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SCHEDULE A.
District
Boundaries
Estimated extent
Deposit £
Signature of applicant

SCHEDULE B.
Form of Pasture Occupation License.

Whereas A. B., of --------, has made
application for a Pasture Occupation License
in the district of --------, and has
lodged with me the required description and
deposit, and whereas the boundaries of the run
thus applied for are set forth in a plan attached
to this license and the acreage contents satis-
factorily certified.

Now, therefore, I, --------, do hereby
license the said -------- to depasture
stock upon the said land for the term of 14
years from the date hereof, subject neverthe-
less to be sooner determined pursuant to the
Regulations under which this license is issued
and to be cancelled as is in such Regulations
provided.

Dated -------- (Signed) C. D.,
Commissioner.

CHAS. CLIFFORD,
Speaker.
L. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
14th June, 1855.

THE attention of the various Postmasters
in the Colony is directed to the following
Letter from the Assistant Secretary in the Ge-
neral Post Office, London, containing Regula-
tions for the Colonial Book Post, and which His
Excellency the Officer administering the Go-
vernment has directed should be published for
general information.

The various Postmasters are directed to com-
ply with these Regulations, and to adopt cor-
responding arrangements with respect to
packets sent from New Zealand to the United
Kingdom.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

General Post Office,
20th February, 1855.

SIR, —I am directed by the Postmaster-Ge-
neral to inform you that the Lords Commis-
sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by their
Warrant, dated the 23rd ultimo, have made
several alterations in the Regulations of the
Colonial Book Post, with a view of removing
the causes of error and vexation arising from
the circumstance, that the privileges of the
Colonial Book Post have hitherto been different
from those of the Inland Book Post, and from
the arrangement under which a book packet,
which, from inadvertence, may have been in-
sufficiently prepaid, becomes chargeable wit
the full letter rate.

As the alterations are in all respects benefi-
cial to the public, whether in the Mother
Country or the Colonies, and calculated to in-
crease both the British and Colonial Postal
Revenue, and as a great delay would have been
caused by a previous application for the con-
sent of each separate Colony concerned.; the
Postmaster-General felt sure that in recom-
mending the measure to the Lords of the Trea-
sury, he might assume the acquiescence of all
the Colonial Governments.

Under these circumstances, the day which
has been fixed for the Warrant to come into
operation is the first of next month (March),
and subjoined is a statement of the chief pro-
visions of the Warrant.

1. A Book Packet may contain any number
   of separate books, almanacs, maps, or prints,
   and any quantity of paper, vellum, or parch-
   ment (to the exclusion of letters, whether
   sealed or open); and the books, maps, paper,
   &c., may be either printed, written, or plain,
   or any mixture of the three.

2. The name and address of the sender, or
   anything else not in the nature of a letter,
   may also be written or printed upon the enve-
   lope or cover of the packet, in addition to the
   name and address of the person to whom it
   may be forwarded.

3. All legitimate binding, mounting, or
   covering of the same, or of any portion thereof,
   will be allowed, whether such binding, &c., be
   loose or attached; as also rollers in the case
   of prints; markers (whether of paper or other-
   wise) in the case of books; and, in short,
   whatever is necessary for the safe transmission
   of literary or artistic matter.

4. The rates of postage on Book packets
   will remain as heretofore, viz. :-

s. d.
For each packet not exceed-
ing ½ lb. ...................... 0 6
Ditto above ½ lb. and not ex-
ceeding 1 lb. ...................... 1 0
Ditto above 1 ½ lb. and not ex-
ceeding 2 lbs. ...................... 2 0
and so on.

5. The following Regulations, however,
   must be observed.

Every packet must be either without a cover,
or with a cover, open at the ends, or sides.
It must not contain any letter, open or
sealed, nor any sealed enclosure whatever.
No packet must exceed two feet in length,
breadth, or width.

The postage of book packets must be paid
in advance, and, if within the United King-
dom, by means of stamps.

Should a book packet be posted unpaid, or
with a prepayment of less than sixpence, or
be enclosed in a cover, not open at the ends or
sides, or should it exceed the dimensions
specified, such packets will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office, and treated as at present.

But when a book packet shall have been
posted, insufficiently prepaid, and it shall ap-
pear that the single rate of sixpence at least