FORM OF DECLARATION AND AGREEMENT.

I do hereby declare that I fully understand the "Conditions" hereunto annexed, and I do engage and agree to be bound thereby, and punctually on my part to fulfil all the terms thereof.

SETTLERS GENERALLY.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 3rd August, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following Conditions upon which land situated in the Waikato country, in the Province of Auckland, will be granted to settlers willing to perform the after-mentioned Military services.

ALFRED DOMETT.

NEW ZEALAND.

CONDITIONS upon which land in the Waikato country, in the Province of Auckland, will be granted to settlers willing to perform the after-mentioned Military services:—

1. No man above the age of 40 years will be accepted, and every applicant will be subject to an examination by an officer appointed by the Governor, and must produce such certificates of good character, health, and general fitness for the service, as such officer shall require.

2. Each accepted applicant will be provided, at the expense of the Government, with a passage to Auckland. Before embarkation, he will be required to sign a declaration and agreement to the effect that he understands and will be bound by and fulfil these conditions.

3. On arrival at Auckland, the men will be enrolled in the Militia for service in the Province, and formed into companies; constituted as nearly as may be as follows:

1 Captain
1 Subaltern
5 Sergeants
5 Corporals
100 Privates.

4. Each man according to his rank will be entitled to pay, rations, and allowances, until he is authorized by the Government to take possession of his land, when he will be relieved from "actual service."

5. Settlements will be surveyed and marked out at the expense of the Government.

6. Each settlement will comprise not less than 100 town allotments, and 100 farm sections.

7. A stockade on the most eligible site in each settlement will be erected at the expense of the Government.

8. A town will be laid out around, or as near as conveniently may be to the stockade, in one acre allotments.

9. Farms will be laid out around, or as near as conveniently may be to the town. The sizes of the farm section allotted to each will be according to his rank in the Militia:

For a Field Officer - 400 acres.
" Captain - 300 "
" Surgeon - 250 "
" Subaltern - 200 "
" Sergeant - 80 "
" Corporal - 60 "
" Private - 50 "

10. Every settler under these conditions, who upon being relieved from actual service, receives a certificate of good conduct, will be entitled to one town allotment and one farm section.

11. Priority of choice for each rank will be determined by lot.

12. After taking possession he will be entitled to receive rations, free of cost for twelve months, upon the same scale as supplied to Her Majesty’s troops; he will be allowed to retain possession, as a militiaman, of his arms and accoutrements, and he will be supplied with ammunition for use according to militia regulations.

13. No settler after taking possession will be permitted during the first three years after his enrolment in the Militia to absent himself from his settlement for more than one calendar month in any one year without the leave of the Governor first obtained.

14. During such three years he will be liable to be trained and exercised as other militiamen; and whenever a portion only of the Militia shall be called out for actual service, each settler will be deemed to be a Volunteer Militiaman, and will be required to serve as such within the Province. During such service he will be entitled to the same pay, rations, and allowances as other militiamen.

15. On the expiration of three years from his enrolment, each settler, having fulfilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant of the town allotment and farm section allotted to him; and will thenceforth be subject only to the same Militia services as other colonists.

16. Any settler will be permitted to dispose of his land to any person approved of by the Government; and such person undertaking to be subject to the same liabilities will be entitled to the same privileges as the settler whose place he takes.