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Company, and conferring, or purporting to confer
on the owner or holder thereof the right to select,
according to a fixed and definite order of choice,
fifty acres of rural or suburban land respectively,
within the Settlement of New Plymouth, shall be
considered as equivalent, in the purchase of any
such lands as aforesaid, to the amounts following,
that is to say—

Land Orders for the selection of rural
land—for every acre of the number of
acres mentioned therein ... 2 0 0
Land Orders for the selection of sub-
urban land—for every acre of the
number of acres mentioned therein... 3 0 0

XX.—Payment for Public Works with Land Scrip.

35. If any person shall be desirous of making, build-
    ing, or constructing any road, bridge, or other work
    of public utility, and of being allowed payment in
    land in respect of the cost of the same, he shall make
    application in writing for authority for that purpose
    to the Commissioner.

36. If the Commissioner shall be satisfied, after
    due investigation and inquiry, that it is desirable that
    the proposed road, bridge, or other work of public
    utility shall be made, built, or constructed, and the
    plans and specification thereof shall be approved by a
    competent person to be appointed by the Commis-
    sioner, the Commissioner may grant authority for the
    said work to be completed.

37. When the said work is completed, it shall be
    examined by a competent person to be appointed by
    the Commissioner; and if such person shall report
    that the same is constructed in accordance with the
    plans and specifications, and with proper materials
    and workmanship, the Colonial Secretary, or any
    person duly deputed by him, shall grant to the
    person at whose cost the said work has been made,
    built, or constructed, Land Scrip to the extent
    of one-half of the value of the work performed, such
    value to be fixed by some competent person appointed
    by the Commissioner in that behalf.

38. The Land Scrip so granted shall be deemed
    and taken to be money for the amount for which the
    same shall have been issued, and shall be receivable
    at any time within three months from the date of its
    issue as payment or part payment for any allotment
    of general rural land open for sale or selection in the
    district, block, or county, specified in the face of such
    scrip in which the work or works in respect of which
    such scrip hasbeen granted may be situate.

39. No greater sum shall be paid in land to any
    one person under these Regulations than three
    hundred pounds in any one year; nor shall the total
    sum so to be paid within one year exceed five
    thousand pounds, except under the direct authority
    of the Governor in Council.

40. The particulars of every such work, the amount
    and the position of the land to be given in payment,
    and the name and residence of every person to whom
    such land is to be given, shall be published in the New
    Zealand Gazette at least three months before the
    issue of any grant of the same.

41. The foregoing Regulations, from 35 to 40 in-
    clusive, shall not apply to the construction of any
    railroad for which a special reserve shall have been or
    may hereafter be made, but the Governor may in
    such case enter into such arrangements and contracts
    for the construction thereof, and payment therefor, in
    land, as may seem expedient in each case.

42. These Regulations shall take effect within such
    limits, and be applicable to such districts only, as the
    Governor may by Proclamation from time to time
    direct and declare.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland, this
fifth day of April, 1870.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Distillation Act, 1868," it
is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, by Order in Council, from time
to time to suspend, during such time as may appear
expedient, the operation of any provisions of the
said Act: And whereas it is expedient to suspend
the operation of one of the provisions contained in
the one hundred and thirty-ninth section of the said
Act:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, in pursuance of the said recited power
and authority, and by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
doth hereby suspend, until this Order in Council
shall be revoked, the operation of so much of the one
hundred and thirty-ninth section of the said Act as
requires the Chief Inspector of Distilleries to cause
the names and residences of all persons registered
under the said Act as Wine and Spirit Merchants,
and as Brewers, to be published in the New Zealand
Gazette.

Approved in Council.

HENRY D. PITT, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS it is enacted by "The Native Lands
Act, 1867," that it shall be lawful for the
Governor from time to time to fix fees additional to
those specified in the sixty-second section of "The
Native Lands Act, 1865," or to increase or diminish
those fixed, or in any other manner to alter such fees,
which fees, when so fixed, increased, or diminished or
altered, shall be paid, collected, and enforced as if
inserted in the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby,
in pursuance of the said power, fix the fees contained
in the Schedule hereunder written to be the fees
which the Chief Judge, or Judges, of the Native
Lands Court may demand and take, or charge in
manner provided by the last-named Act, in lieu of
those set forth therein.

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 Auckland, this fifth day of
April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.

Approved in Council.

HENRY D. PITT, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

SCHEDULE.