DEC. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1719

(g.) All moneys received by the Agent-General
under this agreement shall be deemed to be and shall
be dealt with as revenue derived from the sale of
Crown lands.

(h.) For the purpose of the foregoing conditions
an "adult emigrant" means a person of either sex
being not less than twelve years of age, but two per-
sons under twelve shall be reckoned as one adult.
Infants under twelve months shall not be reckoned.

8. In the event of deaths occurring amongst the
   settlers on the voyage, or other unforeseen casualty
   happening, the Governor may, at his discretion, ex-
   tend the period within which settlers may be placed
   on the land for such a period, to be fixed by him, as
   will enable the Selector to carry out these con-
   ditions.

9. Within three months after arrival, the settlers
   shall be placed on the land selected, in such blocks
   or allotments as they may have agreed on with the
   selectors; but at least forty-five families of settlers
   must be settled on the land set apart for the pur-
   poses of this agreement.

10. Within six months after the respective arrivals
    the Selectors shall erect or cause to be erected on the
    land twenty-four and twenty-one dwelling-houses
    respectively, to be well and substantially built of
    timber or other durable materials, each of such
    dwelling-houses to contain at least three rooms; and
    there shall be a dwelling-house to each block occupied
    by a settler. If the selectors fail to erect such
    dwelling-houses, no settler shall be entitled to his
    grant until this condition be complied with.

11. Each settler shall for a period of three years
    continuously occupy the land so selected; and one-
    fifth of the land so occupied shall be brought into
    cultivation before the expiration of the said term of
    occupation. For the purposes of these regulations
    cultivation shall mean—

(1.) Breaking up and laying down the same in
English or other cultivated grass; or

(2.) Breaking up and planting or sowing root or
other crops therein.

(3.) In the case of bush land, cultivation to mean
burning off and surface-sowing; and in the case of
swamp land, draining and surface-sowing.

12. Each settler occupying a block of land shall
    have the right at any time prior to the expiration of
    the term of occupation aforesaid to acquire such
    block by purchase, at a price per acre and payable in
    such manner as may be agreed upon between the
    Selectors and the settler; but the settler shall be
    entitled at any time to pay up the balance unpaid of
    such purchase-money, and, subject to the provisions
    of the next section, viz., No. 13, to get his Crown
    grant hereunder.

13. Each settler shall be entitled to his grant upon
    proof to the satisfaction of the Governor that he has
    fulfilled the conditions herein contained as to cul-
    tivation, and also that he has paid to the Selectors
    the price agreed upon for the purchase. The written
    statement of the Selectors that they have been paid
    in full shall be sufficient evidence that full payment
    has been made.

14. If at any time previous to the expiration of
    the term of occupation aforesaid the said Selectors
    shall have faithfully performed the foregoing terms
    and conditions as hereinbefore required, then the
    Governor shall cause a Crown grant to be issued to
    the said Selectors for so much of the land as has not
    been taken up by settlers.

15. Every grant issued under these regulations
    shall contain an express power to the Governor at
    any time to take not exceeding five per cent. of the
    land comprised therein for roads, railways, or other
    public works, without payment of any compensation
    for the land so taken, and each grant shall be issued
    subject to the payment of the usual Crown-grant
    fees. The right of the Crown to gold and silver will
    be reserved, and the right to work the same, subject
    to compensation for any surface damage.

16. If the Selectors shall not well and faithfully
    fulfil the terms and conditions of these regulations,
    or shall commit or suffer any breach thereof (of which
    the Governor shall be sole judge), or shall fail in
    the observance or performance of all or any of the
    said conditions, then these regulations and every
    clause therein contained shall cease and be void,
    and neither the said Selectors nor any settler or
    other person whomsoever shall have any claim or
    demand to or in respect of the said land, nor for
    any compensation on account thereof: Provided
    that if any settler has fulfilled all the conditions
    hereinbefore prescribed, he shall nevertheless be
    entitled to his grant; and the Governor may receive
    and act upon such evidence as he shall deem suffi-
    cient as to the payment of the purchase-money by
    the settler to the Selectors, and the grant may issue
    accordingly.

17. The Selectors shall not be at liberty to assign
    their rights or privileges as such Selectors (otherwise
    than in accordance with the foregoing terms and
    conditions) without the written consent of the Go-
    vernor first obtained.

SCHEDULE.

LAND ORDER FOR SPECIAL SETTLEMENT AT TE AROHA,
NEW ZEALAND.

MR.
, of [address and occupation], having duly con-
tracted with us to become a settler in the above-named special
settlement, is hereby granted this land order, entitling him to
select and occupy
acres of land in the said settlement,
subject to the terms and conditions fixed by the Governor in
Council under the authority of an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, and called "The Land Act 1877 Amendment
Act, 1879."

Dated this
day of
, 18
(Signed.)

Witness to signature:

I,
, accept this land order, subject to the above-
mentioned terms and conditions (which, so far as they affect
me, are printed on the back hereof); and I have made arrange-
ments for the following persons to accompany me to the said
special settlement.

Dated this
day of
, 18
Witness to signature:
(Names in full.)
(Ages.)

MESSRS. GRANT and FOSTER have paid to me the sum required
to be paid by them under the above-mentioned terms and con-
ditions, in respect of the area of land comprised in this land
order.

Dated this
day of
, 18
Agent-General.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting a Reserve in the Arrowtown Athenæum
(Incorporated).

A. GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventh day of December, 1880.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule
hereto was reserved as a site for a public
library: And whereas, in the opinion of the Go-
vernor, it is expedient to vest the said land in the
Arrowtown Athenæum (Incorporated):

Now, therefore, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in