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Secretary shall be exercised by any person the Governor may think fit:

And whereas it is expedient that the said powers should be vested in the person and in manner hereinafter expressed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby direct that the powers granted to the Colonial Secretary by the sixth section of the said Act shall be exercised by

EDGAR HALL CAREW, Esquire,

of Dunedin, within the Provincial District of Otago, in the said colony.

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale of the Danevirk Village Settlement, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,

Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of April, 1884.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF LANDS PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twenty-first section of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands comprised in any village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand has, by Proclamation, set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto for sale as a village settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby fix the following terms and conditions upon which the said village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,—

1. The lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be disposed of as village allotments for cash, and as small-farm allotments for cash and upon deferred payments.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for application shall be Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, at the Land Office, Napier.

3. The lands enumerated in the First and Second Schedules hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase, and the lands enumerated in the Third Schedule hereto shall be sold on deferred payments.

4. The lands which are disposed of by sale upon deferred payments shall be subject to the provisions relating to suburban lands of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1877,” in cases where the allotments are twenty acres or under, and to the provisions of the said Part III. relating to rural land where the allotments exceed an area of twenty acres; also to the provisions of section nine of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879.”

5. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments, and no person who has previously taken up an allotment in any village settlement shall be allowed to acquire an allotment in the Danevirk Village Settlement.

6. The prices stated in the Schedules hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.

7. If there should be more than one application for any allotment in the First Schedule, the right to purchase the same shall be determined by auction amongst the applicants only, at the upset prices named therein; and if there should be more than one application for any allotment in the Second or Third Schedules, the right to occupy the same shall be determined by lot amongst the applicants.

8. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section in the Third Schedule will be required to make the declaration prescribed by section sixty-two of “The Land Act, 1877,” and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the Hawke’s Bay Land District one-tenth of the price if the allotment is twenty acres or under, and one-twentieth if the area is greater than twenty acres. Such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

9. The purchaser of any lands described in the First and Second Schedules, upon the full payment of the purchase-money, and the purchaser of any lands described in the Third Schedule, upon the like payment, and also the fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by “The Land Act, 1877,” “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” and “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882,” relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to his Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way upon payment of the fees prescribed by law.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TAHORAITE SURVEY DISTRICT.—DANEVIRK VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Village Allotments for Cash.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

TAHORAITE SURVEY DISTRICT.—DANEVIRK VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Small-Farm Allotments for Cash.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

TAHORAITE SURVEY DISTRICT.—DANEVIRK VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Small-Farm Allotments on Deferred Payment.

FORSTER GORING,

Clerk of the Executive Council.