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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of February, 1871.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements
Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865," it
is enacted that the order and manner in which land
taken under the authority of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New Zealand
Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865,"
should be laid out for sale and sold should be at
the discretion of the Governor, who shall have power
to cause such land or any part thereof to be laid out
for sale and sold from time to time, in such manner,
for such consideration, and in such allotments as he
shall think fit, and subject to such regulations as he
shall, with the advice of the Executive Council, from
time to time prescribe: And whereas by "The New
Zealand Settlements Amendment Act, 1866," it is
provided that the said lands shall be sold for such
consideration or at such price, and whether for cash
or otherwise, as the Governor shall from time to time
prescribe, and that all lands taken under authority of
the said "New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and
"The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and
Continuance Act, 1865," or either of them, and sold
or disposed of under the authority of the said first-
recited Act, shall be sold or disposed of under
Regulations to be made by the Governor in Council,
which Regulations shall be published in the New
Zealand Gazette: And whereas the House of Repre-
sentatives, on the fifteenth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, resolved
that the recommendation of the Select Committee
appointed to consider the petition of Major Brown,
namely, "That local rank at least as a Field Officer
ought to have been given to Major Brown when he
was in command of the same number of Militia at
Taranaki as the Field Officer who preceded him, and
that he is therefore entitled to the difference in pay
and allowances between what he received and what
he would have been entitled to as Major in Command,'
be submitted to the favourable co sideration of the
Government, on the understanding that the Govern-
ment may, if they think fit, award such difference
not in money but in land:" And whereas a Board
having been constituted in that behalf by the Govern-
ment, has ascertained that the pay and allowances
recommended in the said recited resolution amount
to the sum of three hundred and ten pounds four
shillings and fivepence (£310 4s. 5d.): And whereas
it is expedient that a regulation be made under the
Acts aforesaid, enabling the Governor to give effect
to the hereinbefore in part recited resolution of the
House of Representatives:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him
in that behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
make the following Regulation for the sale and
disposal of land taken under the said Acts or either
or any of them, in any part of the said Colony :--

Regulation.

It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown
Lands to sell to the said Major Charles Brown the
sections named in the Schedule hereto on credit at
the prices at which the same were respectively put
up to auction, amounting to the sum of three hundred
and ten pounds four shillings and five pence (£310
4s. 5d.); payments for the same to be made out of
any moneys voted by the House of Representatives
for that purpose: Provided always that nothing in
this or any other regulation issued under the authority
of the said Acts shall prevent or delay the issue of a
Crown Grant or Grants of the lands aforesaid to the
said Major Brown, notwithstanding that the said
moneys shall not at the time of the issue of such
grant have been actually voted by the House of
Representatives aforesaid.