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Collection, the proportion of the Balance due to each Province during the quarter; any balance which may then be found due to any Province in addition to the two-thirds of its Revenue already paid, will thereupon be paid over to the Treasurer of the Province, or to the Provincial Account at the Union Bank of Australia.

In like manner if from the anticipated increase in the Revenue of the Colony, it should shortly be found that the proportion of the Revenue to which each Province is entitled, exceeds two-thirds of the Revenue collected therein, arrangements will immediately be made for altering the amount to be paid from two-thirds to such sum as each Province may be found to be entitled to.

I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your Honor’s most obedient humble servant,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.

His Honor the Superintendent
of the Province of Auckland.

Civil Secretary’s Office, Wellington,
8th August, 1853.

SIR,—I am directed by Governor Sir GEORGE GREY to acquaint your Honor that, until further provision is made by the General Assembly, the Land Fund of the Province will be appropriated in the following manner.

2. One-fourth of the gross proceeds of Lands Sold, or Let, in the manner stated in the 74th clause of the New Zealand Constitution Act, will be retained for the benefit of the New Zealand Company.

3. The remaining three-fourths of such gross proceeds, together with the proceeds arising from the Rents of Crown Lands, from the Fees on Crown Grants, &c., &c., &c., will be subject, in the first place, to deductions for the cost of the Land Department, Surveys, &c., as also for such proportion of the Land Fund as the Commissioners may be directed to deduct for the payments to the Aborigines for the purchase of their Lands.

4. After these deductions have been made, the Balance remaining is to be divided into two equal parts, one of which is to be retained by the Commissioner for Emigration purposes, while the other part will be paid over, at the close of each month to the Provincial Treasurer, or to the Provincial Account at the Union Bank of Australia.

5. The General Government will, for the present, apply the proportion of the Land Fund applicable to Emigration purposes, in accordance with the terms of the Proclamation of the 4th of March, 1853. But if the Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland would prefer having any alteration made in this arrangement, the Governor will be prepared to consider any representations, which you may, in behalf of that Body, make to His Excellency upon the subject.

It must however be understood, that if any portion of the Province is proclaimed a Hundred, nothing contained in the foregoing paragraphs will prevent the Governor under the authority of the Royal Instructions of the 12th of August, 1850, from authorising the application of any proportion not exceeding one-third of the gross proceeds of the Sales of Crown Lands within such Hundred, to such purposes as shall be signified to him by the Wardens of that Hundred.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your Honor’s most obedient humble servant,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.

His Honor the Superintendent
of the Province of Auckland.

NOTICE.

UNTIL further notice, it is requested that all letters or communications for the Superintendent, may be left at the Council Chamber in charge of the messenger.

R. H. WYNyard,
Superintendent.

Auckland, 6th Sept., 1853.

Printed and Published by WILLIAMSON & WILSON for the Provincial Government.