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IX.
School Teachers and Common Schools.

79. For the purpose of encouraging persons
    qualified to teach in Common Schools to settle in
    the Province of Auckland, every such person who
    shall produce to the Superintendent a certificate
    signed by the Chairman of the Board of Edu-
    cation of the said Province, established under the
    provisions of the Education Act, 1857, that such
    person is qualified to teach Reading, Writing,
    Arithmetic, and English Grammar, such person
    shall be entitled to receive a Land Order for the
    selection of 80 acres of General Country Land.

80. No such Land Order shall be transferable,
    but the Teacher to whom the same shall be granted
    shall be entitled to a Crown Grant of the Land
    selected by him under such Land Order at the
    expiration of five years from the date of such
    Order, upon proof to the satisfaction of the Su-
    perintendent that such Teacher has been engaged
    during the whole period of such five years in
    teaching youth within the said Province in a
    Common School in connection with the said Board
    of Education.

81. Provided always that in the event of the
    death of any such Teacher at any time within the
    said term of five years, his appointee constituted
    in writing, or in default of such appointee his le-
    gal representative, shall be entitled at once to a
    Crown Grant of the Land selected or to be then
    selected under such Land Order.

X.
Occupation of Waste Lands.

82. The Rules and Regulations set forth in the
    Schedule hereunto annexed, shall remain and be
    in force for regulating the issue of Pasture and
    Timber Licenses for the occupation of Waste
    Lands of the Crown outside Hundreds.

83. Any Commissioner appointed under these
    Regulations shall have, exercise, and perform all
    the rights, powers, and duties which the Commis-
    sioner of Crown Lands mentioned in the said
    Rules and Regulations had or could exercise and
    perform under the said Rules and Regulations.

Miscellaneous.

84. It shall be lawful for the Commissioner,
    within three months after notice shall have been
    given in the "Government Gazette" for the Pro-
    vince of Auckland, to cause to be surveyed, at
    the applicant's cost, (which shall be paid by such
    applicant before the Crown Grant shall be issued)
    all lands remaining unsurveyed, which shall have
    been applied for, and the application granted,
    under any Regulations relating to unsurveyed
    Lands in force within the Province of Auckland,
    prior to the ninth day of March, 1858.

85. Any Commissioner appointed under these
    Regulations shall possess, exercise, and perform
    all the rights, powers, acts, and duties which the
    Waste Land Board, under the Waste Lands Re-
    gulations published in the "New Zealand Go-
    vernment Gazette," dated the ninth day of Feb-
    ruary, 1855, and the Waste Lands Commissioner
    under the Waste Land Regulations published in
    the "New Zealand Government Gazette," dated
    the fourteenth day of May, 1856, and also the Waste
    Land Commissioner appointed under the said
    "Auckland Waste Land Act, 1858," respectively
    possessed, or could exercise and perform, so far as
    may be necessary to complete, carry out, or com-
    pel the performance of any contract, agreement,
    or other matter whatsoever, which may have been
    lawfully made, entered into, or commenced, but
    not completed, under the said Waste Land Regu-
    lations and Act respectively, before the com-
    mencement of these Regulations.

86. Throughout these Regulations, in the con-
    struction thereof, the word "Governor" shall
    mean the person for the time being lawfully
    administering the Government of the Colony of
    New Zealand; and unless there be something in
    the subject or context repugnant to such con-
    struction, words importing the singular number
    only shall include the plural, and words im-
    porting the plural number only shall include the
    singular, and words importing the masculine
    gender only shall include females.

87. These Regulations shall be deemed to
    have been in full force and effect on and
    after the ninth day of March, 1858, and
    all acts and things done or performed
    under authority of the Auckland Waste Land
    Act, 1858, shall be deemed and considered as
    having been done and performed under the
    authority of these Regulations, and all acts and
    things directed to be done or performed by the
    said Act shall be deemed and considered as
    directed to be done and performed by these
    Regulations, and all appointments made under
    the authority of the said Act shall be deemed
    and considered to have been made under these
    Regulations.

88. These regulations may be cited for all
    purposes as the "Auckland Waste Land Regu-
    lations, 1859."

SCHEDULE.

OCCUPATION OF CROWN LANDS.

1. All persons requiring Licenses for Runs on
   unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands, or for
   portions of the same which they now occupy,
   shall lodge a description of such Run (as near as
   may be in the form B hereunto annexed) with
   the Waste Land Commissioner.

2. If no objection exists to the applicant being
   allowed to occupy such Run, the Commissioner
   shall thereupon publicly notify that it has been
   claimed as a Run, and shall at the same time
   publish in the Government Gazette the name of
   the person claiming the Run and the description
   thereof.

3. No person shall be allowed to dispute the
   claim of another person to any Run applied for
   under these Regulations unless he shall do so
   within three months subsequently to the date
   of the publication above mentioned.

4. After the expiration of three months from
   the date of the said publication, the applicant
   shall be required to pay rent for the Run at the
   rate and in the manner after mentioned, and to
   distinguish by marked trees or posts or in such
   manner as shall be satisfactory to the Com-
   missioner, such boundaries of the Run as are not
   distinctly defined by streams or natural boun-
   daries.

5. Any person who shall have a Run or any
   considerable part thereof unoccupied by the
   requisite amount of stock for a period of six
   months after he shall have claimed the same,
   shall be liable to be regarded as having abandoned
   such Run or part thereof, and if the Com-
   missioner shall find it necessary publicly to
   notify that such Run or part thereof has been so
   abandoned, it shall thereupon be given into the
   occupation of the first applicant for it.

6. In estimating the sufficiency of Stock for any
   Run applied for, the Commissioner shall not
   allow for natural increase in any proportions,
   with respect to the amount of stock on the Run,
   greater than those set forth in the following
   scale :-