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in the copies thereof deposited with him as afore-
said, so as to maintain the exactitude of the said
copies.
17-In every district declared open for pur-
chase under these regulations, one-twentieth part
of the total area of the district, and also a belt of
land surrounding each town site, equal in area to
such town site, shall be reserved as an endowment
for public schools for general education.
18-All unalienated lands within the town site
of New Plymouth, together with the unalienated
portions of Victoria Park, Somes' Park, the Bo-
tanic Garden, and the Town Belt, but exclusive
of roads, streets, and squares, will also be re-
served as an endowment for public schools for ge-
neral education, and will be vested in the Super-
intendent under the provisions of "The Public,
Reserves Act, 1854." Provided that before the
issue of a Crown Grant thereof under the said
Act it shall be lawful for the Governor to make
any reserves deemed necessary for military pur-
poses out of the same lands.
19-The roads and reserves for roads through-
out the Settlement (including streets and squares
in the Town of New Plymouth) will be vested in
the Superintendent, under the provisions of the
aforesaid Act, as public thoroughfares.

III.-SELECTIONS FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.
20-Ministers or Trustees of Religious Bodies
shall be at liberty to apply to the Superintendent
for permission to purchase rural land, not exceed-
ing in any one district ten acres for Burial
Grounds, and as sites for Churches, Chapels, or
Schools, and also not exceeding one acre in every
town site, as sites for Churches, Chapels, Schools,
or other Buildings devoted to religious or educa-
tional purposes; and any such application being
recommended by the Superintendent to, and ap-
proved of by, the Provincial Council, the appli-
cants or other persons on behalf of the Religious
body shall be admitted to purchase the land ap-
plied for at such rate as shall be fixed by the Su-
perintendent and Provincial Council, not being
less than ten shillings per acre for rural land, and
twenty pounds per acre for town land, before the
district is opened for public selection.

IV. SCRIP.
21-Government Scrip shall be taken in pay-
ment for town land at the nominal value of such
Scrip in pounds sterling.
22-In the purchase of Rural Land one pound
in Government Scrip shall represent the selling
price of one acre, where such selling price does
not exceed twenty shillings, and in other cases
shall represent its nominal value of one pound.

V.-SALES.
23-The Superintendent, with the approval of
the Provincial Council, shall notify in the Go-
vernment Gazette of the Province the day on
which Rural Land and Town Land respectively
shall be first open for purchase-such day being
never less than one calendar month after the pub-
lication of the notice--and being always, as re-
spects Rural Land, one of the sale days for Rural
Land hereinafter appointed, and as respects
Town Land the fifteenth day of the month, un-
less the same fall on a Sunday or Good Friday,
in which case the following day may be appoint-
ed. And to every such notice respecting Rural
Land, which shall be divided into sections, there
shall be appended a tabular statement shewing
the distinguishing number or mark of each sec-
tion and its area.
24-No further sale of lands in any district
already declared open for purchase shall take
place until the same shall have been surveyed and
declared open for purchase conformably with
these regulations.
25-Rural Land and Town Land shall be sold
by public auction in manner hereinafter pre-
scribed, and not otherwise.
26-All sales shall take place at the Crown
Lands Office, in the Town of New Plymouth, and
shall commence at the hour of Eleven a.m., and
close not later than the hour of Three p.m. The
Superintendent may from time to time, by notice
in the said Gazette, appoint any other place or
hour of sale; but no such notice shall take effect
until the expiration of one calendar month from
its publication.
27-The sub-Treasurer of the General Govern-
ment or his deputy for the purpose approved of
by the Superintendent, or some other person ap-
pointed for the purpose by the Governor, shall
conduct the sales.
28-There shall be a periodical sale of Rural
Land on the first day of every month, unless the
same fall on a Sunday or on Good Friday, and in
that case on the following day.
29-The biddings at sales of Rural Lands shall
be of a certain sum per acre for a section to be
immediately afterwards chosen by the bidder in
any district duly declared as open for purchase-
(all such districts within the Province, or the un-
sold portions thereof, being at every sale open for
selection)-and the highest bidder for each su-
ccessive choice shall accordingly forthwith select a
section on the map or plan, and declare his choice
to the officer conducting the sale, and shall be-
come the purchaser of the same section at such
sum per acre as he shall have last bidden. The
said officer shall, after each selection, proceed to
invite another set of biddings, and shall so con-
tinue the sale on the same, and, if requisite, on
the following day or days, so long as there shall
be any bidder for a selection at the upset price
per acre.
30-Rural Land may, at the discretion of the
Superintendent, exercisable with consent of the
Provincial Council, be sold either in sections
marked out prior to the sale, or in sections where-
of the area and general position may be deter-
mined by the purchaser at the time of
sale; but in the latter case no section
shall exceed 240 acres or be less than 40 acres,
and the purchaser shall be subject to the
conditions prescribed by Article 13, respecting
the laying out of rural sections so as not to en-
gross frontage and other advantages, and shall
not be permitted to select so as to leave detached
parcels of land less than 40 acres in area or other-
wise not advantageously saleable as separate sec-
tions; and shall be subject also to such other
conditions, general or special, respecting the lay-
ing out of such sections as may from time to time
be prescribed by the Superintendent, with the
approval of the Provincial Council. A competent
person may be appointed by the Superintendent
to attend at any sale, with authority to see to the
execution of this article, and to forbid any selec-
tion attempted in contravention thereof. And, if
necessary, any sale may be adjourned till the fol-
lowing day, or suspended till the next periodical
sale day, for the purpose of accurately determin-
ing the boundaries of the selections already made
before proceeding to further sales.
31-The upset price for Rural Land shall be
ten shillings per acre.
32-Town Land shall be sold only on such
days as the Superintendent shall appoint by no-
tice published in the said Gazette. Provided that
the day so appointed be always the 15th day of
the month, unless the same fall on a Sunday or
Good Friday (in which case the following day may