be appointed) and be not less than one calendar
month after the publication of the notice.
33—The sale of Crown Land shall be conducted
in all respects similarly to the sale of Rural Land,
save that Town land shall be put up to sale in
sections previously marked out, and the Superin-
tendent shall, by every notice of sale, limit the
number of selections to be made at such sale, and
shall in like manner prescribe some particular
town site or town sites in which the selections or
any number thereof are to be made; and the bid-
dings shall be of a certain sum per section.
34—The upset price or prices of Town Land
shall be such sum per section as shall, for each
particular sale and town site, be appointed by
the Superintendent, and shall be specimen in the
notice of sale, and a scale of upset prices may be
appointed according to the order of selection.
35—It shall be a condition of every sale that
one-tenth of the purchase money be immediately
paid in cash to the Officer conducting the sale, and
that the remainder be paid to the proper Officer
within one calendar month. If default be made
in either payment, the sale shall be void. If de-
fault be made in the latter payment, the instal-
ment of one-tenth shall be forfeited.
36—The Officer conducting the sale, whether of
Rural or Town Land, shall certify to the Super-
intendent, and also to the Commissioner of
Crown Lards, the distinguishing numbers or
marks of the sections sold, and it shall be the
duty of the said Commissioner from time to time
to cause the sections sold to be distinctly marked
as sold, or to be otherwise clearly distinguished
in the proper map or plan.

VI.—MILITARY SETTLERS.

37—Military and Naval Officers will be allowed
the privileges accorded to them in the purchase of
Crown Lands by any Regulations in force within
the Province previously to the issue of these Re-
gulations. But the remission money given to
them in the terms of such Regulations will be
subject to the rules hereinbefore prescribed rela-
tive to Government Scrip.
38—Government Scrip, available only within
the Province, may be issued at par to any such
officer for the amount of his remission money on
his signing and depositing with the Commissioner
of Crown Lands a memorandum declaring that,
by acceptance of such Scrip, he holds himself to
have come under an honorable obligation, and
does accordingly engage, to reside within the
Province for the space of two years from the issue
of such Scrip.
39—Non-commissioned officers and privates in
Her Majesty's Army or in the Royal Militia, who
being on service in the Province shall obtain their
discharge there (such privates being discharged
with good conduct certificates) shall, after a resi-
dence within the Province of one year after dis-
charge, be entitled to the issue of Government
Scrip available only within the Province to the
amount following:—

Non-commissioned Officers ............ £ 80
Privates ..................................... 40

VII.—MINERAL LAND.

40—It shall be competent to the Superinten-
dent, with the approval of the Provincial Council,
to reserve, for the purpose of letting the same,
any tract or section known or supposed to have
especial value as containing minerals.
41—Leases of Mineral Land shall be made to
such persons for such terms of years, under and
subject to such rents, royalties, reservations, and
covenants, and generally in such manner as, hav-

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having been proposed by the Superintendent to, and
approved of by, the Provincial Council, shall be
finally approved of by the Governor, and not
otherwise. This provision is without prejudice
to the fulfilment of any existing engagement en-
tered into by the Crown.

VIII.—FEES ON CROWN GRANTS.

42—By Ordinance No. 2 of Session VII., the
sum of twenty shillings is payable before the de-
livery of every Crown Grant by the person enti-
tled to receive the same. No other fee is payable
on the issue of Crown Grants.

IX.—COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATION.

43—These Regulations shall come into force at
the expiration of one calendar month from the
issue thereof.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

New Zealand Company's
Land Claims Commission,
Wellington, 4th October, 1855.

I, FRANCIS DILLON BELL, a Commis-
sioner duly appointed by virtue of the
Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legisla-
tive Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to
hear and determine claims to land by persons
claiming title, from, through, or under the
New Zealand Company, report that the claims
of the undermentioned persons having been
duly referred to me, I do hereby decide the
said persons to be respectively entitled to the
Crown Grants set opposite their names.

F. D. BELL,
Commissioner.