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DIEU ET MON DROIT

LAND ORDERS AND SCRIP ACT, 1856.

IN THE TWENTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN
VICTORIA,

SESSION 4, No. 31.

ANALYSIS.

Title.
Preamble.

Land Orders, may be exercised on Land.
Commutation of Land Orders for Government Scrip declared valid.
Government Scrip—where to be exercised.
Where selection has been made of Native
land, land orders &c to be deemed un-
exercised and be exercisable as such.
How Scrip to be exercised in Province of
New Plymouth.
How original land orders may for the future
be exercised in Province of New
Plymouth.
Rate at which Scrip is to be computed in the
Province of New Plymouth.
Land Orders and Scrip not to be exercised
within certain districts.
Short title.

Title.

Preamble.

Repealed by
Act 77 1858.

AN ACT to define and settle the rights of holders of Land Orders and Scrip

(Assented to 16th August, 1856.)

WHEREAS by virtue of contracts between the New Zealand Company and
the purchasers of land from that Corporation, and also by virtue of cer-
tain Acts, Ordinances, Proclamations, and Regulations, certain persons are, or
claim to be entitled to and possessed of Land Orders and Scrip empowering
them to select specified quantities of the Waste Lands of the Colony, subject
to certain exceptions, and certain of the said Scrip is payable as cash at specified
rates at any general Land Sales within the Colony except as aforesaid, And
whereas there are remaining undisposed of in the several Provinces of New
Zealand the following quantities of Waste Lands over which the Native title
has been extinguished by the Crown, that is to say—In Auckland 219,000
acres or thereabouts, in Wellington 3,000,000 acres or thereabouts, in New
Plymouth 25,000 acres or thereabouts, in Nelson 14,000,000 acres or there-

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1856, No 32

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Land Orders and Scrip Act, 1856 analysis and preamble (continued from previous page)

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated16 August 1856
KeywordsLegislation, Land Orders, Scrip, Crown Lands, Provincial selection, Native title

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