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of the powers delegated to them by the Governor in Council in that behalf, make certain regulations under the said fourteenth section of " The Gold Fields Act, 1866," for the depasturing of stock upon the lands described in the First and Second Schedules to the said Proclamation : And whereas it is expedient to alter the said regulations so made by the said Executive Government of the said Province of Otago in certain particulars : 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, do hereby proclaim and declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the said regulations so made by the said Executive Government of the Province of Otago as aforesaid shall be altered by substituting the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Provincial District of Otago for the Superintendent wherever the word Superintendent occurs in the said regulations ; and I do hereby further proclaim and declare that the said regulations shall henceforth he read and construed as if wherever in the said regulations the word Superintendent occurs the words " Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Provincial District of Otago for the time being" had been inserted in lieu thereof; and Ido hereby order and declare that all powers and authorities hy virtue hereof and of the said regulations to be exercised by the said Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be so exercised, subject to the consent and approval ofthe Waste Lands Board ofthe said Provincial District of Otago. 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 Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and 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 sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. Gpo. McLean. God save the Queen !

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