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PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Co'onel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General As-
sembly of New Zealand, intituled The
Waste Lands Act, 1854, 'it is provided that
if the Superintendent and Provincial Council
of any Province shall recommend to the Gov-
ernor any Regulations for the sale, letting,
disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of
the Crown within such Province, it shall be
lawful for such Governor, if he shall think fit,
with the advice of his Executive Council, by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Govern-
ment Gazette, to issue and put in force such
Regulations within such Province, on a day to
be named in the Gazette in which the same
shall be published, not being less than one ca-
lendar month from the publication thereof.

AND WHEREAS the Superintendant and the
Provincial council of the Province of Can-
terbury have recommended to me the fol-
owing Regulations for the sale, letting, dis-
posal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of
the Crown within the said Province.

Now therefore I, the Governor, pursuant to
the authority vested in me in that behalf by
the said recited Act, do hereby, with the ad-
vice of the Executive Council, proclaim and
issue the following Regulations; and I do
hereby declare that the same shall come into
force on the 1st day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six.

Given under my hand and issued
under the public seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at Auck-
land, in the Islands aforesaid, this
ninth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

REGULATIONS

For the Disposal, Sale, Letting, and Occupa-
tion of the Waste Lands of the Crown in
the Province of Canterbury.

1. All Regulations now in force in the
   Province of Canterbury for the sale, letting,
   dispon, and occupation of the Waste Lands
   of the Crown are hereby repealed.

2. All such Waste Lands shall from and
   after the day on which these Regulations
   shall come into force, be sold, let, disposed of,
   and occupied according to these Rugulations,
   and not otherwise.

3. Everv Act which the Superintendent
   is hereby authorised or required to perform,
   he shall perform solely in accordance with
   the advice of his Executive Council for the
   time being, and such advice shall be recorded
   on the minutes of the Council.

II.—The Waste Lands' Board.

4. There shall be established a Board to be
   called the Waste Lands' Board, to consist of
   one Chief Commissioner, and of not less than
   two nor more than five other Commissioners,
   all of whom (except such one as shall be ap-
   pointed, to act as Treasurer, shall be appointed
   and be removable by Warrant under the hand
   of the Superintendent.

5. One member of the Waste Lands' Board
   shall also be the Treasurer thereof, and such
   member shall be appointed and removable by
   the Governor.

6. The Waste Lands' Board shall sit at the
   principal Land Office of the Province at cer-
   tain stated times to be determined by the
   Superintendent, and shall also sit for special
   purposes at such places, and at such times as
   the Superintendent shall direct, of which sit-
   tings due dotice shall be given in the Provin-
   cial Government Gazette, and one or more
   newspapers published in the Province.

7. The Chief Commissioner, when present,
   and in his absence, then some member se-
   lected by those present at any meeting of the
   Board, shall preside thereat, and shall have a
   casting vote in all questions coming before
   the Board.

8. All questions coming before the Board.
   shall be decided by a majority of the Com-
   missioners present thereat.

9. All meetings of the Board shall be at-
   tended by at least three Commissioners and
   shall be open to the public.

10. All applications for Land and for Pas-
    turage and for Timber Licenses shall after
    hearing evidence, when necessary, be deter-
    mined by the Board at some sitting thereof.

11. The Board shall have power to hear
    and determine all disputes between the
    holders of pasturage and timber licenses, res-
    pecting the boundaries of runs and districts,
    and shall have and exercise all the powers
    which may be lawfully had and exercised by
    any Commissioner of Crown Lands, under the
    Provisions of the Crown Lands' Ordinance,
    Sess. X, No. 1; and the Crown Lands' Ex-
    tension Ordinance, Sess. XI, No. 10.

12. All the routine business of the Land
    Department shall be transacted by the Chief
    Commissioner subject to such regulations as
    may be made by the Board in that behalf.

13. A book to be called the "Application
    Book" shall be kept open during office hours
    at the Land Office, in which the name of
    every person desiring to make any applica-
    tion to the Board shall be written in order by
    himself or any person duly authorised on his
    behalf. And the Commissioners shall during