--PRE-EMPTION CERTIFICATES.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 14th May, 1844.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
notified that parties failing to apply at
the Colonial Treasury for their Pre-emption
Certificates, within one month from the date of
the Letter from this Office apprising them of His
Excellency's consent to the issue of the same,
will forfeit the advantages conceded to them
thereby.

Persons who have already received this indul-
gence, are hereby required to claim their cer-
tificates within one month from the date hereof,

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 8th May, 1844.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified for general information, that
as one Memorial has been held to cover all
Claims for Land on account of one party or part-
nership, one final report will be held to cover all.

The original or principal claimant shall pay
Five Pounds for the final report on the issue of
a Crown Grant for his Claims, and Ten Shillings
for every additional hundred acres above the
first five hundred, according to the Ordinance.
Secondary or derivative claimants will pay Ten
Shillings per hundred acres, on the issue of
Crown Grants.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 9th May, 1844.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that, under the existing cir-
cumstances of the Colony—it is impossible for
the Government to survey the boundaries of all
lands awarded by the Commissioners of Land
Claims to the respective claimants without caus-
ing such extreme delay as would be ruinous to
the parties interested, and most detrimental to
the welfare of the Colony.

Deeds of Grant—according to the following
form—will be filled up by such descriptions of
the lands and their boundaries as are furnished
by the Commissioners in their Reports—and
the Governor urges strenuously on the Claimants
the absolute necessity of their having a survey
made of the lands so granted to them—in con-
formity with the descriptions in such Grants
as soon as possible—in order to avoid future
doubts and litigation.

By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

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Victoria by the Grace of God, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen
Defender of the Faith, and so forth:

To all to whom these Presents shall come,
greeting:

Whereas, one of Our Commissioners appointed
to hear, examine, and report upon Claims to
Land obtained by Purchase from the Aboriginal
Inhabitants of the Colony of New Zealand, has
reported that (A. B.) is entitled to receive a
Grant of (one thousand acres) of Land, par-
ticularly mentioned and described in Claim No.
(490, z.)

Now Know Ye, That We, of Our Special
Grace, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, do
hereby Grant unto the said (A. B.) his Heirs
and Assigns, all that Allotment, or Parcel of
Land, in our said Territory, said to contain (one
thousand) acres, more or less, situated (on the
Wairoa River,) and of which the Boundaries are
(reported to be as follows:—namely—From the
north side of the mouth of a creek called Otaru—
along the north bank of that creek to its head.
Thence due north by compass to the summit of a
ridge called Ota—thence along the said ridge east-
ward to a peaked hill called Tara—and thence in
a straight line to the nearest bank of the river
Wairoa,) with all the Rights and Appurtenances
whatsoever thereto belonging; To Hold unto
the said (A. B.) his Heirs and Assigns for ever.

In Testimony Whereof, We have caused this
Our Grant to be sealed with the Seal of our said
Territory.

Witness, Our Trusty and Well-beloved
(Robert Fitzroy,) Esquire, Go-
vernor and Commander-in-Chief
of Our said Territory and its
Dependencies, at Government
House, Auckland, in New Zealand,
aforesaid, this day of
in the
year of Our Reign;
and in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred
and

ROBERT FITZROY.

By Command of His Excellency.
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 6th June, 1844.

WITH reference to the exchange of distant
land for Crown land near Auckland,
the Governor directs it to be notified that all
Deeds, or documents of any description, shewing
title to such distant land, will be required by the
Government previous to the issue of a Crown
Grant for other land in exchange.

By Command
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.