27.
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1872.
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 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 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-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, I intend to demise to the persons named in the schedule hereunto annexed certain auriferous Crown Lands, of alluvial ground for the term specified in the said schedule.
Given under my hand at Hokitika, this seventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
H. H. LAHMAN.
SCHEDULE.
Name—John Owen.
Situation—Foot of Bowen Terrace.
Area—1a. 1r. 10p.
Term—Fifteen years.
Hokitika, 8th November, 1872.
IN exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by the “Gold Mining Lease Regulations,” I hereby declare that the
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Mining Lease, Gold Fields Act, Auriferous Crown Lands, Westland County
- John Owen, Recipient of mining lease
- Henry Hermann Lahman, Chairman of the County Council of Westland