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vested in and delegated to me in this behalf do hereby grant unto the Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company a special claim of ten acres, situated at Callaghan’s Gully, Waimea District, subject to the undermentioned conditions:

Conditions recommended for Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company for Special Claim at Callaghan’s Gully, Waimea District.

1. The claim to be surveyed at the expense of the Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company.

2. Four men per acre to be constantly employed in the claim. (This condition may be temporarily relaxed at the discretion of the Warden of the District).

3. The said Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company shall pay a yearly rent of One Pound per acre in half-yearly payments in advance.

4. The said Company shall have no right to sell or otherwise dispose of any part of the claim. This condition is not to affect the right to sell or dispose of shares.

5. The said Company shall comply with the directions of the Warden of the District as regards the working of the claim.

6. Clauses 25, 29, and 30 of the “Mining Lease Regulations, 1871,” to be complied with by the Company.

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 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 shall have the force of law:

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-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 13, 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 under or by the virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866,” except the powers conferred by Sections twenty-two, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of the said Act, to have, hold, and exercise the said powers hereby delegated to me within the Province of Westland: Provided always that copies of all rules and regulations made under the delegation aforesaid, shall be forthwith transmitted to the Colonial Secretary, in order that the same may be laid before the General Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of the one hundred and tenth clause of “The Gold Fields Act, 1866:”

Now therefore, I, James Alexander Bonar, Superintendent of the Province of Westland, in exercise of the powers in that behalf vested in and delegated to me, do hereby notify that I have appointed the undermentioned person to be a toll collector at the ferry set opposite his name, on the terms as stated below, and subject to the “Westland Ferries Ordinance, 1875,” and also to the conditions as published in the Provincial Gazette No. 13, of the 29th April, 1874, and do hereby authorise the collection of the undermentioned tolls.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika this 26th day of July, 1875.

J. A. BONAR.