II. Surveys and Reserves.
2. No lands, other than those heretofore
surveyed by the New Zealand Company or
under the authority of the General Govern-
ment before these Regulations shall have
come in force, shall be offered for sale in any
district until the principal Surveyor of the
General Government within the Province, or
other officer duly authorized in that behalf,
shall have notified to the Superintendent
that the Native title has been extinguished
in such district, and shall have transmitted,
with such notification, an outline map,
signed by such Surveyor or other Officer,
and distinguished by some number or mark;
showing the boundaries of the district and
of the lands (if any) reserved within such
district for the use of the Natives, and ex-
hibiting, so far as practicable, the character
and natural features of the lands included
in such district, accompanied by such writ-
ten information relating thereto as cannot
be conveyed by a map.

3. So soon as such notification and map
   shall have been received, proper surveys
   shall, with all convenient speed, be made in
   such district; and the Superintendent with
   the advice and consent of his Executive
   Council, shall divide the same into Counties
   and Hundreds, and shall from time to time
   make reserves for the sites of towns and
   villages, or for lines of internal communica-
   tion, whether by roads, canals, railways or
   otherwise; or for the laying out of drains
   around or through districts which are of a
   swampy character, or for quays and landing-
   places, or for the general convenience of
   trade and navigation; or as the sites of
   Churches, Court Houses, Markets, Hos-
   pitals, Prisons, or other public edifices; or
   as Cemeteries; or as places necessary for the
   embellishment or health of towns, or the re-
   creation of the inhabitants thereof; or other-
   wise for any purpose of public utility, con-
   venience or enjoyment.

4. One thirty-second part of land, of
   average value in every district, shall also be
   set apart and reserved as an endowment for
   the purposes of education.

5. All such reserves shall be notified in
   the "Government Gazette" of the Pro-
   vince, and the lands so reserved (except
   such as shall be reserved as sites for towns
   or villages, or for purposes of education)
   and all roads, or reserves for roads, streets,
   and squares throughout the Province, shall
   be vested in the Superintendent under
   "The Public Reserves Act, 1854"; and all
   reserves for purposes of education shall be
   vested in an Education Board lawfully con-
   stituted.

6. The Governor will make such reserves
   for purposes of Military Defence, or for the

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Civil Service and use of the General Go-
vernment, as he shall deem expedient.

7. Reserves, lines of road, and sections
   shall be laid down on the proper maps of
   each district, each section in a district having
   a distinguishing number or mark. A sepa-
   rate plan shall be made of each town site.

8. Roads and streets shall not be less
   than one chain in width, except where local
   circumstances shall render an adherence to
   this rule impracticable.

9. In laying out sections the following
   rules shall be adhered to as nearly as possi-
   ble:—

10. Every section shall front on a road.

11. Road and water frontages, and na-
    tural advantages shall be equally
    distributed.

12. Road frontage shall not exceed two-
    thirds of the depth of a section
    except where a road intersects a
    section.

13. Natural boundaries shall be taken
    advantage of.

14. Except in the case of natural boun-
    daries the sections shall be rectili-
    near.

15. Sections of town, suburban, and
    mineral land, may be of such size as the
    Superintendent, acting with the advice of his
    Executive Council and the Commissioner of
    Crown Lands, shall from time determine.
    No section of rural land shall be less
    than ten, nor more than one hundred and
    fifty acres; nor of pasture land less than
    eighty, nor more than four hundred acres.
    Within the above limits any section may at
    any time previous to sale be altered or sub-
    divided by the Superintendent, with the ad-
    vice of his Executive Council and the Com-
    missioner of Crown Lands, but no alteration
    shall take place between the time of adver-
    tising the same for sale and the time of sale;
    provided always, that under special circum-
    stances proprietors may be permitted to
    complete their properties by the purchase of
    adjoining lands in blocks of irregular shape
    not exceeding forty acres, which, at the
    option of the applicant, will be either put
    up to auction or taken by him at a fixed
    price to be assessed by the Superintendent
    acting as aforesaid and having relation to the
    average value of land of the same character.

16. An authentic copy of the map or
    plan of every district and town site, signed
    by the principal Surveyor, and all reports of
    the Surveyors respecting the same shall be
    deposited in the Land Office, and shall at all
    times thereafter, during office hours, remain
    open to public inspection. And any cor-
    rection in the said maps and plans, requisite
    in consequence of further reserves, or of
    alterations in the size or shape of any sec-