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value of the improvements thereon shall be
paid by the purchaser to the Commissioner
or other person duly authorized to receive the
same, immediately after the sale, or the deposit
will be forfeited and the whole transaction null
and void.

55. 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.

56. Where lands shall be purchased in dis-
    tricts in which all future lines of road have not
    been determined and laid out, a right of road
    will be reserved in the grant, and an allow-
    ance made to the purchaser for such reserve of
    five acres per cent. to purchasers of not more
    than five hundred acres, and three acres per
    cent. to purchasers of more than that quantity.

NAVAL AND MILITARY SETTLERS.

57. 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 may have served in New Zealand, can
    shall retire or obtain his discharge for the pur-
    pose of settling in New Zealand, shall, after a
    residence within the Province of Nelson for
    two years after discharge, be entitled to a
    money certificate to the amount of £200.

58. Warrant officers and seamen of her
    Majesty\'s navy, non-commissioned officers and
    privates in her Majesty\'s army or the Royal
    Marine, who, being on service in New Zealand
    or who may have served in New Zealand, shall
    obtain their discharge there, with good conduct
    certificates, shall, after a residence within the
    province of two years after discharge, be entitled
    to receive a money certificate to the following
    amount :—

Non-commissioned officers, or equivalent to
that rank in the sea service, £60.
Seamen, marines, and privates, £30.

59. Every such money certificate shall at
    any time be received instead of money, in pay-
    ment or part payment, as the case may be, of
    the purchase money of waste lands of the
    Crown purchased within the province.

SCRIP.

60. The scrip issued in satisfaction of claims
    under land-orders of the New Zealand Com-
    pany shall be taken in payment for town and
    suburban land, at the nominal value of such
    scrip in pounds sterling. In the purchase of
    any other land one pound in scrip shall repre-
    sent the selling price of one acre, when such
    selling price does not exceed twenty shillings,
    and in other cases shall represent its nominal
    value of one pound.

LEASING OF MINERAL LANDS.

61. Any person applying for a lease of land,
    for the purpose of working minerals, shall be
    entitled to the same upon the following terms
    and conditions.

62. The amount of land to be leased shall
    be determined by the Superintendent and the
    Land Commissioner; in no case to exceed two
    square miles.

63. The term to be granted shall be any
    number of years, at the option of the lessee,
    not exceeding twenty-one.

64. There shall be reserved a royalty or
    rent of one-fifteenth of the minerals raised.

65. The lease shall contain clauses in the
    usual form :—For securing the payment of the
    royalty or rent; for enabling some person on
    the part of the Government to enter and
    examine the mine; for securing the regular,
    proper, and efficient winning and working of
    the minerals; for making void the lease on
    breach of the stipulations on the part of the
    lessee therein contained; for delivering up the
    property at the termination of the lease in good
    tentable repair; for enabling the lessee to
    abandon the working of the minerals whenever
    he shall find the same unprofitable, and to sur-
    render the lease.

66. In the event of simultaneous applications
    for a lease of the mineral land, the same will
    be put up to auction, and the upset price for a
    lease of twenty-one years shall be a rent or
    royalty of one-fifteenth of the minerals to be
    raised. All applications made on the same
    day shall be deemed simultaneous applications.

67. Every applicant for a mining lease
    shall furnish to the Land Commissioner, at the
    time of making such application, a plan and
    description of the land applied for, which plan
    and description shall be made and prepared by
    a surveyor, to be approved of by the said Com-
    missioner.

68. The land, or any portion thereof, com-
    prised in a mining lease, not exceeding 640
    acres in any one block, shall, at the request of
    the lessee, at any time after the minerals shall
    have been worked for three years, be put up
    at an upset price of £1 per acre, subject to
    the lease thereof already granted.

69. A right-of-way will be reserved to lessees
    of mineral lands through the adjoining waste
    lands of the Crown, towards the most conve-
    nient place of shipment, or otherwise, as may
    be necessary for conveying away the produce;
    but such right-of-way will not be exclusively
    granted to any one lessee.

ISSUE OF TIMBER LICENSES.

70. Persons occupying waste land of the
    Crown, for the purpose of cutting timber, will
    be required to pay a fee of five pounds yearly
    to the Crown upon the issue of the license.