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52. All the provisions hereinbefore con-
    tained, as to the person by whom the said
    Country Lands shall be sold as aforesaid, at
    ten shillings an acre, and the mode and manner
    of notifying that the same are open for sale,
    and of applying for permission to purchase por-
    tions thereof, and the form and shape of such
    portions, and the mode and manner of receiv-
    ing, dealing with, and finally disposing of the
    applications so made, and of paying the pur-
    chase money of the lands so purchased, shall
    extend and be applicable to all allotments of
    the said Country Lands to be sold on credit, as
    aforesaid, at fifteen shillings an acre (so far as
    the same can be applied thereto), as fully and
    effectually as if such provisions were here re-
    peated: Provided that, where two or more
    persons shall apply at the same time for per-
    mission to purchase the same allotment, the
    right to effect such purchase shall be decided
    by lot, and not by auction.

Occupation of Crown Lands.

53. The Rules and Regulations for the
    issue of Pasture and Timber Licenses, for the
    occupation of Waste Lands of the Crown out-
    side hundreds in the said Province, annexed to
    the Land Regulations for such Province which
    came into force on the fifteenth day of March,
    one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, and
    as referred to in the sixtieth section of those
    Regulations, shall remain in force, anything
    herein contained to the contrary notwith-
    standing.

54. No person will be allowed to purchase
    any portion of the land occupied by a pasture
    or timber license holder, wherein a homestead
    shall have been erected, or improvements made,
    until the offer of purchasing such land shall
    have been made to such license holder, at the
    price of twenty shillings an acre.

55. The license holder in such case will be
    allowed to exercise, within one month from
    the notification of such offer as last aforesaid,
    the right of purchasing, at such fixed price,
    his homestead or improved land, together with
    such land adjoining thereto as he may desire,
    not being in the whole less than forty or more
    than eighty acres, and the whole being in one
    allotment, of a rectangular form, as nearly as
    circumstances will permit, and having, if
    fronting a river, road, lake, or coast, a depth
    of not less than three times the length of its
    frontage.

Naval and Military Settlers.

56 Every person who has heretofore re-
ceived from the Waste Land Board, under the
provisions in that behalf contained in the
thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth sections of
the Land Regulations, for the said Province,
which came into force on the fifteenth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
five, a money certificate enabling him to
acquire land free of cost, may select, before
the first day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six, out of any blocks of
Special Occupation Land, heretofore declared
open for selection, and under and subject to all
the provisions in that behalf contained in such
Land Regulations, the number of acres men-
tioned in the said certificate; anything herein-
before contained to the contrary thereof, in
any wise notwithstanding.

T. H. BARTLEY,
Speaker.

Adopted by the Provincial Council
this twenty-third day of April,
One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six.

STEPHEN E. HUGHES,
Clerk of Auckland Provincial Council.

I, John Logan Campbell, Superin-
tendent of the Province of Auck-
land, do hereby recommend to the
Governor the above Regulations
for the Sale, Letting, Disposal,
and Occupation of the Waste
Lands of the Crown, that they
may be issued and put in force in
the said Province.

J. LOGAN CAMPBELL,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
May 9th, 1856.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the New Zealand Constitution Act, His
Excellency the Governor directs the publication of the following Act of the
General Assembly for public information.

By His Excellency's command,
HENRY SEWELL,
Colonial Secretary.