for the office of Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Auckland, and at every future Elec-
tion for that office, every elector entitled to
vote at any such Election shall be allowed to
poll at any of the polling places already or
to be hereafter appointed as a polling place
for the Election of Superintendent within the
said Province.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, in the Islands
aforesaid, this ninth day of
February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five.

R. H. WANYARD,
Officer administering the Government.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION,

By His Excellency Colonel ROBERT
HENRY WYNYARD, Companion
of the most Honourable Order
of the Bath, Officer Admin-
istering the Government and
Commander-in-Chief in and
over the Islands of New Zea-
land, and its dependencies,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1854," it is pro-
vided that if the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of any province shall rocommend to
the Governor any Regulations for the sale,
letting, disposal, and occupation of the
Waste Lands of the Crown within such Pro-
vince, it shall be lawful for such Governor,
if he shall think fit, with the advice of his
Executive Council, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Government Gazette to issue
and put in-force such Regulations within such
Province on a day to be named in the Gazette
in which the same shall be published, not
being less than one calendar month from the
publication thereof. And whereas the Su-
perintendent and the Provincial Council of
the Province of Auckland have recom-
mended to me the following Regulations
for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation
of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the
said Province, now therefore I, the Officer
administering the Government, pursuant to
the authority vested in me in that behalf by
the said recited act, do hereby, with the
advice of the Executive Council, proclaim
and issue the following Regulations, and I do
hereby declare that the same shall come in
force on the 15 day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-five.

Given under my hand and issued
under the public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Auckland, in the Colony afore-
16
said this 8th day of February
in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-
five.

R. H. WYNYARD,

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

I.
General Regulations.

1. All Regulations now in force in the Pro-
   vince of Auckland for the sale, letting, disposal,
   and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown
   (except such Regulations as are hereinafter cons
   firmed) are hereby repealed.

2. All such Waste Lands shall, from and
   after the day on which these Regulations shall
   come into force, be sold, let, disposed of, and oc-
   cupied according to these Regulations, and not
   otherwise.

3. For the purpose of settlement the Waste
   Lands of the Crown shall from time to time be
   divided by the Waste Land Board hereinafter
   Constituted, into five classes as follows, viz.-

4. Town Land—being the sites reserved, or
   to be hereafter reserved, for Towns and
   Villages.

5. Suburban Land—being the land in the
   immediate vicinity of Town and Village
   sites.

6. Rural Land—being land deriving especial
   value from its proximity to Town and
   Village sites.

7. Special Occupation Land—being the land
   to be set apart as such under the Regu-
   lations hereinafter contained.

8. General Country Land—being the Waste
   Land of the Crown not comprised in
   one of the above four classes.

9. Such division into classes shall, before the
   same come into force, be approved of by the Su-
   perintendent and his Executive Council, and
   when so from time to approved of, the land
   therein respectively comprised shall immediately
   be notified and declared by the Waste Land Board
   in the Provincial Government Gazette as open to
   settlement, according to the terms of these Regu-
   lations, on and after a day to be named in such
   notice.

10. It shall be lawful for the said Waste Land.
    Board, with the consent of the Superintendent
    and his Executive Council, at any time, and from
    time to time, to declare by notice in the Provin-
    cial Government Gazette, that any land (except
    Special Occupation Land) which may have been
    placed in any such class shall thenceforth cease to
    belong to such class, and that the same shall,
    from a day to be named in such notice, belong to
    any other of the said classes.

11. Provided always that nothing in these Re-
    gulations contained shall affect any contract, or
    prevent the fulfilment of any promise or engage-
    ment lawfully made by or on behalf of Her Ma-
    jesty before these Regulations shall come into
    force.

12. Provided also, whenever the title to any
    Native land shall have been extinguished, it shall
    be lawful for the Governor, if he shall think fit,
    immediately on the completion thereof, to permit
    the native sellers to purchase at the rate of ten
    shillings an acre any portion of such land, and the
    same may be conveyed by Crown Grant accord-
    ingly.