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the Governor, by any such private Contract, to effect any such Sale on such Terms
and Conditions as to him shall seem meet, provided that such Lands be not sold
for less than the lowest upset Price of Lands per Acre in the Colony in which the
same may be be situated, and provided that the Purchaser or Purchasers of any such
Lands shall not be entitled to any Survey thereof, except so far as may be neces-
sary to ascertain the external Marks and Bounds thereof.

XVI. And whereas it may be convenient that Means should be provided for Payments in
the Payment within the United Kingdom of the Purchase Money of Waste Lands the United Kingdom for
of the Crown within the said Colonies; And whereas by a Warrant under Her Land in the
Majesty's Sigif Maheel, Seating Date on the Tenth Day of January One thousand Colonies.
eight hundred and forty, Her Majesty was pleased to appoint certain Persons
therein named to be, during Her Majesty's Pleasure, Commissioners in the United
Kingdom, for the Sale of the Waste Lands of the Crown in Her Majesty's Colo-
mes, and for superintending the Emigration of Her Majesty's Subjects to such
Colonies; be it therefore enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall pay, for
the Purchase of Waste Lands of the Crown in any of Her Majesty's Australian
Colonies, any Sum or Sums of Money to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or to any Person or
Persons to be appointed by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or
any Three of them, to receive the same, the said Commissioners of Colonial
Lands and Emigration for the Time being are hereby authorized and required, sub-
ject to such Rules as shall be prescribed for their Guidance in that respect by the
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to grant, under their Hands and Seal
of Office, Certificates to any such Purchaser or Purchasers of the Amount of any
such Payments, which Certificates shall, on Production thereof to the Governor for
the Time being of any such Colony, be received by him as equivalent to the Amount
of Money for which the same shall respectively be given, so far and only so far as
the same may be tendered to such Governor in Payment for the Price of any Waste
Lands of the Crown to be there purchased, either at public Auction or by private
Contract, in the Manner and subject to the Regulations by this present Act pre-
scribed in respect of such Purchasers.

XVII. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be Pasture and
construed to extend to prevent the Governor of any of the said Colonies from grant- Timber Li-
ing to any Person or Persons'a Licence for the Occupation, for any Time not ex- censes.
ceeding Twelve Calendar Months from the Date thereof, of any Waste Lands of the
Crown in any such Colony, or a Licence for felling, removing, and selling the
Timber growing on any such Lands; and that no such Lands shall be sold, until
after the Expiration of the Licence for the Occupation of the same.

XVIII. And be it enacted, That all Charges which shall be incurred in any Expenses of
of the Australian Colonies for the Expence of the Survey and Management of the Survey, Ma-
Waste Lands of the Crown therein, or for effecting such Sales by Auction or by pri- nagement,
vate Contract, or otherwise in carrying into effect the Provisions of this present Act the primary
within any such Colony, shall in the first instance be chargeable upon and de- Charge upon
frayed from the Proceeds of Sales of Waste Lands, unless Provision shall other- Land Reve-
wise be made for defraying such Charges by any Law or Ordinance to be enacted nues.
by the local Legislature of any such Colony.

XIX. And be it enacted, That, subject to the Charge above mentioned, the Gross Proceeds
gross Proceeds of the Sales of the Waste Lands of the Crown in each of the said of Sales of Land
Colonies shall be appropriated and applied to the public Service of the said Colonies to be applied to
respectively, in such Manner as Her Majesty, or the Commissioners of Her Majes- vice of the Co-
ty's Treasury, or any Three of them, shall from Time to Time direct: Provided lony, and One
always, that One equal Half Part at least of such gross Proceeds shall be and the Half to be ap-
same is hereby appropriated towards defraying the Expence of the Removal from propriated to
the United Kingdom to the Colony wherein such Revenue accrued of Emigrants not Emigration.
possessing the Means of defraying the Expence of their own Emigration thither,
which Money shall be expended by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury,
or by such Person or Persons as shall be authorized by them to expend the same,
but subject to such Regulations regarding the Selection of Emigrants, the Means
to be provided for their Conveyance, and their Superintendence during the Voyage
to the Colony to which they are destined, and for their Reception and Settlement
in that Colony, as shall from Time to Time be prescribed by Her Majesty in Her
Privy Council, or through One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,
to the Governor of such respective Colonies, and to the Commissioners for the Time
being of Colonial Lands and Emigration.