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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Terms and Conditions of Special Settlement, Hawke's
Bay.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
first day of August, 1876.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Hawke's Bay Special Settle-
ments Act, 1872," it is, among other things,
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent
of the Province of Hawke's Bay, with the consent
of the Provincial Council, by Proclamation in the
Government Gazette of the said province, to set aside
out of the waste lands within the Province of Hawke's
Bay, the Native title of which has been extinguished,
any block or blocks for the purpose of special settle-
ment, not exceeding in the whole thirty thousand
acres, on such terms as may be sanctioned by the
Governor in Council, anything in the existing
regulations for the management or disposal of the
waste lands in the province to the contrary notwith-
standing:

And whereas the said Superintendent, with the
consent of the Provincial Council as aforesaid, hath
proposed to set aside the block of land in the Wood-
ville District in the said province, described in the
First Schedule hereto, containing two thousand five
hundred acres, more or less, as a special settlement
under the said Act, for the members of an associa-
tion called the Woodville Small-Farm Association,
upon the terms hereinafter mentioned:

And whereas the said Superintendent, with the
consent of the Provincial Council as aforesaid, hath
requested the Governor to sanction the said terms:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exer-
cise of the power and authority vested in him by the
said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby
sanction the terms set forth in the Second Schedule
hereto as the terms under which the said proposed
special settlement shall be made under the said Act.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land situated in the Woodville
District, containing by admeasurement two thousand
five hundred (2,500) acres, more or less, and bounded
as hereinafter described. Commencing at the south-
west corner of Rural Section No. 1 of Woodville, and
being bounded to the East by that section and by
Section No. 3; to the South by Sections Nos. 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, and 9, and by Suburban Sections Nos. 24, 23,
18, and 17, and by Rural Sections Nos. 10 to 23; to
the North-east by a line bearing 120 degrees, 174
chains; to the North-west by a line bearing 235
degrees, 125 chains; to the South-west by a line
bearing 180 degrees, 135 chains, to the main line of
the road, and by the said road, 32 chains, to the starting
points at Rural Section No. 1.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Terms and Conditions for the Occupation and Purchase
of the Block of Land proposed to be set aside for
Special Settlement as aforesaid.

1. The object of this Association shall be the
   establishment of a small-farm settlement near the
   Town of Woodville, in the Province of Hawke's Bay.

2. The business of the Association shall be
   managed by a Committee of seven members, includ-
   ing the Secretary and Treasurer, to be elected by the
   shareholders annually, whose duty shall be to carry
   out the object of the Association. The Secretary
   shall act as manager, and shall have charge of all
   books and other property, and shall carry out the
   instructions of the Committee and general meeting,
   and shall receive and answer all correspondence for
   this Association.

3. No question of vital importance to the Associa-
   tion shall be decided by the Committee so as to bind
   the members, unless resolved upon at a general
   meeting of members, due notice of which shall be
   given; and all questions carried and decided upon
   by a majority of the members then present shall be
   binding upon the Association, unless contrary to the
   rules and laws under which the Association shall be
   formed.

4. The members of this Association shall be males
   not under twenty-one years of age, who shall hold
   not less than thirty shares, and shall undertake to
   occupy and pay for the land in conformity with these
   regulations, and also in conformity with the terms
   laid down by the Government and Provincial Council
   of Hawke's Bay, and terms as agreed upon by his
   Honor the Superintendent on their behalf.

5. Occupation shall be the enclosing of at least
   ten per cent. of the land taken up by each share-
   holder, and clearing the same, and the erection of
   a tenement the value of which shall not be less than
   ten pounds (£10), before the end of the second year;
   and further, that at least twenty per cent. of the
   land taken up by each shareholder shall be enclosed
   with a good and substantial fence, cleared and put
   into crop before the end of the fourth year; clearing
   to mean that all trees less than ten (10) inches in
   diameter at three (3) feet from the ground shall be
   felled, and also the actual residence of a member
   himself or his family during the whole of the third,
   fifth, and seventh years of the term.

6. The settlements shall be divided into allotments
   not exceeding one hundred and fifty acres each,
   according to the requirements of the shareholders,
   together with reserves (if required) for public or
   educational purposes, which will be laid out by the
   Government.

7. Each share shall represent one acre of land, and
   no member shall subscribe for, or occupy, more than
   one hundred and fifty acres, or less than thirty acres.

8. Every member of this Association shall pay an
   entrance fee of twopence for each share at the time
   of entrance, towards the general fund of this Associa-
   tion.

9. The allotment of sections shall be made at a
   general meeting of the Association, and in such
   manner as shall be agreed to by a majority of the
   members attending such meeting.

10. The price of each acre shall be one pound (£1)
    sterling, payable every three months, at the rate of
    ninepence (9d.) per share for each and every share,
    until the member shall have paid one pound sterling
    for each and every share he may hold. Any member
    will be at liberty to pay larger instalments, or the
    whole balance of purchase money in one payment,
    after he has complied with Rule No. 5 as far as refers
    to improvements and the residence on his section the
    third year.

11. Each member shall pay, or cause to be paid,
    his instalments from time to time to the Treasurer,
    whose receipt shall be sufficient voucher for such
    payment. Payment shall be made on the twentieth
    day of June, on the twentieth day of September, on
    the twentieth day of December, and on the twentieth
    day of March, in each year.

12. Any surplus money arising from the fines,
    entrances, or levies shall be applied by the Committee
    to the payment of expenses which have been and will
    be incurred in establishing and carrying out this
    Association, and to any other purpose which a
    majority of the members shall decide at a general
    meeting.

13. All moneys paid to the Treasurer on account
    of the Association shall be placed in the Bank of New