THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 643

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 temporarily 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 there-
upon cease to be so reserved. Schedules and plans
of all public reserves shall be forwarded to the office
of the Secretary of Crown Lands by the Commis-
sioner of Crown Lands in all cases as soon as pos-
sible after such reserve shall have been set forth
as aforesaid.

17. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths,
    and foot-paths 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: Provided always that, upon
    the recommendation of the County Council, approved
    by the Waste Lands Board, the Governor may with-
    draw any such lands as sites for towns, or make such
    alterations in their boundaries as may be recom-
    mended as aforesaid.

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 deter-
    mined before the coming into operation of these
    Regulations, shall be sold under these Regulations
    in and according to such sizes and prices so deter-
    mined as if determined under these Regulations,
    unless otherwise determined hereunder.

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 sec-
    tions 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 newspapers
    of the County.

26. Every auction sale of land shall be held by the
    Commissioner in open Court, as hereinbefore pro-
    vided.

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 immediately 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 Commissioners 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.

VII.—Suburban and Rural Land.

30. Waste Lands of the Crown in the County
    of Westland, not being town land, may, from time to
    time, be declared open for sale by the Waste Lands
    Board, by Proclamation in the County of Westland
    Gazette. Such Proclamation shall define the boun-
    daries and position of the blocks of land so pro-
    claimed open for sale, and shall classify the same
    as suburban land, or rural land.

31. All suburban or rural lands (but not lands
    within any proclaimed township) sold under the
    provisions of these Regulations, shall, after sale,
    be open to entry by miners for the purpose of
    mining for gold, subject to rules and regulations
    set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed to be
    from time to time made by the Governor in Council
    in that behalf.

32. I hall be lawful for the Waste Lands Board,
    at any time within five years from the date at which
    a Crown Grant shall be issued for any land sold
    as suburban or rural land, to cause to be laid out
    and reserved through such lands such roads, tram-
    ways, or railways as such Board may think fit. Upon
    the survey of all lands sold as suburban or rural
    land there shall be added an amount equal to five per
    cent. of the total acreage so sold for the purposes of
    such roads, tramways, and railways as aforesaid.

33. Persons who shall prove to the satisfaction
    of the Waste Lands Board that they have, previous
    to the seventeenth day of February, one thousand
    eight hundred and sixty-eight, made improvements
    to the value of not less than thirty pounds on
    land declared open for sale as suburban or rural
    land, shall have a pre-emptive right of purchase over
    the lands in which such improvements have been
    made to the extent of not more than ten acres of
    suburban land at the fixed price of three pounds per
    acre, and fifty acres of rural land at one pound,
    or two pounds per acre, according to the class in
    which such rural land shall be placed. Such pre-
    emptive right shall, however, be forfeited, unless
    claimed within one month from the date at which