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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
Otago 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
twelfth 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!

LAND REGULATIONS
FOR THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO, NEW
ZEALAND.

I.
General Regulations.

1. All regulations now in force for the sale,
   letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste
   Lands of the Crown within the Province of
   Otago shall be, and are hereby repealed.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 the terms of these Regu-
   lations, and not otherwise.

3. The Waste Lands of the Crown shall be,
   and are hereby divided into two classes, as fol-
   lows, viz.—

4. TOWN LAND—being the sites heretofore
   reserved, or which shall be hereafter
   reserved for towns and villages.

5. RURAL LAND—being Wasie Lands of the
   Crown, and not lands reserved for
   towns or villages or other public pur-
   poses.

6. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land
   Board (hereinafter constituted) with consent of
   the Superintendent and his Executive Council
   at any time, and from time to time, to declare
   by notice in the "Provincial Government Ga-
   zette" that any land which may belong to either
   of the said classes shall thenceforth cease to
   belong to such class.

II.
Town Land.

5. All town land shall be sold by auction ac-
   cording to the Regulations hereinafter prescribed
   for auction. The upset price of allotments of
   such land shall be fixed by the Waste Land
   Board, subject to the approval of the Super-
   intendent and his Executive Council.

III.
Rural Land.

6. All rural land shall be sold at a uniform
   price of 10s. per acre, subject to the conditions
   hereinafter contained.

7. Every applicant for the purchase of rural
   land shall, except as hereinafter provided by
   clause No. 13 on payment of 10s. per acre for
   the land specified in his application, or for such
   part thereof as shall be granted to him by the
   Waste Land Board, receive from the said Board
   a certificate entitling him to take possession of
   the land therein specified under an obligation
   as a conditon of purchase to lay out upon the
   said land within four years from the date of
   such certificate, in money or labour, for all im-
   provements including buildings and fences, a
   sum equal to 40s. per acre.

8. Every holder of a certificate as aforesaid
   shall be entitled to demand and receive a Crown
   Grant in fee of the land specified in such cer-
   tificate, so soon as he shall have proved to the
   satisfaction of the Waste Land Board that he has
   fulfilled the conditions of purchase hereinbefore
   provided by clause 7.

9. No holder of a certificate as aforesaid shall
   be entitled to assign the land specified therein
   until he shall have obtained the consent of the
   Waste Land Board, and on such consent being
   given the person to whom such land shall be
   assigned shall, on payment of a fee of 20s., be
   registered by the said Board as the proper
   occupier of such land, and shall be entitled to
   a Crown Grant as aforesaid, so soon as all the
   conditions and obligations incumbent on the
   original grantee shall have been fulfilled.

10. Every application for the purchase of
    rural land shall be made to the Waste Land
    Board, in a form to be by it prescribed, and its
    decision on such application shall be given on
    such day as it shall appoint, at which time the