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1. Subsidy to be £50 per annum.

2. A pole to be placed in such a position as to be easily seen on the opposite side of the river, on which, when the river is impassable, a red flag is to be hoisted by day, and a red light at night.

3. A board to be provided, and placed in a conspicuous position, having the conditions under which the protection is granted and the tolls chargeable legibly printed thereon.

SCHEDULE OF TOLLS.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by “The Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868, Amendment Act, 1869,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, at the time of making any Proclamation bringing “The Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868,” into operation in any Province, or at any time thereafter, to delegate all or any of the powers by the said Act vested in the Governor and exercisable by him within the Province in such Proclamation mentioned, except the powers conferred by the second section of the said Act to the Superintendent of the Province, in which the said Act shall be so brought into operation, or to any other person or persons, and such delegation from time to time to alter and revoke:

And whereas, by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-sixth day of September, 1870, and published in “The New Zealand Gazette,” No. 54, of the 30th September, 1870, His Excellency the Governor has declared that the said “Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868,” shall be in operation in the County of Westland on the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy:

And whereas, by an Order in Council, dated the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, did delegate unto me, Henry Lee Robinson, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, all the powers by “The Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868,” vested in the Governor and exercisable by him within the said County of Westland, except the powers conferred by the second section of the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Henry Lee Robinson, Chairman of the County Council of Westland, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me, do hereby proclaim that the bridge mentioned in the schedule hereto annexed shall be deemed to be a public bridge within the meaning of “The Bridges and Ferries Act, 1868,” and that the person mentioned in the said schedule shall be and he is hereby authorised to collect the tolls therein set forth, for the terms and upon the conditions in such schedule mentioned.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this fifteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

H. L. ROBINSON.

SCHEDULE.

ARAHURA BRIDGE.—T. W. HUNGERFORD.

Protection to date for one year from the date hereof.

N.B.—The above tolls to be charged only once in the day.

County Chairman’s Office,
Hokitika, September 15, 1873.

THE following Regulation of the Borough of Hokitika has been forwarded to the Chairman of the County Council who directs it to be notified that he does not dissent from it. It is published for general information under the 192nd clause of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.”

A. E. TENNANT,
County Secretary.

REGULATION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF HOKITIKA, MADE UNDER SCHEDULE 18, IN PURSUANCE OF SECTION NO. 192 OF “THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1867.”