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good the deficiency, in money, -or forego his
intended exchange.

4. Applications to exchange Land will be re-
   ceived, and registered till the fifteenth day of
   June next.

5. Each such application must specify the
   quantity of Land offered for exchange; the
   locality of such Land; the number and letter
   (if any), of the Land Claim; and the Commis-
   sioner or Commissioners by whom it was inves-
   tigated.

6. No grant will be made out in favor of any
   person offering to exchange Land at the end of
   June next, whose application shall not have
   been received by the Government before the
   sixteenth day of that month.

7. A considerable portion of Surveyed Town,
   Suburban, and Country Land, will be put up to
   Auction during the last week of June next, of
   which due notice will be given; but a sufficient
   quantity will be reserved for the Sales in the
   months of September, and December next; in
   order that other claimants whose claims may be
   then unsettled, may have fair opportunities of
   open competition in exchange.

8. Books will be opened at the Treasury for
   Land Claimants in order that they may have
   credit, in land only, to the amount of the quan-
   tities contained in their respective approved
   claims, which they may state their readiness to
   dispose of at the rate of one pound sterling per
   acre, in exchange for an equivalent value of
   Government laud.

9. Transferable notes will be given by the
   Treasury; on which it will be distinctly speci-
   fied that the acceptance of such notes, by the
   Government, at the above-mentioned sales, in
   exchange for land only, will depend on the
   validity of the claim they are intended to repre-
   sent; and on their holder making good, in
   money, any deficiency in the quantity of land
   stated.

(L. S.)
Given under my Hand, and under
the Seal of the Colony, at Go-
vernment House, Auckland, this
twenty-sixth day of March, in
the Year of Our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and forty-four

ROBERT FITZROY,
Governor.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency ROBERT FITZROY,
Esquire, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal
Navy, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over the Colony of New Zealand,
and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

FROM this day—until otherwise ordered—
I will consent on behalf of Her Majesty
the Queen—to waive the right of Pre-emption
over certain limited portions of land in New
Zealand, on the following conditions.

Application is to be made in writing to
the Governor, through the Colonial Secretary,
to waive the Crown's right of Pre-emption
over a certain number of acres of land at, or
immediately adjoining a place distinctly speci-
fied: such land being described as accurately
as may be practicable.

2. The Governor will give, or refuse his con-
   sent to waive the Crown's right of pre-emption
   to a certain person, or his assignee, as His Ex-
   cellency may judge best for the public welfare;
   rather than for the private interest of the appli-
   cant. He will fully consider the nature of the
   locality—the state of the neighboring and
   resident natives; their abundance or deficiency
   of land; their disposition towards Europeans,
   and towards Her Majesty's Government;—
   and he will consult with the Protector of Abo-
   rigines before consenting, in any case, to waive
   the right of pre-emption.

3. No Crown title will be given for any Pah,
   or native burying ground, or land about either;
   however desirous the owners may now be to
   part with them: and, as a general rule, the
   right of pre-emption will not be waived over
   any land required by the aborigines for their
   present use; although they themselves may
   now be desirous that it should be alienated.

4. The Crown's right of pre-emption will
   not be waived over any of that land near Auck-
   land which lies between the Tamaki road and
   the sea to the northward.

5. Of all land purchased from the aborigines
   in consequence of the Crown's right of pre-
   emption being waived,—one-tenth part, of fair
   average value, as to position and quality, is to
   be conveyed, by the purchaser, to Her Majesty,
   her heirs and successors, for public purposes,
   especially the future benefit of the aborigines.

6. All transactions with the sellers;—all risks
   attendant on misunderstandings: on sales made
   improperly; or on incomplete purchases; must
   be undertaken by the buyers until their respec-
   tive purchases have been allowed, and confirmed
   by grants from the Crown.

7. As the Crown has no right of Pre-Emp-
   tion over Land already sold to any person not
   an Aboriginal Native of New Zealand:—and
   whose claim is or may be acknowledged by a
   Commissioner of Land Claims;—no grant will
   be issued to any other than the original claim-
   ant or his representative, whose claims have
   been, or may be investigated by a Commis-
   sioner, and recommended by him to the Go-
   vernor for a grant from the Crown.

8. As a contribution to the Land Fund, and
   for the general purposes of Government—Fees
   will be demanded in ready money, at the rate
   of four shillings per acre for nine-tenths of the
   aggregate quantity of Land over which it may
   be requested that the Crown's right of Pre-emp-
   tion may be waived.

These fees will be payable into the Treasury
on receiving the Governor's consent to waive
the right of Pre-emption.

And on the issue of a Crown Grant, after an