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Otago Witness, Issue 480, 9 February 1861, Page 5

{From the Provincial Gazette, Feb. 5 and 7.) PROCLAMATION. By His Honor James Macakdkkw, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago WHER RAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, by and with the consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII., No. 7, intituled " An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisens," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for his Excellency the Governor, from time to time, as to him shall seem meet, by proclamation to declare any house, building, enclosure, or place -to be a Public Gaol ; and from and after the publication of any such proclamation, such house, building, enclosure, or place shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Gaol. And whereas by another Ordinance, enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice of the Provincial Council thereof, Session 1., No. 6, entituled " An Ordinance to Empower the Superintendent of the Province of Otago to perform certain acts heretofore performed by the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, and by the Resident Magistrate of Otago ; it is provided that all such powers as are conferred by the Ordinance enumerated in the schedule thereto appended upon the Governor-in-Chief, Governor, or LieutenantGovernor, or the Officer administering the Government of the Colony or Province for the time being, are thereby, within the Province of Otago, conferred on the Superintendent thereof: And whereas the Ordinance aforesaid is included in the said schedule : And whereas there is no suitable accommodation for Debtors within the present Gaol Buildings at Dunedin, and it is expedient that proper provision shall be made in that behalf: Now, thekkfohe, I, the said Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby and declare that Carisbrook House shall be deemed and taken to be one of the Gaols of the Colony of New Zealand, until proper provision is made otherwise in that behalf. Given under my hand and seal, at Dunedin, in the Province of (L.S.) Otago, this twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. James Macandhew, Superintendent^ INTER-COLONIAL STEAM SERVICE. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, made the thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, Between Samuel, Clark, of Sydney, New South Wales, Gentleman. Attorney of and for the Inter-Colonial Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, limited, duly appointed bj- power of attorney, under the common Seal of the said Company, dated the seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, of the one part, and His Honor James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, New Zealand, of the other part : Wherkas the said Samuel Clark, as the Attorney of the said Company, has offered to run a Monthly Mail Service, by means of first-class steamers, between Melbourne, in the colony of Victoria, and the Provinces of Canterbury and Otago, in New Zealand, for the period of Two years, from the first day of January instant, for a joint annual subsidy of Three Thousand and Five Hundred Pounds. And whereas the said offer has been accepted by the said Provincial Governments respectively, and the said Provincial Government of Otago have agreed to pay to the said Company the annual sum of Two Thousand Pounds for the said period of two years as their quota of the said subsid3' upon the terms and under and subject to the covenants, provisos, and agreements hereinafter contained. Now these presents witness, that in pursuance of the said agreement, and in consideration of the annual subsidy of Two Thousand Pounds to be paid in manner hereinafter mentioned, the said Samuel Clark, as attorney of and for the said Company, hereby covenants and agrees (subject to the sanction and approval of the General Board of Directors of the said Company in London) to and with the said James Macandrew, Superintendent as aforesaid, and the Provincial Government of Otago, as follows, namely — That the said Company 6hall and will establish and maintain a monthly mail service, by means of the first-class steamers Victory and Prince Alfred, or other first-class steamers of equal capacity, tonnage, and horse-power, between Melbourne, aforesaid, and the Port of Otago in the said Province of Otago, and the Port of Lyttleton in the said province of Canterbury, for the said period of two years, to be computed from the said first day of January, instant. And that -the steamers performing the said service shall leave the Port of Melbourne every month within twenty-four hours after the arrival there of the mail from England ; provided that such arrival shall take place before the sixteenth day of every month, beyond which time the said vessels shall not be bound to wait for the said mail ; and shall make the Port of Otago the first principal port of arrival and the last of departure to 'Melbourne, aforesaid; and shall call on their way to and from ( Hago, at the Bluff Harbour, in the said Province of Otago, for the purpose of landing passengers and mails; provided that in case the Provincial Governments of Otago shall at any time hereafter require that the vessels performing the said service shall not call at the Bluff Harbour for the purposes aforesaid ; then and in such case the said vessels shall not call at the said Harbour for the purposes aforesaid, or either of them. And further, that the vessels performing the said service, shall remain in the said Port of ( Hago for the period of forty-eight hours, at the least, on their return* voyage from Lyttelton. And the said Samuel Clark hereby further agrees that, whenever goods are l'eady to be shipped to and from Melbourne and Otago, within forty-eight hours of the time appointed for the sailing of the said vessels, such goods, to the extent of one-half the carrying capacity of the said vessels, shall on every such occasion be received on board the said vessels and conveyed to their destination. And the said Samuel Clark hereby further ' agrees, that the maximum rate to be charged for the freight of goods by the said vessels to and from Melbourne and Otago, as well by measurement as by weight, shall be Two pounds; ten shillings, per ton ; and that the freight for horses, and other live stock, shall be such as may be agreed upon. And that the rates of passage money from Melbourne to the Uluff and Dunedin, and vice versa, shall be, in the Chief Cabin, Fiftken Pounds : and in the second Cabin, Eight pounds. • And in consi duration of the premises and of the services to be performed by the said Company, in pursuance of these presents, he, the said James Macandrew, Superintendent, as afore : f said, for himself and the Provincial Government of Otago, doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Samuel Clark, Attorney of and for the said Company, that he