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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, August 21, 1849.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR has been pleased to direct the re-publication, from the New Ulster Government Gazette, of the following additional instructions under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, also of a Proclamation referring to the Act to provide for the carriage of Passengers by sea, for general information.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to our Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor-in-Chief for the time being; To our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Ulster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being; To our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being; or to Our Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Lieutenant-Governor for the time being: or to our Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Lieutenant-Governor for the time being. Given at our Court at Windsor, the twenty-seventh day of January, 1849, in the twelfth year of our Reign.

WHEREAS, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and enacted in the ninth and tenth years of our Reign, intituled “An Act to make further Provision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands,” the said Islands by certain letters patent under the Great Seal of our United Kingdom, bearing date the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in the tenth year of Our Reign, were erected into a separate colony and the powers of government were by the said Act vested: And Whereas, in further pursuance of the said Act and exercise of the powers thereby in Us vested, and in exercise of all and every other the powers in Us in that behalf vested, We did further issue certain Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, approved in Our Privy Council or referred to in such Letters Patent as relation being had unto the said Letters Patent and Instructions will more fully and at large appear: And Whereas it is directed, by the twenty-second section of the thirteenth chapter of the said Instructions, being the chapter entitled “On the settlement of the Waste Lands of the Crown,” that “no rural allotment within the said demesne shall exceed in extent one square mile; but it shall be competent to any such Governor or Lieutenant-Governor to divide any such allotment for the purpose of such alienation aforesaid into allotments of one-half or of one-quarter of a square mile.” And Whereas it is further directed by the Twenty-fourth Section of the said chapter, that “no part of the demesne of Us in right of Our Crown in New Zealand shall be alienated, either in perpetuity or otherwise, either absolutely or conditionally, until after the same shall first have been put up to sale at a Public Auction of which Auction three calendar months’ notice shall first have been given by such Proclamation as aforesaid.” And whereas it is further directed by the Twenty-eighth Section of the said chapter, that “it shall be competent to any person within three calendar months next after any such Auction to become, without any further Auction, the purchaser of any lands so put up to sale as aforesaid, and not then sold, by offering and paying for the same the upset price at which the same may have been so put up in Sale.” And whereas by the said recited Letters it is enacted that it shall be lawful for Us from time to time to amend, and for that purpose to add to, or if necessary repeal any such Instructions, directions and authorities it hath appeared to Us expedient to amend our said Instructions by repealing the said recited provisions and substituting others for them respectively:

Now therefore, by virtue of the power in Us by the said Act vested, We do hereby declare Our Will and Pleasure that the said recited provisions shall be, and they are hereby respectively repealed.

And that in lieu of the said repealed Twenty-second Section the following directions shall be and the same are hereby added to the said Instructions:—“It shall be competent for the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of any such Province, with the advice of his Executive Council to alienate the whole of the said demesne, providing that no such allotment shall exceed the size of one square mile.”

And that in lieu of the said recited Twenty-fourth Section, the following directions shall be and the same are hereby added to the said Instructions:—“No part of the demesne of Us in right of Our Crown in New Zealand shall be alienated, either in perpetuity or otherwise, either absolutely or conditionally, until after the same shall first have been put up to sale at a public auction.”