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abouts, in Canterbury 9,000,000 acres or thereabouts, in Otago 15,000,000
acres or thereabouts. And whereas it is expedient to define and settle the
rights of the said owners of such Land Orders and Scrip. BE IT ENACTED
by the General Assembly of New Zealand as follows:---

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act, Ordinance, Regulation,
   or Proclamation to the contrary, all Land Orders issued by the New Zealand
   Company, which have not been exercised or commuted, entitling the holders or
   owners thereof to select a definite quantity of Land within any of the said
   Company's Settlements, except New Plymouth, may hereafter be exercised and
   used in the selection of the same quantity of Land as is specified in such
   Land Orders, out of the Waste Lands of the Crown, over which the Native
   title shall have been extinguished at the date of the passing of this Act, situate
   within the Province in which such Settlement lies, but not elsewhere, subject to
   the ordinary regulations for the time being, in force as regards shape, frontage,
   and other particulars of selection, and subject to the exceptions and reservations
   hereinafter contained; and all such selections shall be made, according to
   priority of application, at the Land Office of the District wherein the same are
   to be made.
   Land Orders may
   be exercised on Land

2. The commutation of New Zealand Company's Land Orders and Scrip
   for Government Scrip made in accordance with the provisions of the New Zea-
   land Company's Land Claimants' Ordinance, shall, in all cases, be deemed to
   have been valid up to the date of the passing of this Act, but no such com-
   mutation shall be made after such date.
   Commutation of Com-
   pany's Land Orders
   for Government Scrip
   declared valid.

3. All such Scrip as aforesaid issued by the Government of New Zealand
   remaining unexercised at the date of the passing of this Act may be exercised
   within the Province within which the Settlement is situated in respect of
   which such Scrip was issued, and not elsewhere, but, except as hereinafter is
   provided with respect of the Province of New Plymouth, no such Scrip shall be
   exercised over any lands in which the title of the Natives shall not have been
   extinguished at the date of the passing hereof.
   Government Scrip—
   where to be exercised.

4. Where selection has heretofore been made, by virtue of any such Land
   Orders, of lands over which the native title is not extinguished, such land orders
   shall not entitle the holders to claim such lands when the native title may here-
   after be extinguished, but the same shall be deemed to be unexercised land
   orders, and exercisable as such.
   Where selection has
   been made of Native
   land, land orders &c
   to be deemed unexer-
   cised and be exercis-
   able as such.

5. Within the Province of New Plymouth, Government Scrip shall be
   available in the purchase of lands over which the native title now is, or hereafter
   shall be extinguished, subject nevertheless to the regulations respecting Govern-
   ment Scrip now in force within the said Province.
   How Scrip to be ex-
   ercised in Province of
   New Plymouth.

6. Within the said Province of New Plymouth, every unexercised original
   Land Order issued by the Plymouth Company of New Zealand, or by the New
   Zealand Company, and conferring or purporting to confer on the owner or
   holder thereof, the right to select in a fixed and definite Order of choice fifty
   acres of land within the Settlement of New Plymouth, shall entitle such
   owner or holder in priority to general purchasers, and according to the afore-
   said order of choice to select out of any lands over which the Native title now
   is or hereafter shall be extinguished, and which shall be declared open for pur-
   chase (except the Huia Village site) one acre of town land, or twelve and a half
   acres of suburban land, or fifty acres of rural land, at the option of such
   owner or holder, and subject to the following conditions (that is to say):
   Provided, first, that every such selection in town or suburban land, or in rural
   land, divided into sections, be, so far as may be, of an entire section or sections,
   How original Land
   Orders may for the fu-
   ture be exercised in
   the Province of New
   Plymouth.