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18. In the event of the second payment not being
    made as aforesaid, the sale shall be void and the
    deposit forfeited.

X.—Town Land—Price.

19. All town lands shall be sold in quarter-acre
    sections, at an upset price fixed by the Commissioner,
    which price shall in no case be less than twenty
    pounds an acre.

XI.—Suburban Land—Price.

20. Suburban lands shall be sold at an upset price
    to be fixed by the Commissioner, which price shall
    in no case be less than three pounds per acre.

XII.—Rural Land—Price.

21. Rural land shall be sold at an upset price of
    from five to forty shillings per acre: Provided always
    that lands supposed to contain minerals other than
    gold may be put up for sale at such higher price as
    may be fixed by the Commissioner with the approval
    hereinbefore required.

XIII.—Town, Suburban, and Rural Lands, put
up and not sold at Auction.

22. Any land that has been put up to auction and
    not sold, or sold and the deposit forfeited, may be
    purchased by any person, for cash, at the upset
    price at which the same was put up for sale, or the
    price at which it was sold, as the case may be, at any
    time, unless it shall have been specially withdrawn
    from sale by the Government: Provided always
    that it shall be lawful for the Commissioner, instead
    of permitting any land to be purchased under the
    last foregoing regulation, to cause the same to be
    put up again to auction, giving such notice thereof
    as is hereinbefore provided in respect of land to be
    offered at auction.

XIV.—Sale of Improved Lands.

23. The Government may, at its discretion, sell to
    any person who, with its license or permission had,
    prior to the date of these Regulations, occupied and
    made valuable improvements upon any land taken
    under the said Acts, the section upon which such
    improvements shall have been made: Provided that
    no land shall be sold under this regulation at a lower
    rate than that at which adjoining lands or lands
    corresponding in value would sell for.

XV.—Timber Licenses.

24. The Colonial Secretary may cause such annual
    licenses as he may think fit to be issued and
    renewed in his name, authorizing the licensee to cut
    and remove timber from such land as shall be fully
    described in such license, and there shall be paid for
    every such license and renewal such fee as the
    Colonial Secretary shall direct, not being less than at
    the rate of five pounds for twelve months.

XVI.—Pasturing Licenses.

25. The Colonial Secretary may cause pasturage
    licenses of any land to be issued. Every such license
    shall be granted by tender, and shall be terminable by
    the Colonial Secretary, as to the whole or any part of
    the land comprised therein, on two months' notice, and
    shall be subject to power to the Governor to cause such
    surveys, roads, or railways, as he may think fit, to be
    from time to time made within, through, or across
    the land comprised therein.

XVII.—Licenses or Leases to occupy Reserves.

26. The Colonial Secretary may cause a lease or
    leases to be issued in his name of the whole or any
    part of the land now described, or which shall here-
    after be described, on the maps of the West Coast,
    as the Railway Reserve; such lease to be granted by
    public auction or tender for any term not exceeding
    ten years, and with or without liberty to cut timber,
    and subject to such reservations as he may think fit,

subject always to power to the Governor from time
to time to cause such surveys, roads, or railways as
he may think fit to be made within, through, or
across the said reserve, and to take such timber as
may be necessary for public works from any part
thereof.

27. The Colonial Secretary may cause a lease or
    license to be issued in his name of any other
    reserve, or part of any reserve, not required for
    immediate or early use for the purposes for which
    they may have been reserved respectively: Provided
    always that every such lease or license shall be
    surrendered to Government, upon demand, at any
    time after notice of not less than one month, without
    any right to compensation on any account whatever
    accruing to the lessee.

XVIII.—Flax Leases or Licenses.

28. The Colonial Secretary may cause leases to
    be issued, authorizing the lessees to occupy land
    for the purpose of cutting and dressing flax, on the
    following conditions, viz.:—

29. That no lease shall comprise more than 600
    acres.

30. That every lease shall contain covenants on the
    part of the lessee to the following effect, viz.:—

(a.) To dress a definite number of tons of
flax annually, in proportion to the amount of
land leased.

(b.) To pay a certain annual rent, not being
less than 5 per cent on the price for sale that
would be set upon such land under these
Regulations.

29. Nothing in any lease contained shall affect the
    right of Government to take roads through any part
    of the land leased amounting to 5 per centum of the
    amount of such land; but such right shall always be
    possessed by the Government during the currency of
    the lease.

30. On the lessee's failing to perform any of the
    covenants in his lease, Government may put an end
    to the lease, take possession, and dispose of the land
    at its discretion, in accordance with these Regu-
    lations.

31. No right shall be given by any lease to pur-
    chase the land leased on any terms more favourable
    than are allowed by these Regulations to purchasers
    of sections occupied by permission, and on which
    improvements may have been made.

32. The Colonial Secretary may cause to be issued
    annual licenses to cut flax alone upon any land, on
    such terms as he may think fit.

XIX.—Scrip and Land Orders.

33. In all sales of land in the Province of Auck-
    land, whether by auction or otherwise, all scrip
    issued or to be issued to any person or persons by
    the Colonial Secretary, or any person duly deputed
    by him, in satisfaction of any claim of such person
    or persons for compensation, or in satisfaction of
    any sum awarded as compensation for losses sus-
    tained in the Province of Auckland by the rebellion
    in which certain persons of the Native Race have
    been engaged since the 1st of January, 1863, shall
    be taken in payment for such lands and in the
    purchase of any such land, and scrip shall be deemed
    and taken to be money for the amount for which the
    same shall have been issued, and shall be receivable
    for such amount as payment or part payment for any
    allotment of such land, to be sold under and subject
    to the regulations for the time being in force.

34. At any sale by auction or otherwise of any
    land, whether described as rural, suburban, town,
    or otherwise, the unexercised original, rural, or sub-
    urban Land Orders and Scrip, issued by the Plymouth
    Company of New Zealand or by the New Zealand