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made in that behalf shall direct, subject to any
regulations to be at any time, or from time to
time, made by the Governor in Council.
14. Crown Grants of all lands sold under these
regulations shall be prepared and forwarded to
the Secretary for Crown Lands within one month
after the completion of the sale, in the case of
town lands, and within one month after the com-
pletion of the survey, in the case of suburban
and rural lands.

IV. The Land Revenue.

15. All payments to be made in respect of land
    and other payments to be made under the pro-
    visions of these regulations shall be made to the
    Receiver of Land Revenue during the sitting of
    the Board, and the Receiver shall thereupon give
    receipts for the same.

V. Public Reserves.

16. Reserves for the uses of the Colonial Govern-
    ment and for other public purposes may be made
    by the Governor, by writing under his hand, and
    shall not be alienated from the specific purposes
    to which they shall have been severally dedicated,
    except under the provisions of an Act of the
    General Assembly, intituled "The Public Reserves
    Act, 1854;" and a full and complete description
    of every such reserve and of the purposes to which
    it shall have been dedicated shall, so soon as
    possible after it shall have been made, be published
    in the County of Westland Gazette, and set forth
    on the authenticated maps in the Land Office:
    Provided that the Waste Lands Board may tem-
    porarily reserve land for such purposes, and if
    such temporary reserve shall not be confirmed by
    the Governor, in manner aforesaid, within three
    months from the date at which such temporary
    reserve was made, such land shall thereupon
    cease to be so reserved. Schedules and plans of
    all public reserves shall be forwarded to the office
    of the Secretary for Crown Lands by the Com-
    missioner of Crown Lands, in all cases as soon as
    possible after such reserves shall have been set
    forth as aforesaid.
17. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths,
    and footpaths shall be made by the Waste Lands
    Board, and shall be set forth on the authenticated
    maps in the Land Office.
18. The Waste Lands Board may temporarily
    reserve any land for the preservation or sale of
    the timber thereon; but such land may at any
    time cease to be so reserved upon a resolution of
    the County Council.

VI. Town Lands.

19. The sites of towns shall from time to time
    be determined by the Governor, upon the recom-
    mendation of the County Council, and shall be
    notified by proclamation in the County of Westland
    Gazette, and all sites for towns determined to be
    such sites before the coming into operation of
    these regulations shall continue to be sites for
    towns as if determined hereunder.
20. Town lands shall be sold by public auction,
    in sections, the size and upset price of which shall
    be determined by the Governor on the recom-
    mendation of the County Council; and having
    been so determined for each town severally, such
    upset price shall not be diminished; and all town
    lands, the size and upset price of which have been

determined before the coming into operation of
these regulations, shall be sold under these
regulations, in and according to such sizes and
prices so determined as if determined under these
regulations, unless otherwise determined here-
under.
21. The time and place of every auction sale
shall be fixed by the Waste Lands Board, and
shall be notified in the County of Westland
Gazette, and one or more newspapers circulating
in the County, at least thirty days before such
sale shall take place.
22. No such notification of any sale of town
lands shall be published until a map of the town,
signed by the Chief Surveyor, shall have been
laid open for public inspection in the Land Office;
and such map shall set forth, accurately delineated,
the town sections numbered consecutively, so
far as laid out, showing the sections to be
submitted for sale.
23. Town sections may be put up to auction,
either by order of the Waste Lands Board, or
upon the application of some person who shall,
at the time of making such application, deposit
ten per cent. of the upset price with the Receiver
of Land Revenue. Such deposit shall, if no
advance on the upset price be made, be considered
as the deposit upon the sale at such public
auction.
24. If any town section shall at the auction
sale be purchased by other than the original
applicant, the deposit money shall be returned
on demand.
25. Ten days at least before any such auction
sale, a list of all the sections about to be offered
for sale shall be published in one or more news-
papers of the County.
26. Every auction sale of land shall be held
by the Commissioners in open court, as herein-
before provided.
27. The person who shall be declared the
highest bidder at such auction shall immediately
pay a deposit of ten per cent. of the purchase
money to the Receiver of Land Revenue, and in
default thereof, the section shall be again imme-
diately put up to auction.
28. The remainder of the purchase money shall
be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue in full,
within fifteen days after the day of sale; and in
default thereof the purchaser shall forfeit his
deposit money, and also all right or title to the
land; and the section may be sold to any person
applying for the same for the price at which it
was knocked down at the auction; and, if not so
sold, the section may be again put up to auction
at any future sale.
29. Upon payment of the purchase money in
full, the purchaser shall receive from the Com-
missioners a License to Occupy, in the form set
forth in Schedule A. to these regulations, and
such license shall be delivered up upon receipt of
a Crown Grant of the land purchased.
30. Any occupant of town sections, not being
reserves, in Hokitika, Greymouth, or Okarita,
who shall prove to the satisfaction of the Waste
Lands Board, within two months after the coming
into operation of these regulations, that he has
erected improvements on such sections to the
value of twenty-five pounds or upwards, shall be
allowed to purchase such sections at a fixed price