Rate at which Scrip is
to be computed in the
Province of New Ply-
mouth.

Land Orders and
Scrip not to be exer-
cised within certain
districts.

Short titl.e

146. the proper quantity being made up where necessary, by including some con-
     tiguous portion of an adjoining section, or where a section may exceed in area
     the whole quantity to be selected, by dividing a section, in either of which
     cases, the portion taken, shall be laid off by the Government surveyor. And
     provided, secondly, that for the purpose of enabling such selections to be
     made according to the priority aforesaid, a convenient day and place be appointed
     for the purpose by the Superintendent of the Province, by notice published in
     the "Government Gazette" of the Province, which notice shall be published
     at least three months before the day appointed hereby. And provided, thirdly,
     that every such selection be made subject to the ordinary regulations in force
     respecting shape, frontage, and other particulars of selection. And provided,
     lastly, that such right of prior selection shall be at an end, so soon as two hun-
     dred and fifty acres of town land, two thousand five hundred acres of su-
     burban land, and forty thousand acres of rural land, to be approved of by the
     Governor, shall have been offered for selection. And all such Land Orders
     then remaining unsatisfied, shall be subject to the provisions next hereinafter
     made respecting other original Land Orders within the said Province.

147. Within the Province of New Plymouth, all unsatisfied original land or-
     ders issued by the Plymouth Company of New Zealand or by the New Zealand
     Company, and conferring, or purporting to confer, on the owners or holders
     thereof, the right to select land within the Settlement of New Plymouth, and
     to priority of application or otherwise than in a fixed and definite order
     of choice, shall be considered as equivalent in the purchase of Waste
     Lands of the Crown, to an amount of Government Scrip computed at the
     rate of £2 sterling in Government Scrip, for every acre of land which
     such land orders purport to entitle the holders to select, and all supplementary
     land orders, and compensation or land scrip issued by the said New Zealand Com-
     pany shall be considered as equivalent in the purchase of Waste Lands of the
     Crown within the said Province, to an amount of Government Scrip computed
     at the rate of £1 sterling in Government Scrip for every acre of land which such
     last mentioned land orders or land scrip purports to entitle the holders to select.
     And all such land Orders and land scrip as well original as supplementary shall
     not be otherwise available or exercisable for the purchase or selection of Waste
     Lands of the Crown.

148. The Superintendent and Provincial Council of any of the
     said Provinces, except the Province of New Plymouth, may from time to time,
     by Act or Ordinance declare certain districts within the said Waste Lands in
     each Province to be Townships, with rural and suburban lands, annexed thereto,
     and, also agricultural and small farm reserves, and no Government scrip shall
     be exercised within such districts except in payment to the extent of twenty per
     cent. of the purchase money of any allotments therein purchased, unless with
     the express consent of such Superintendent and Provincial Council, and where
     the amount of any Government scrip tendered in the purchase of any allotment
     shall exceed twenty per cent. of the price thereof, the party tendering the same
     shall be entitled to a credit for the balance of such scrip towards further pur-
     chases, and so on, in like manner, until the scrip be exhausted. Provided that
     such reserves shall not in any province exceed in the aggregate one hundred
     thousand acres.

149. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "Land Orders and Scrip
     Act, 1856,"