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for the use and benefit of the aboriginal
inhabitants of such Province, and for any
purposes of public safety; and may alienate
portions thereof, either in perpetuity or for
any term, in exchange for other lands
(whether the same belong to private persons
or are holden by the Crown or private persons
in trust for public purposes), or in satisfac-
tion of any equitable claim to lands in the
said Province, belonging to or claimed by the
Crown, or of any equitable claim against the
Crown, in respect of lands situate therein.

5. The Superintendent of the said Pro-
   vince may, from time to time, and as to him
   it shall seem meet, reserve portions of the
   said lands for public roads or other internal
   communications, whether by land or water,
   or for the sites of future towns or villages,
   or for the sites of public buildings, or as and
   for the sites of common schools, or for the
   purpose of endowments for such schools, in
   which shall be taught reading and writing in
   English, arithmetic, and English grammar;
   such reserves for said schools to be one-
   twentieth of the whole of such lands: or as
   endowments for charitable purposes, or as
   places for the interment of the dead, or for
   the recreation and amusement of the inhabi-
   tants of any town or village, or as the sites
   of public quays or landing-places on the sea
   coast, or shores of navigable streams, or for
   any other purpose of convenience, health, or
   enjoyment.

6. Such Superintendent shall and may,
   from time to time, and whensoever, and as
   often as to him it shall seem meet, divide
   the said Waste Lands into Town Lands,
   Suburban Lands, and Country Lands, and
   vary, alter, or annul such division, and make
   a new division thereof.

7. Subject to the provision herein con-
   tained, Town Lands, and Suburban Lands,
   and such of the Country Lands, as the
   Superintendent shall in that behalf appoint
   shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of
   except by way of public auction.

8. Such public sales shall be holden and
   conducted by such person, and at such times,
   and in such places within the said Province
   as the Superintendent shall, in that behalf,
   from time to time, by notification in the
   "Government Gazette" for the Province of
   Auckland, nominate and appoint, which
   person shall be styled the Waste Lands Com-
   missioner for the Province of Auckland, who
   shall transact all the business of the Waste
   Lands Office.

9. The upset prices of the Lands to be
   sold at such public sales shall be fixed from
   time to time by the Superintendent.

10. The Superintendent shall from time
    to time, notify through such Gazette what
    lands are to be sold at such public sales, and
    the upset prices thereof respectively, and such

lands shall not be so offered to public sale
until one calendar month shall have elapsed
from and after first publication of such noti-
fication as aforesaid. The purchase money of
every allotment of land sold at such public
sales shall be paid by the purchaser thereof
or his agent unto such person as the Gover-
or shall appoint to receive the same; one
moiety thereof to be paid at the time of sale,
and the other moiety to be paid within one
calendar month from and after such time.

In the event of the second moiety of such
purchase money not being paid unto the per-
son so appointed to receive the same within
the said calendar month, such sale shall be
void, and the first moiety shall thereupon be
forfeited to the Crown.

11. In the case of lands thus forfeited by
    non-completion of the contract for their pur-
    chase, it shall be lawful for any person,
    within the next twelve calendar months after
    the auction at which the bidding for such
    lands was made, to purchase such lands for
    the highest amount that was then bid for
    them.

12. It shall also be lawful for any person,
    within the next twelve calendar months after
    any auction, to become, without any further
    auction, the purchaser of any land so put up
    for sale as aforesaid, and not then sold, by
    offering and paying for the same the upset
    price at which the same may have been put
    up for sale.

13. Notwithstanding anything herein con-
    tained, it shall be competent for the Super-
    intendent, instead of permitting any land to
    be purchased as authorised by the above
    clauses 11 and 12, to cause any lands, which
    shall not have been already applied for under
    the said clauses, to be put up again to auction,
    giving such notice thereof as is hereinbefore
    provided in respect of land to be offered at
    auction.

Country Lands.

14. Subject to the provisions hereinafter
    in that behalf contained, all Country Lands
    shall be sold, by the said Commissioner, at
    the fixed price of ten shillings an acre, ex-
    cepting such parts thereof as shall be re-
    served for public purposes or sale by auction,
    as and in manner aforesaid, or as shall contain
    less than forty acres.

15. The Superintendent shall and may
    from time to time notify through the Govern-
    ment Gazette for the Province of Auckland,
    what blocks of Country Lands are to be
    sold at such fixed price, and the days on
    and after which the same shall be respectively
    open to sale, provided that none of the said
    blocks, excepting such as have been hereto-
    fore declared open for sale or settlement
    shall be so offered to sale until one calendar