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surveyed and offered for sale on the next day
of auction (with due notice) after such survey.
24. In the event of any land so applied for
not being sold when put up to auction, the
money deposited will be forfeited. But if such
land is then sold, the deposit will be returned,
or received as part of the purchase money, as
the case may be.
25. Commissioner of Crown Lands, or
some other person duly authorized by the Go-
vernor to act in that behalf, shall conduct all
sales by auction.
26. Immediate payment, in cash, of one-
tenth of the purchase-money, shall be the con-
dition of every sale by auction; and in default
thereof the land shall be again immediately put
up to auction; the remaining nine-tenths must
be paid by the purchaser within one calendar
month of the day of sale, or the one-tenth de-
posited will be forfeited, and the whole trans-
action null and void.
27. Any lands put up to auction, and not
sold, may, within six months next after such
day of auction, be purchased by any person
who shall pay for the same the original upset
price in full at the time of making such pur-
chase: provided there has been no bidding for
such lands, and in case of any bidding then
the highest price bid. Provided also that any
lands which may have been put up for sale,
and not sold before these Regulations have
come into operation, may be purchased in like
manner, until such lands have been again
offered by auction.
28. Provided also that whenever the title
to any native land shall have been extinguished,
it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall
think fit, to permit any of the native sellers to
purchase, at a price to be assessed in the same
manner as other crown lands, any portion of
such land, not being town or suburban land,
and the same may be conveyed by crown grant
accordingly.
29. Provided further, that in certain cases
where lands have been acquired by purchase
from the natives previous to the colonization
of the province by Europeans, or have been
occupied with the consent of the natives pre-
vious to the proclamation of Sir George Grey,
dated the 4th day of March, 1853, such per-
sons, or their descendants now in occupation
of such lands, shall be entitled to purchase the
said land or any portion thereof, not exceeding
in any case eighty acres, at the rate of ten
shillings per acre.
30. No portion of the land occupied by a
pasture license-holder, whereon a homestead
shall have been erected or improvements, made,
shall be offered for sale until the offer of pur-
chasing such land shall have been made to
such license-holder, at a price per acre assessed
within the limits of the upset price of the
class of land to which the land in question
may belong.
31. The license-holder in such case will be
entitled to purchase, upon the terms mentioned
in the preceding clause, a block of land not
exceeding eighty acres, containing his home-
stead and improvements; but he may be re-
quired to exercise his right of purchase at any
time after one month\'s notice.
32. In case of the license-holder declining
or neglecting to exercise his right of purchase,
the land on which his homestead stands may
be offered for sale; but in that case, the value
of the improvements thereon shall be assessed
in some equitable manner, the land shall be
offered for sale at a price made up of the upset
price of the land and the value of the improve-
ments. Should any other than the holder of
the license become the purchaser, the value of
his improvements will be paid to the license-
holder immediately after the sale; but should
there be no bidding for such homestead, the
license-holder will be required to purchase the
land at the upset price (minus the value of
his improvements) immediately after the sale;
should he not do so, the homestead may at any
time be sold at such price as may be deemed
expedient.
33. Whenever any portion of land com-
prised in any pasture license shall be purchased
by other than the holder of such license, it
shall be lawful for the Commissioner to delay
giving possession for any time not exceeding
three months, to afford such license-holder a
reasonable time for the removal of his pro-
perty.

V.—NAVAL AND MILITARY SETTLERS.

34. Any naval or military officer on full or
    half-pay, whether belonging to her Majesty\'s
    service or to that of the East India Company,
    who shall retire or obtain his discharge for the
    purpose of settling in New Zealand, shall be
    entitled to receive a money certificate to the
    amount of £300, on his signing, and depositing
    with the Commissioner of Crown Lands a
    memorandum, that by the acceptance of such
    certificate he holds himself to have come under
    an honourable engagement, and does accor-
    dingly engage, to reside within the Province
    of Nelson for the space of two years from the
    issue of such certificate.
35. Non-commissioned officers and privates
    in her Majesty\'s army or the Royal Marine,
    who, being on service in New Zealand, shall
    obtain their discharge (there such privates
    being discharged with good conduct certifi-
    cates), shall, after a residence within the
    province of one year after discharge, be en-
    titled to receive a money certificate to the
    following amount:—