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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander 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; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House at Wellington, this
tenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-six.
H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Alteration in Regulations for Settlement on Special
Blocks of Land.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Proclamations under "The Im-
migration and Public Works Act Amend-
ment Act, 1871," bearing date the 24th day of
November, 1874, and the 7th day of October, 1875,
respectively, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 3rd day of December, 1874, and
the 7th day of October, 1875, respectively, certain
regulations were, on the recommendation of the
Minister, made for the sale, occupation, and disposal
of certain lands which had been reserved and set
apart by the Proclamations therein referred to:

And whereas the Minister has recommended the
Governor to alter certain of such regulations:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers vested in me by the said Act, and on the
recommendation of the said Minister, do hereby
make the Regulations in the Schedule hereto; and
do direct that the Regulations of the 24th day of
November, 1874, and the 7th day of October, 1875,
shall be read as if the Regulations in the Schedule
hereto had been incorporated therewith in lieu of
the seventh and eighth of such first-mentioned
Regulations respectively.

SCHEDULE.

(1.) During the first four years of his occupation, if
the settler shall have erected on the land selected a
habitable dwelling-house, and shall have improved
the land by felling the bush thereon, cropping or
laying down in grass, and fencing at least five acres
thereof, he shall be allowed to continue his holding
and to purchase the land at a price of £1 per acre,
payable in equal annual instalments; such instal-
ments to be payable at the end of each year after
the expiration of the first four years. The money to
be paid in such manner and to such persons as the
Minister shall from time to time direct.

(2.) If at the end of the said four years' occupa-
tion the settler shall be in a position to pay for his
land at once, he shall be at liberty to do so at the
rate aforesaid: Provided that nothing in this regu-
lation shall prevent any settler from paying for his
land at the end of two years' occupation, at the rate
aforesaid, if he shall then have satisfied all the condi-
tions required by the 7th regulation of the 24th day
of November, 1874, and the 7th day of October,
1875, respectively, in lieu of which the 1st regula-
tion hereunder has been substituted.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at the Government House
at Wellington, this fifteenth day of Feb-
ruary, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
H. A. ATKINSON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Sections 20 to 45 of "The Public Health Act, 1872,"
to be in force in certain Districts, Province of
Auckland.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of February, 1876.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the second section of "The Public
Health Act Amendment Act, 1875," it is
enacted that the Governor in Council may make
Orders from time to time directing that the provisions
contained in the sections twenty to forty-five of "The
Public Health Act, 1872," both inclusive, or any of
them, be put in force in New Zealand, or in such
parts thereof or in such places therein as in such
orders respectively may be expressed, and may in
like manner revoke any such order; and, subject to
such revocation as aforesaid, every such order shall
be in force for such period as shall be expressed in
such order, and, in case no period shall be expressed
in such order, then such order shall be in force until
revocation; and every such order shall be published in
the Gazette, and such publication shall be conclusive
evidence of such order to all intents and purposes;
and none of the said provisions shall be in force in
any part of New Zealand until an order directing
the same to be put in force shall have been made and
published as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council,
and in exercise and pursuance of all powers and
authorities in this behalf in him vested, doth hereby
direct that the provisions contained in the sections
of "The Public Health Act, 1872," numbered from
twenty to forty-five, both inclusive, shall be put in
force in the districts in the Province of Auckland
mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

THE Borough of the City of Auckland, as defined in
the First Schedule to "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867."

The Newton Highway District, as defined in the
Auckland Provincial Government Gazette, No. 17,
dated 16th July, 1874, page 104.

The Ponsonby and or Dedwood Highway District,
as defined (under the name of the Dedwood High-
way District) in the Auckland Provincial Govern-
ment Gazette, No. 43, dated 24th August, 1868, page
387.

The Karangahape Highway District, as defined in
the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette, No.
75, dated 4th October, 1869, page 1257.