Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1856 – No. 2

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✨ Waste Lands Regulations

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. IV. NELSON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1856. No. 2.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Nelson, January 7, 1856.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Waste Lands Act, 1854, the following Regulations for the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Nelson, about to be proposed to the Provincial Council for adoption, are published for general information.

By His Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER,
Provincial Secretary.

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

I.—GENERAL.

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and occupation of the waste lands of the Crown (except such Regulations as are hereinafter confirmed), are hereby repealed from and after the day when these Regulations shall come into operation, and all such waste lands shall, from and after such day, be sold and disposed of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.

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, 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.
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, railways, or otherwise; or for the laying out of drains around or through districts which are of a swampy character; or for

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