Numb. 16.
143

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

W HEREAS by the seventeenth section of an
Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
intituled "The County of Westland Act, 1867," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council from time to time as he may think fit, by
proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette,
to make regulations for the sale, letting, disposal,
occupation, and management of any Waste Lands
of the Crown, and to alter the laws in force within
the said County of Westland at the time of the
coming into operation of the said Act, regulating the
sale, letting, disposal, occupation, and management
of such lands within the said County of Westland,
and to sell, let, and dispose thereof at such prices,
and in such allotments, and generally in such manner
as he shall deem expedient; and, in like manner, to
alter, vary, or annul any such regulations and to
make others: Provided that it shall not be lawful
by any such regulations to authorize the sale of land
classified under such regulations as rural land at a
less price than ten shillings per acre: Provided also
that nothing in the said seventeenth section of the
said Act contained shall affect or authorize the
making of regulations to affect any promise, contract,
or engagement made by or on behalf of Her Majesty
previously to the coming into operation of the said
Act and then incomplete or unfulfilled:

said power and authority and with the like advice
and consent, proclaim and declare that the laws
in force within the said County at the time of the
coming into operation of "The County of Westland
Act, 1867," regulating the sale, letting, disposal,
occupation, and management of such lands within
the said County shall be altered in the manner
provided in and by the regulations contained in the
Schedule hereto. And in further pursuance and
exercise of the said power and authority, and with
the like advice and consent, I do proclaim and
declare that the said regulations shall come into
force on the first day of May now next ensuing,
except the regulations numbered three, four, and
twelve, so far as the same empower the Governor
to make the appointments and to fix the times and
places as in the said regulations three, four, and
twelve, provided.

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority conferred on
me by the hereinbefore recited Act, do hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, make and proclaim the regulations
contained in the Schedule hereto, for the sale,
letting, disposal, occupation, and management of the
Waste Lands of the Crown within the County of
Westland, and in pursuance and exercise of the

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twentieth
day of March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN HALL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE, LETTING, OCCUPATION,
AND MANAGEMENT OF THE WASTE LANDS OF THE
CROWN IN THE COUNTY OF WESTLAND.

1. All Acts and Regulations now in force in
   the County of Westland for the sale, letting,