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Land with the Government-the following
Regulations are made public, and will be strictly
-observed.

REGULATIONS
RESPECTING THE EXCHANGE OF LAND.

1. No further exchange of Land will be made
   by the Government previous to the last week of
   next June.

2. There will be no restriction as to the quan-
   tity of Land, whether Town, Suburban, or
   Country, given by the Government in exchange
   for an equivalent value-or as much more as
   may be offered-in money, or in other Land not
   yet Granted by the Crown, but the claim to
   which has been recommended to the Governor
   for a Grant.

3. Before a Crown Grant will be issued, the
   Land tendered in exchange for Crown Land must
   be surveyed by Government; and, if found less
   in quantity than the amount stated, the party
   tendering will be required to make good the de-
   ficiency, in money or forego his intended ex-
   -change.

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 claim 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 Land.

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 va-
   lidity 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.
   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.

I THE GOVERNOR, do hereby advertise
and proclaim that, at Eleven o'clock,
on Friday, the 28th day of June, 1844, the
Colonial Treasurer will put up to Auction
at the Treasury, the under-mentioned Lands,
on the terms and conditions and under the
provisions of an Act of Parliament, passed
in the fifth and sixth years of the reign
of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, chap. 36, en-
titled "An Act for regulating the Sale of Waste
Lands belonging to the Crown in the Australian
Colonies."

Deposit on the purchase-money. Ten pounds
per centum.

Town Land, 40 acres-upset price, £100 per
acre.

Suburban Land, 1,000 acres-upset price,
£2 per acre.

Country Land, 28,000 acres-upset price, £1
per acre.

The Country Lands are at Wao and Papa-
kura; and the Town and Suburban Lands on
the West side of Auckland.

Given under my Hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
(L. S.) Auckland, this seventh day of
June, in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and
forty-four.

ROBERT FITZROY,
Governor.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

On application at the Surveyor-General's
Office, further information will be given to in-
tending purchasers.