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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT SURVEYS.

Any Person desirous of Contracting for Surveys, will make application to the Surveyor-
General, who, after informing himself as to the qualifications of the applicant, will grant him a
License.

When such Licensed Surveyor is about to undertake a Survey, his License will have to
be deposited with the Surveyor-General, and will not be returned to him should his Survey be
found incorrect or defective.

The following clause of the "Land Claims Ordinance," Session II, No. 14, clause 5, will
regulate the figure of the Block of Lands:

"5. The Land, to be granted at the recommendation of the Commissioners, may be selected
by the person entitled to such grant out of the Land claimed by him: Provided that the
Land so to be selected shall be in one Block, to be as nearly as possible a rectangular figure,
the breadth of which shall not be more than half its length: Provided also, that when the
Block so to be granted shall be bounded by the sea, or a river, the rectangle aforesaid shall
be so placed that the narrow side, or breadth, shall be bounded by the sea, or any such
river, and that the length of the rectangle, shall run back from the sea, or river, as near as
possible at right angles to their general direction.".

The land-selected by the claimant, is to be surrounded by a line cut through the existing
fern, tea-tree, or tupaki, or other shrubs, as well as through woods, and not to be less than
four feet wide; at every twenty chains upon such line, a hole is to be dug, three feet deep and
three feet in diameter: in the centre of such hole a picket is to be driven, and of such a height
that its top shall be on a level with the surrounding ground. In fern land, a stake will have
to be placed close beside the picket, and of such height that it shall be two feet, at least, above
the fern on either side—the top to be painted white to the depth of two feet.

Diverging from such holes in the direction of the boundary lines, two trenches will have to
be dug, three feet long, eighteen inches deep, and eighteen inches breadth, so as to point out
the course of the boundaries, Thus—

Where stones are conveniently to be procured, a heap of them will have to be placed over
such holes, trenches, and pickets, at the four corners of the Blocks surveyed, so as to point
them out, and preserve these land-marks from destruction.

SCALES.—The Surveys to be laid down on the following scales, according to their extent :—

• Under 100 acres, 2 chains to the inch.
• From 100 acres to 1000, 5 chains to the inch.
• From 1000 and upwards, 10 chains to the inch;

Except in cases especially excepted by the Surveyor-General the contracting Surveyor will
be required to perambulate and describe the boundaries of the entire quantity of land proved
before the Commissioner to have been purchased from the Natives, such description to be ac-
companied by a sketch, shewing the principal natural features of the country, in such a manner,
that they may in future be recognized by the Government Surveyors, and also the position of
the Block selected by the claimant.

The description of the Boundaries and Sketch of the Land Surveyed, with Notice of the
Nature of the Marks, duly declared to by the, Surveyor, will be required to be lodged in the
office of the Surveyor-General as a Public Record.