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AMENDED REGULATIONS

For the Disposal, Sale, Letting, and Occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of Canterbury.

67. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive right in connection with purchased lands, whether under the Canterbury Association or the Crown, shall, from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to be pasturage licenses over the lands included therein upon the terms of these Regulations with a pre-emptive right over all such land, to be exercised subject to these Regulations as regards notice of application, payment of deposit, purchase money, price of land, and size and shape of blocks. If the land covered by such pre-emptive right shall be included within the limits of a run held by license under clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof in paying rent for the same may take credit for the amount paid by him in respect of lands covered by such pre-emptive right.

68. Holders of pasturage licenses without pre-emptive right shall be entitled to hold such licenses or to have them renewed upon the terms of their contract with the Canterbury Association or the Crown, as the case may be, but if any person holding a license under the Canterbury Association or the Crown shall voluntarily resign the same, he shall be entitled to receive a license under these Regulations, and shall from the date of such exchange hold his run at the rate and on the conditions specified in these Regulations.

PUBLIC HOLIDAY.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 4th August, 1856.

WHEREAS a definitive Treaty of Peace between Her Majesty and Her Allies, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, was concluded at Paris, on the 30th day of March last, and the ratifications thereof have been duly exchanged: His Excellency the Governor, in order to afford the inhabitants an opportunity of commemorating so propitious an event, has been pleased to direct that throughout the Province of Auckland, Wednesday the 13th instant shall be observed as a Public Holiday, and that throughout each of the other Provinces of this Colony, such day as the Superintendent of such Province may appoint after the receipt of this Gazette shall be observed in like manner.

By His Excellency’s command,

C. W. RICHMOND,

Colonial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, August 30, 1856.

In pursuance of the foregoing direction of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, His Honor the Superintendent has been pleased to appoint Monday, the 8th September next, to be observed as a Public Holiday.

JOSEPH BRITTAN,

Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 4th July, 1856.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the name of the undermentioned gentleman should be added to the Commission of the Peace for the Province of Canterbury.

Joseph Brittan, Esq.,

By His Excellency’s command,

C. W. RICHMOND,

Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 29th July, 1856.

THE Governor directs it to be notified for general information that Richard Westenra, Esq., having requested that his name should be removed from the Commission of the Peace for the Province of Canterbury, His Excellency has complied with his request.

By His Excellency’s command,

C. W. RICHMOND,

Colonial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, Aug. 30, 1856.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication for general information of the “Customs Duties Act,” 1856.

JOSEPH BRITTAN,

Provincial Secretary.

An Act to Alter the Duties of Customs.

(Assented to 11th August, 1856.)

WHEREAS it is expedient to alter the Duties of Customs payable on the importation of Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, into the Colony of New Zealand:

Be it therefore enacted by the Gene...