state his claim to acquire land under these Regu-
lations.
35. The Waste Land Board shall appoint a day
for investigating such claim, when, if it shall ap-
pear to them that such person left India with a
bona fide intention of becoming a settler in the
Province of Auckland, they shall grant him a
Money Certificate, amounting in value to two-
thirds of the sum which he shall prove to the
satisfaction of the Waste Land Board that he has
actually expended in the payment of passage
money for himself, his family, and servants to
New Zealand, not exceeding in the whole the
price of five hundred acres of Special Occupation
Land.
36. Such Money Certificate shall be received
for the amount therein expressed, in payment of
any Special Occupation Land which he may se-
lect from such as may have been declared as here-
inbefore provided to be open for sale in New
Zealand.
VI.
Naval and Military Settlers.
37. Every Naval and Military Officer whether
on full or half pay, and every non-commissioned
Officer and private marine and seaman, whether
belonging to Her Majesty's service or to the ser-
vice of the East India Company, who being on
service in New Zealand, shall retire or obtain his
discharge there, shall be entitled to receive from
the Waste Land Board (in lieu of an allowance
in respect of money expended in passages, as
hereinbefore provided in respect of settlers emi-
grating from the United Kingdom) a Money Cer-
tificate enabling him to acquire land free of cost,
after the following rate-
Commissioned officers ... 400 acres.
Non-commissioned officers above the
rank of Corporal or equivalent to
that rank in the sea sevice
Non-commissioned officers being
corporals or under that rank or
equivalent to or under that rank
in the sea service
Private soldiers, marines, and sea-
men
80 acres.
60 acres.
40 acres.
38. Such Money Certificate shall be received
for the amount therein expressed, in payment of
any Special Occupation Land, which the person
entitled to such Certificate may select from such
as may have been declared as hereinbefore pro-
vided to be open for sale in New Zealand.
VII.
General Country Land.
39. Any person desirous of purchasing any Ge-
neral Country Land which shall have been de-
clared open for settlement as aforesaid, shall send
in a written application to the Waste Land
Board, under a sealed cover, with the words
"Application for Land" legibly written thereon,
stating the number of acres such person is desir-
ous purchasing, and describing the same as ac-
curately as may be, so that the same may be iden-
tified and marked on a plan of the district to be
fixed by the said Board.
40. Every applicant shall, at ten o'clock in the
morning of the next business day after making
such application, pay to the said Board the price
of the land so selected by him, which price shall
be the rate of ten shillings an acre.
41. All such applications shall be opened at
ten o'clock in the morning of the next business
day after the same shall have been sent in, in the
presence of the persons applying, if they shall at-
tend, and if it shall be found that there are two
or more applications for the same piece of land,
or any part thereof, sent in on the same day, the
piece of land in dispute shall be put up for sale
by auction by one of the Commissioners of the
Waste Land Board, at the upset price of ten
shillings an acre, at ten o'clock in the morning of
the fourth day (and if such day be Sunday, Christ-
mas day, or Good Friday, then on the following
day), after the application for the same shall have
been opened as aforesaid, and posted as hereinaf-
ter provided by section 72. At such auction the
persons who applied for the land shall alone be
permitted to bid.
42. Every such selection shall comprise not less
than forty acres of land, and shall, so far as the
features of the country will permit, be of a rec-
tangular form, and when fronting on a river, road,
lake, or coast, be of a depth not less than three
times the length of the frontage. Provided al-
ways that, under special circumstances, the said
Waste Land Board may permit proprietors to
complete their properties by the purchase of ad-
joining lands in blocks of irregular shape and of
small extent, so that the same shall not unduly
interfere with the advantageous dividing of the
adjoining land into convenient allotments.
43. The Waste Land Board, at the time of any
application being granted, or as soon as conveni-
ently may be thereafter, shall inform the appli-
cant that the land so selected will be surveyed at
the expense of the Government, or that the ap-
plicant must have the same surveyed at his own
expense, by a Surveyor to be approved of by the
Board, in which latter case such applicant shall
be entitled to receive an allowance of five acres
for every one hundred acres so surveyed, as com-
pensation for the cost thereof.
44. Every survey to be performed by the ap-
plicant at his own expense, must be completed
and delivered at the Waste Land Office within
twelve months after the Waste Land Board shall
have informed such applicant that the land is to be
so surveyed, and in default thereof, it shall be law-
ful for the said Waste Land Board either to have
the land surveyed at the applicant's expense
(which shall be repaid by him to the Board be-
fore the Crown Grant shall be issued), or it shall
be lawful for the said Board to dispose of the said
land to any other person, and in such latter case,
the purchase money paid by the first applicant
shall be returned to him on demand, after deduct-
ing one-tenth part thereof as a forfeiture for the
default.
45. Where General Country Land shall be
purchased in a district in which the lines of road
shall not have been determined on and laid out, a
right of laying out a road over the said land shall
be reserved in the grant, and an allowance made
to the purchaser after the following scale,-
Purchasers of 500 acres or less shall receive an
allowance of five acres per cent.
Purchasers of upwards of 500 acres and not
more than 1000 acres, four acres per cent.
Purchasers of more than 1000 acres, three
acres per cent.
46. It shall at any time be competent for the
Waste Land Board to offer for sale, by auction,
or to dispose by lease as hereinafter provided:
any general country land which shall be deemed
to possess especial value as containing Minerals.
VIII.
Mineral Land Leases.
47. Any person applying for a lease of land
whether rural land, special occupation land set
apart for sale in New Zealand, or general country
land shall be entitled to the same upon the fol-
lowing terms and conditions.

1. That the lease shall comprise so much land
   as shall in the opinion of the Waste Land Board
   be necessary for the efficient working of the