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near as conveniently may be to the stockade
in one acre allotments.
9. Farms will be laid out around, or as near
as conveniently may be to the town. The
size of the farm section allotted to each will
be according to his rank in the Militia.
For a Field Officer ... 400 acres.
" Captain ... 300 "
" Surgeon ... 250 "
" Subaltern ... 200 "
" Sergeant ... 80 "
" Corporal ... 60 "
" Private ... 50 "
10. Every settler under these conditions,
who upon being relieved from actual service,
receives a certificate of good conduct, will
be entitled to one town allotment and one farm
section.
11. Priority of choice for each rank will be
determined by lot.
12. After taking possession he will be en-
titled to receive rations, free of cost for
twelve months, upon the same scale as sup-
plied to Her Majesty's troops; he will be
allowed to retain possession, as a militiaman,
of his arms and accoutrements, and he will be
supplied with ammunition for use according
to militia regulations.
13. No settler after taking possession will
be permitted during the first three years after
his enrolment in the Militia to absent himself
from his settlement for more than one calen-
dar month in any one year without the leave
of the Governor first obtained.
14. During such three years he will be
liable to be trained and exercised as other
militiamen; and whenever a portion only of
the Militia shall be called out for actual ser-
vice, each settler will be deemed to be a
Volunteer Militiaman, and will be required
to serve as such anywhere that may be re-
quired in the Northern Island of the Colony.
During such service he will be entitled to
the same pay, rations and allowances as
other Militiamen.
15. On the expiration of three years
from his enrolment, each settler, having
fulfilled the conditions, but not other-
wise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant
of the town allotment and farm section allot-
ed to him; and will thenceforth be subject
only to the same Militia services as other
colonists.
16. Any settler will be permitted to dis-
pose of his land to any person approved of by
the Government; and such person under-
taking to be subject to the same liabilities
will be entitled to the same privileges as the
settler whose place he takes.
17. In case of the death of any settler,
before he shall have become entitled to his
Crown Grant, the land to which he is
entitled, will be granted to his wife or chil-
dren, or to such other person as he shall by
writing appoint; or it may be taken for the
location of another settler under these con-
ditions, or for any other purpose, but the value
thereof in such latter case will be determined
by valuation, and the amount paid by the
Government to the settler's widow or chil-
dren, or other person appointed as afore-
said.

FORM OF DECLARATION AND AGREEMENNT.

I do hereby declare that I fully understand
the "Conditions" hereunto annexed, and I do
engage and agree to be bound thereby, and
punctually on my part to fulfil all the terms
thereof.

NOTE.—The pay of the Militia and Volunteers serving in New Zealand is as follows:

Captains ... ... ... 11s. 7d. per diem
Lieutenants ... ... ... 6s. 6d. "
Ensigns ... ... ... 5s. 3d. "
Sergeants ... ... ... 3s. 6d. "
Corporals ... ... ... 3s. "
Privates ... ... ... 2s. 6d. "
—With Rations and other Allowances.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th Sept., 1863.

T
HE following Report from Capt Roels of
the barque City of Melbourne, as to the
Bar at the entrance to the Waikato River, is
published for general information.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Waikato River,
28th August, 1863.

In reference to questions by Mr. Armitage,
I beg to state that to my knowledge the bar of
the Waikato is a very good and safe entrance
for any vessel not drawing more than 10 to 12
feet, having entered at half-tide ebb with the
barque City of Melbourne. The channel is
not a long one, is straight, and has plenty of
water.

P. G. ROELS,
Master City of Melbourne.