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REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE AND
DISPOSAL OF THE WASTE LANDS OF
THE CROWN WITHIN THE PROVINCE
OF NELSON.

I.—GENERAL.

1. All regulations now in force in the Province of Nelson for the sale, letting, disposal,
   and occupation of the waste lands of the crown
   (except such regulations as are hereinafter
   confirmed), are hereby repealed from and after
   the day when these regulations shall come into
   operation, and all such waste lands shall, from
   and after such day, be sold and disposed of
   according to these regulations, and not
   otherwise.

II.—SURVEYS AND RESERVES.

2. No lands, other than those heretofore
   surveyed by the New Zealand Company or
   under the authority of the General Government
   before these regulations shall have come in
   force, shall be offered for sale in any district
   until the principal surveyor of the General
   Government within the province, or other
   officer duly authorized in that behalf, shall
   have notified to the Superintendent that the
   native title has been extinguished in such district, and shall have transmitted, with such
   notification, an outline map, signed by such
   surveyor or other officer, and distinguished by
   some number or mark, showing the boundaries
   of the district and of the lands (if any) reserved
   within such district for the use of the natives,
   and exhibiting, so far as practicable, the
   character and natural features of the lands
   included in such district, accompanied by such
   written information relating thereto as cannot
   be conveyed by a map.

3. So soon as such notification and map
   shall have been received, proper surveys shall,
   with all convenient speed, be made in such
   district; and the Superintendent, with the
   advice and consent of his Executive Council,
   shall divide the same into counties and hundreds, and shall from time to time make
   reserves for the sites of towns and villages, or
   for lines of internal communication, whether
   by roads, canals, railways, or otherwise; or
   for the laying out of drains around or through
   districts which are of a swampy character, or
   for quays and landing-places, or for the general
   convenience of trade and navigation; or as the
   sites of churches, court-houses, markets, hospitals, prisons, or other public edifices; or as
   cemeteries; or as places necessary for the
   embellishment or health of towns, or the
   recreation of the inhabitants thereof; or otherwise for any purpose of public utility, convenience, or enjoyment.

4. One thirty-second part of land, of average
   value in every district, shall also be set apart
   and reserved as an endowment for the purposes
   of education.

5. All such reserves shall be notified in the
   Government Gazette of the province, and the
   lands so reserved (except such as shall be
   reserved for towns or villages, or for
   purposes of education), and all roads, or reserves for roads, streets, and squares throughout
   the province, shall be vested in the Superintendent under "The Public Reserves Act,
   1854"; and all reserves for purposes of education shall be vested in an Education Board,
   lawfully constituted.

6. The Governor will make such reserves
   for purposes of military defence, or for the
   civil service and use of the General Government, as he shall deem expedient.

7. Reserves, lines of road, and sections shall
   be laid down on the proper maps of each district, each section in a district having a distinguishing number or mark. A separate plan
   shall be made of each town site.

8. Roads and streets shall not be less than
   one chain in width, except where local circumstances shall render an adherence to this rule
   impracticable.

9. In laying out sections, the following
   rules shall be adhered to as nearly as
   possible:—

10. Every section shall front on a road.

11. Road and water frontages and natural
    advantages shall be equally distributed.

12. Road frontage shall not exceed two-
    thirds of the depth of a section, except
    where a road intersects a section.

13. Natural boundaries shall be taken advantage of.

14. Except in the case of natural boundaries, the sections shall be rectilinear.

15. Sections, of town, suburban, and mineral
    land, may be of such size as the Superintendent,
    acting with the advice of his Executive Council
    and the Commissioner of Crown Lands, shall
    from time to time determine. No section of
    rural land shall be less than ten, nor more
    than one hundred and fifty acres; nor of pasture land less than eighty, nor more than four
    hundred acres. Within the above limits any
    section may at any time previous to sale be
    altered or subdivided by the Superintendent,
    with the advice of his Executive Council and
    the Commissioner of Crown Lands, but no
    alteration shall take place between the time of
    advertising the same for sale and the time of
    sale: provided always, that under special
    circumstances proprietors may be permitted to
    complete their properties by the purchase of
    adjoining lands in blocks of irregular shape
    not exceeding forty acres, which, at the option
    of the applicant, will be either put up to auction
    or taken by him at a fixed price, to be assessed
    by the Superintendent acting as aforesaid, and
    having relation to the average value of land of
    the same character.