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of stock upon any lands within proclaimed gold fields for which a lease or license for depasturing Eurposes has not been granted, or has been cancelled or suspended, aud to regulate the number of orses or cattle which may be run upon such lands by the holders of miners' rights or business licenses, or of mining, mineral, and agricultural leases, and to issue depasturing licenses, and to regulate the fees that shall be paid therefor: And whereas by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, made by the then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said province, and published in the Otago Provincial Gazette, No. 553, under the hand of the said Superintendent, certain regulations were made for the depasturing of stock upon the waste lands of the Crown within the Otago Gold Field : And whereas by Proclamation bearing date the sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, made by the aforesaid Superintendent, and published in the Olago Provincial Gazette, No. 572, the regulations of the twenty-third of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, were altered and amended; and whereas by Proclamation bearing date the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, made by the aforesaid Superintendent, and published in the Otago Provincial Gazette, No. 1012, the aforesaid regulations of the twenty-third of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, were further altered and amended so far as they relate to the Mount Benger Depasturing District, as the same is constituted and described in the Otago Provincial Gazette, No. 595, of the seventeenth day of February, one thousaird eight hundred arrd sixty-nine: And whereas it is expedient to further- amend the said regulations so far as they relate to the Mount Benger Depasturing District aforesaid: Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling me in that behalf, make the regulations hereinafter contained for the depasturing of stock within the Mount Benger Depasturing District, and declare that the said regulations shall take eft'ect from the date hereof, in addition to any other regulations at present in force within such district:— Additional \ .egulations. 1. No sheep or goats shall be depastured on such portion of the commonage as lies to the east of the Pomabaka Eiver. 2. No bull over the age of six months, or entire horse over the age of twelve months, shall be depastured on the common without the consent in writing of the Wardens. 3. Any person or persons desirous to remove cattle from the commonage shall, before doing so, give notice of such intention to the Charrman of the Board, and shall also give particulars of the brands of such cattle, and in removing same shall not drive or take away any other cattle. 4. It shall be lawful for the Board of Wardens to authorize a partial or general muster of the stock on the commonage or any part of it, and the owner or owners of stock being illegally depastured thereon shall be liable for the expenses incurred in so mustering. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ; and Baron Mulgrave of New Boss, iv the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Courrcil; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael arrd Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred arrd seventy-seven. Geo. McLean. God sate the Queen I

Constituting the Cardrona Depasturing District, and Regulations for the Depasturing of Stock therein

(1.5.) Normanbt, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas by the fourteenth section of "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make, alter, and revoke regulations for the depasturing of stock upon any lands within proclaimed gold fields for which a lease or license for depasturing purposes has not been granted, or has been cancelled or suspended, and to regulate the number of horses or cattle which may be run upon such lands by the holders of miners' rights or business licenses, or of mining, mineral, and agricultural leases, and to issue depasturing licenses, and to regulate the fees that shall be paid therefor : And whereas it is expedient that regulation should be made for the depasturing of stock upon that part of the waste lauds of the Crown within the Otago Gold Field known as the Cardrona District: Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantino, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, iv pursuance and exercise of the power and authority enabling me in this behalf, proclaim and declare that, from aird after the day of the date hereof, the district specified in the Schedule hereto shall be and is hereby constituted a depasturing district, and the regulations of the twenty-third day of June, one thousaiid. eight hundred and sixty-eight, with the exception of those numbered two, three, four, five, six, fourteen, and fifteen, as the same are published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette No 553 ; and also the regulations of the sixth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, with the exception of those numbered twentyone, twenty-two, and twenty-three, shall be the Depasturing Eegulations for the said district.

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