THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 219

apart sufficient land for all persons who shall be
entitled thereto under the contracts therein referred
to, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to
cause towns to be surveyed and laid out, and also
suburban and rural allotments; and that all such
town, suburban, and rural lands shall be sold, oc-
cupied, and disposed of for such prices, in such
manner and for such purposes, upon such terms and
subject to such regulations, as the Governor in
Council shall from time to time prescribe for that
purpose:

And 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 allot-
ments as he shall think fit, and subject to such
regulations as he shall with the advice of the
Executive Council 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 the authority of the said
"New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and "The
New Zealand Settlements Amendment and Con-
tinuance 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 His Excellency the Governor did, on
the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council, make regulations for
the sale and disposal of lands in the West Coast
District taken under the said Acts:

And whereas it is expedient that the land described
in the Schedule hereto should be sold to the Opunake
Flax Company, Limited, at and for the price of three
pounds per acre:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities
enabling him in this behalf, and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand,
doth hereby order that the land described in the
Schedule hereto, shall and may be sold to the
Opunake Flax Company, Limited, at and for the
price or sum of three pounds per acre, and that John
Stephenson Smith, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown
Lands for the Province of Taranaki, shall and may
conduct the said sale.

SCHEDULE.

PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.

Opunake.

All those parcels of land situated on the Otahi
River, containing ten (10) acres and three (3) roods,
more or less, being the suburban allotments num-
bered respectively nine (9) and ten (10) upon the
map of Opunake in the General Crown Lands Office.

WILLIAM FOX,
Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
eleventh day of May, 1871.

Present:

THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, AND
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Mining Companies Limited
Liability Act, 1865," it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may from time to time appoint
in and for each Mining District some proper person
to be Official Agent in and for such District, and
may require of such person such security as he shall
think fit:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby appoint

BENJAMIN SMITH, Esq.,

of Wellington, in the Province of Wellington,
Accountant, to be Official Agent, subject to the
provisions contained in the said Act and "The
Mining Companies Limited Liability Act Amend-
ment Act, 1869," in and for the Mining District of
the Province of Wellington, and doth hereby require
of the said Benjamin Smith security by bond, with
two approved sureties, in the form and to the amount
specified in the Schedule hereto.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

Know all men by these presents that wel
and² and are held and firmly bound
unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria in the sum of
five hundred pounds of good and lawful money of
Great Britain, to be paid unto our said Lady the
Queen, her heirs and successors, for which pay-
ment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves
and every of us, jointly and severally, for and in
the whole, and the heirs, executors, and adminis-
trators of us and every of us, firmly by these
presents. Sealed with our seals. Dated³ this
day of in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

WHEREAS the said
has been appointed
an Official Agent under "The Mining Companies
Limited Liability Act, 1865," and whereas the above
bounden and have agreed to join
with the said in the above-written bond or
obligation as the sureties of the said for the
due and faithful performance of the duties of his said
office:

Now the condition of the above-written obligation
is such that if the said from time to time, so
long as he shall continue and be employed in the
said office, shall duly perform the duties of the said
office under the said Act and under "The Mining
Companies Limited Liability Act Amendment Act,
1869," and duly account for and pay over all moneys
which shall come to the possession or be under the
control of himself or his agents, by reason of or by
virtue of the said office or employment; and shall
from time to time observe and keep all such orders
and instructions as he shall receive from the Governor
of New Zealand for the time being touching the due
performance and execution of the said office; and
shall from time to time, and at all times hereafter,
so long as he shall hold the said office, well and truly,