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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE,

the said contract and to carry out the same, and to
have had and to have power to make regulations for
carrying out the terms of such contract, and generally
such regulations and proclamations as in the said
contract mentioned or referred to: And whereas
by a Proclamation bearing date the eighth day of
February, 1873, after reciting the hereinbefore recited
provisions of "The Wellington Debts Act, 1872,"
and otherwise as in such Proclamation is recited, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
of the power and authority therein mentioned, and
on the recommendation of the Minister in the said
Act mentioned, did reserve and set apart the piece or
parcel of land in the Township of Palmerston, con-
taining ten acres or thereabouts, therein described,
and as the same is also described in the First
Schedule to the Regulations hereinafter contained:
And whereas by a certain other Proclamation bearing
date the twenty-eighth day of August ultimo, after
reciting the said hereinbefore recited provisions of
"The Wellington Debts Act, 1872," and otherwise
as aforesaid, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, in the manner and under the authority
aforesaid, did reserve and set apart the piece or
parcel of land in and about the Township of Palmer-
ston, containing one hundred and six thousand
acres or thereabouts, as described in the Schedule
thereto, and as the said land is also described
in the Second Schedule to the Regulations here-
inafter contained: And whereas it is expedient
that, in pursuance of the hereinbefore in part recited
powers and authorities, and in order to give effect to
the said deed of the twenty-sixth day of December,
1871, regulations for the sale, occupation, and
disposal of the lands therein mentioned or referred
to should be made in the manner hereinafter
provided: And whereas in accordance with the
provisions of "The Immigration and Public Works
Act Amendment Act, 1871," the Minister therein
mentioned hath recommended to the Governor that
the Regulations hereunto annexed should be made
for the purposes aforesaid:
Now therefore, His Excellency Sir James Fergus-
son, Baronet, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, on such recommendation as aforesaid, and
in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore in part
recited powers and authorities, and of all other powers
and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth
hereby make the Regulations hereto annexed for the
sale, occupation, and disposal of the lands so reserved
and set apart for the purposes and in the manner
aforesaid.

REGULATIONS.

1. In the construction of these Regulations, the
   following words and expressions shall have the mean-
   ings hereby assigned to them respectively, unless
   from the context it shall be apparent that some other
   meaning was intended, that is to say,-
   "Colonial Treasurer" shall mean the Colonial
   Treasurer of the Colony for the time being.
   "Minister" shall mean the Minister for Immi-
   gration, or other the Minister for the time
   being acting for such Minister.
   "Corporation" shall mean "The Emigrant and
   Colonist's Aid Corporation (Limited)," and
   shall include the Agent of the Corporation
   resident in the Colony.
   "Contract" shall mean the said deed of the
   twenty-sixth of December, 1871, and here-
   inbefore in part recited.
   "Lands" shall mean the several blocks or parcels
   of land so reserved and set apart as afore-
   said, and described in the said respective
   Proclamations hereinbefore recited.

2. The whole of the said lands shall, immediately
   on the publication hereof, cease to be subject to the
   law in force in the Province of Wellington for the
   sale of waste lands of the Crown.

3. The several blocks of land with totara timber
   thereon, described in the Third Schedule, containing
   in the whole one thousand acres, and being the one
   thousand acres referred to in the contract, shall be
   exempt from the operation of the Regulations follow-
   ing until all the totara timber is cut and removed
   therefrom; but the Corporation shall have the right
   to purchase the said land after the timber has been
   removed therefrom, in accordance with the said
   contract, and shall have such other rights in relation
   thereto as therein is provided.

4. The Corporation shall have the exclusive right
   of occupation of all the land to which these Regula-
   tions apply until the said right shall cease in accord-
   ance with the terms of the contract.

5. As to the piece of land containing ten acres,
   the same shall be sold to the Corporation; and upon
   payment to the Colonial Treasurer of fifteen shillings
   for every acre thereof, a grant from the Crown for
   the same shall be issued to the Corporation in the
   usual form.

6. The residue of the land subject to these Regula-
   tions shall be sold only to persons approved by the
   Corporation, and all contracts for the purchase or
   occupation thereof shall be made with the Corpora-
   tion and not with the Crown, and such lands shall be
   sold at such prices, and in such sections, and subject
   to such conditions as the Corporation shall from
   time to time fix. Notice of every such contract
   entered into with the Corporation must be given to
   the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Province
   of Wellington before the first of April, 1879. All
   land as to which no such notice shall be given will,
   if claimed by the Corporation under the said contract,
   be conveyed to it after that date; and upon payment
   by the Corporation of fifteen shillings for every acre
   of the land so sold, Crown grants thereof shall be
   issued to the persons so approved by the Corporation
   as purchasers thereof.

7. Payment for the said land may be received in
   advance from the Corporation in the manner provided
   in the contract.

8. When the Corporation shall notify to the Colo-
   nial Treasurer that no more of the land subject to
   these Regulations is needed for sale to purchasers by
   the Corporation, the whole residue of such land not
   then sold, after making allowance for land required
   for public roads, shall be sold to the Corporation upon
   payment of fifteen shillings for every acre of the land
   so sold, and a grant from the Crown thereof shall be
   issued to the Corporation.

9. No land occupied by a public road shall be sold
   or granted to any person or to the Corporation; but
   all such roads and the soil thereof shall remain vested
   in the Crown, except as in the seventeenth clause of
   the said contract mentioned.

10. The lands shall be surveyed in the manner pro-
    vided by the fifteenth clause of the contract.

11. Every purchaser of land under these Regula-
    tions, (excepting purchasers of land in Block marked
    "Subdivision A," containing ten thousand acres, and
    now in course of survey,) shall be entitled to a grant
    from the Crown, upon the Corporation paying the
    purchase money, and the purchaser paying the usual
    fees for the Crown grant and incidental to the issue
    thereof; but the Government of the Colony shall
    not be answerable for any delay in issuing grants
    arising from incompleteness of survey.