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Onehunga | The Court House, Onehunga | The Court House, Onehunga

Pensioner Settlements | Panmure, The Police Station
| Otahuhu, The Police Station
| Howick, The Court House | The Police Station, Panmure

G. Grey, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington,
the eleventh day of January, 1866.

Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled,
“The Bay of Islands Settlement Act, 1858,”
the Governor was empowered to set apart,
on the western side of the Bay of Islands, an eligible site for colonization, and to take for such Settlement certain land in the said Act specified, and within such Settlement to cause a town to be surveyed and laid out, and also suburban and rural allotments; and it is further provided by the said Act, that all such town, suburban, and rural lands shall be let, sold, occupied, and disposed of, for such prices, in such manner, for such purposes, upon such laws, and subject to such regulations, as the Governor in Council shall from time to time prescribe for that purpose.

And whereas by an Order in Council, made at the Government House, at Auckland, on the 19th day of April, 1864, certain regulations were made under the said recited Act,

And whereas it is expedient to amend the said regulations:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in exercise of the above power, doth, by this present Order, make the following additional regulations for the purposes hereinbefore recited:

1. The following proviso shall be deemed and taken to have been added to No. 3 of the said regulations, and shall be read and construed as part thereof:

Provided always that in any case in which a child under eighteen years of age shall accompany a parent, the parent, and not the child, shall be entitled to the land; and in cases in which a servant shall be brought into the settlement at the sole expense of a master, the master, and not the servant, shall be entitled to the land.

The following clauses, numbered respectively 14 and 15, shall be deemed and taken to have been added to the said regulations, and shall be read and construed as part of the said regulation, after clause 13 thereof:

14. It shall be lawful for the Governor, out of the said block of land, to reserve portions of land, not exceeding two thousand acres in all, on which land orders granted under “The Waste Lands Act, 1858,” may be exercised:

Provided always that no such land order shall be so exercised, unless upon the approval of the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, such approval to be signified by the endorsement of the said Superintendent’s signature upon the order:

Provided also that no person who shall have selected land in virtue of this regulation shall be entitled to a Crown Grant thereof, unless he shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Commissioner, or of his deputy, that he has resided on the said land, or on the block of land set apart for the purposes of “The Bay of Islands Settlement Act,” for a period of twelve months at least, or that he has resided in the Province of Auckland for a period of twenty-four months.

15. It shall be lawful to reserve or except all coal and coal mines under or on land to be selected and granted under these regulations, and all powers usually retained by or given to the owners of coal and coal mines for mining and working the same, under or on land whereof the surface is the property or in the occupation of other persons, may be reserved or given to such person or persons as the Governor may appoint; and it shall also be lawful to resume and take any portion of land, selected or granted under these regulations, which may be required for surface operations in mining or working such coal or coal mines.