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New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 684, 23 January 1866, Page 4

PLEUJIO-PNEUMONIA REGULATIONS. Judging, from repeated enquiries made to us, by country subscribers, ou the above subject, that it would be interesting to our country readers to know what are the regulations issued under the Diseased Cattle Act, 1861, at present in existence in this Province, we publish them from the Auckland Provincial Gazette of the 22nd of August, 1864. The subscribers to the JNnw Zealand Hekald have received since the commencement of the present year, and will continue to receive, gratis,copies of the Provincial Gazettes as they are published. The want of accurate knowledge, on this one point, felt by so many, shows how-great is the accommodation to the public afforded by the gratis circulation of the Provincial Gazette. PKOCIAMATIOX. By Robert Gruh.im, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in tlie Colony of New Zealand. "Whereas, hy a warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, bearing date the fifteenth day of September, 18C3, the saitl Governor, with the advice and consent of tho Executive Council, delegated to the Superintendent of the Province <.t Auckland certain powers conferred upon him by the " Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," subject to certain regulations to be made by the Governor in Council under tho said recited Act: Now, therefore, I, Robert Graham, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in pursuance of such delegation, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof, the Province of Auckland shall be and he deemed to be an Infected District, within the meaning of tho " Diseased Cattle Act, 1S(>1." And in further pursuance of such delegation, I, the said 'Superintendent, do hereby make and ordain the following regulations, which shall ho in foiee in the said district until further notice. EEGULATIO.VS. 1. The said proclaimed district shall, for the purposes of the said Act, be called and known as the " Auckland District." 2. Any person who shall knowingly or wilfully drive over or along any road or highway cattle which may be infected with any infectious or contagious disease, shall bo liable to a penalty not exceeding £200. 3. Any person who shall knowingly keep in hi» possession or on his premises any cattle so infected, and shall not give notice to some Inspector appointed under the said Act, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £200. 4. It shall be lawful for any Inspector appointed under the said Act to enter upon all or any lands in any district which may have been declared to be an infected district in pursuance of the said Act, for the purpose of inspecting any cattle which may be on such lands ; and if any such Inspector shall find any cattle on sueh lands infected as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for him to give notice thereof to the owner of [ any such cattle, or tho porson having charge of the same, or the occupier of tho lands on which such cattle may be running or depasturing, and shall at

the sane time require any oi such, persons to foijj, with destroy any such cattle, ond to bury or bura til carcasses thereof to the satisfaction of such Inspector And if any person hcing thereto la-wfu'ly requirj eliaß refuse to carry out such direction or requisition, or shall neglect to do, so within a reasonable time after being so required, he shall forfeit and dst any penalty not exceeding £200. * 3 5. If any person shall refuse or neglect to kill or bury any such cattle as aforesaid, it shall be Uwfjji for any Inspector duly appointed under the said Act to take such steps as to him shall seem fit for des. , troying such cattle, and burying the car*asse3 thereof and all costs, charges, and expenses incurred by such Inspector in killing or burying any such ciftle shaU be paid by the person so neglecting or refusing to till or bury such cattle, and shall be recovered in addition and by the same means as any penalty inflicted by the said Act: Provided thatsach penalty together with, such' costs, charges, and expenses' shall not exceed in the -whole the sum of £200. ' 6. It shall be lawful for any Inspector under the said Act to tate such steps as to him shall seem fit for destroying all cattle which may be as aforesaid, wherever such cattle may be found, «d without giving such notice as aforesaid, and to tale the necessary steps for burying or burning the carcasses of any such cattle whenever they may be so destroyed. 7. It shall be lawful for any such Inspector as aforesaid to kill or cause io be killed any cattle which lie may have reason to suspect are infected as aforesaid, 8. It shall be lawful for any such Inspector to in! spect all or any public Slaughter Houses or other places where cattle are or may be slaughtered, for the purpose of examining the carcasEes of cattle there slaughtered j and if it shall appear to such Inspector that any carcasses are the carcasses of cattle infected as aforesaid, he shall causo such carcasses to be forthwith burned or buried. 9. No person in the District of Auckland, proclaimed as aforesaid, shall permit or suffer the carcasses of any cattle infected or otherwise, to remain unburied or unburned on his premises, or on any land in his occupation for a longer period than 12 hours and any person offending against this Regulation' shall forfeit and pay any penalty not exceeding £50 J Provided that this Regulation shall not extend to cases of cattle slaughtered for the purposes of human food. 10. Any person who shall wilfully obstruct, im. pede, or interfere with any Inspector in the lawful discharge of his duty, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £200. 11. All Regulations heretofore made in "pursuance of the aforesaid power are hereby rescinded, and the Regulations hereby proclaimed shall continue in force until further noticc. Given under my hand, at Auckland, this twentieth day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. Bosket Gkaham, Superintendent.