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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Southland Waste Lands
Act, 1865," section 36, it is enacted, that if
any person shall contract with the Superintendent to
make and complete within a given time any public
road, bridge, drain, or other public work, or any part
of any such road, bridge, drain, or public work,
furnishing such security as the Superintendent may
require for the due completion of such contract,
shall offer to accept rural land by way of payment or
compensation, or by way of part payment or com-
pensation for such work, such person shall on the
completion of such contract be entitled to a free
grant of such land, or so much thereof as the Board
shall adjudge, not exceeding one acre for every one
pound sterling, which the Superintendent shall cer-
tify to the Waste Lands Board to be the bona fide
value of the work so done by such person according
to the prices for work and materials, at the time of
performing such contract, current in the district :
Provided always that the following rules shall be
observed in this behalf-

(1.) No greater amount of land than two hundred
and fifty acres shall, under the provisions of
this clause, be granted to any person under
any such contract, unless in payment of work
for which a vote has been passed by the Pro-
vincial Council.

(2.) No greater amount of land than one thousand
acres in the aggregate, shall, in any one year,
be granted under the provisions of this clause
without the special recommendation of the
Provincial Council, confirmed by the Gover-
nor in Council by a Proclamation to be issued
in the New Zealand Gazette.

And whereas the Provincial Council of Southland
on the eighteenth day of December, 1865, resolved
"That in the opinion of this Council it is desirable
that steps should be taken forthwith for the purpose
of completing and opening for traffic the Bluff
Harbour and Invercargill Railway," and by such
resolution recommended-1st "That a contract for
such works as might be requisite for that purpose
should be entered into without delay upon such
terms and conditions as the Superintendent should
think fit, and that payment of the price of such
works should be made in land, subject to and in
pursuance of the 36th section of 'The Southland
Waste Lands Act, 1865,' provided that such price
should not exceed in the whole the sum of twenty-
five thousand pounds;" and 2nd, "That a block or
blocks of land, not exceeding in the aggregate
twenty-five thousand acres in area, should be granted
for that purpose:" And whereas it is expedient that
such recommendation should be confirmed:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, do hereby proclaim
and declare that I do confirm the said recommen-.
dation of the said Provincial Council, and the same
is hereby confirmed.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of
the Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, at the
Government House at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this eleventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD..

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Approved in Council,

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS by the third section of "The Jury
Law Amendment Act, 1862," it is provided