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AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
VOL. I.] AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, OCT. 7, 1853. [No. 2.
Auckland, October 4, 1853.
The following Circular Despatches are published for general information.
R. H. WYNYARD,
Superintendent.
(Circular.)
Civil Secretary’s Office, Wellington,
12th August, 1853.
No. 1046.
Sir—I have appeared to Governor Sir George Grey that it may often be for the interest of a particular Province, with a view to encourage the occupation of the Land, to undertake Surveys upon a larger scale than the receipts of the Land Fund would at the time justify the General Government in undertaking.
In such cases the Provincial Council might feel disposed to make advances from the Share of the General Revenue, which they are empowered to administer, for the purpose of increasing the Survey Staff and expediting the Surveys, relying upon the probable increase of the Land Fund from such a measure, for the reimbursement of the expenses incurred in carrying out this plan.
The Commissioner of Crown Lands has accordingly received instructions that, if the Provincial Government should at any time undertake to pay the additional expense of the Survey Establishment, if increased beyond the limits which His Excellency has authorized, the Establishment is to be immediately augmented to such an extent as your Honour may guarantee the expense of. All the costs of the augmentation to the fixed Establishment must be paid directly by the Provincial Government, and not by the Commissioner. Even if the Land Fund should increase to such an extent as to enable the extra expense to be defrayed from it, that officer is not to appropriate it to such a purpose until His Excellency’s authority has been received, but must disburse the Fund in the proportions directed by the general instructions on the subject.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.
His Honour the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.
(Circular.)
Civil Secretary’s Office, Wellington,
12th August, 1853.
No. 1058.
Sir—In reference to the Circular Letter of the number and date quoted in the margin,* on the subject of the appropriation of the Land Fund of the Province, I am directed by Governor Sir George Grey to acquaint your Honour, that care must be taken against guaranteeing the payment of Half of the Passage-money for “Assisted Passages” to such an extent as to incur at any time a greater liability on this account than can be met by the Funds applicable for that purpose at the date of entering into each of such engagements.
The Commissioner of Crown Lands has received a communication to this effect, and has been further instructed, that as soon as your Honour shall have notified to him that the Provincial Council have agreed to a Resolution to the effect that they are desirous of undertaking the management of that portion of the Land Fund which under the
- Circular, No. 1006, 5th August 1853.
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