Westland Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 42

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✨ Proclamation and Delegation of Powers

THE
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF WESTLAND.

Published by Authority.

All Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be duly respected.

By His Honor’s command,

CHARLES WOOLCOCK,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. I.] HOKITIKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1874. [No. 42

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the 13th 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 all persons using the same as he shall deem reasonable, and the Governor in Council may, from time to time, make, alter and revoke regulations for collecting such tolls, and for preventing the evasion thereof, and generally for the control and management of the said roads, bridges, wharves, ferries, or other public works, and such regulations, upon and after being published in the Gazette of the Province to which they may apply, shall have the force of law:

And whereas by the 109th 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 2nd day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 18, of the 26th February, 1874, His Excellency the Governor did, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony, delegate unto me, James Alexander Bonar, Superintendent of the Province of Westland, all the powers vested in the Governor

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