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12. The secretary shall inform the Commissioner of the
    names of the settlers, pay a deposit of 10s. per member, and
    also furnish the Commissioner with minutes of proceedings
    of the association if so required.
13. A certificate signed by the secretary of the association
    shall be sufficient evidence that the person claiming to select
    land is a member thereof.
14. Each settler shall, within two years from the date
    of his selection, bring into cultivation not less than one-
    tenth of the land selected by him.
    Each settler shall, within four years from the date of his
    selection, bring into cultivation not less than one-fifth of the
    land selected by him.
    Each settler shall, within six years of the date of his
    selection, in addition to the cultivation of one-fifth of the
    land, have put substantial improvements of a permanent
    character on the land to the value of £1 for every acre of his
    holding.
15. In the event of the death of a settler, his interest in
    the allotment will revert to his legal representatives, who
    may dispose of it to a bona fide settler approved by the Com-
    missioner; and the purchaser shall be deemed to stand in
    the position of the original settler.
16. Should any settler be compelled to leave the district, it
    shall be competent for the Commissioner to permit such
    settler to transfer his rights, title, and interest in the land
    selected to another bona fide settler, who shall be deemed to
    occupy the position of the original occupant: Provided
    always that no settler shall be allowed to hold more than
    320 acres under these regulations.
17. No person who is a holder of land on deferred pay-
    ments, or who has acquired any freehold under that system,
    or who is the holder of land on perpetual lease, and no person
    who is the owner of a pre-emptive right, or who is the owner
    in fee of any land in New Zealand, which together with the
    land included in his application or transfer under these regu-
    lations would exceed 320 acres, and no person who has made
    an arrangement or agreement to permit any one, save his
    son or daughter, to acquire by purchase or otherwise the
    allotment in respect of which his application is made, shall
    be entitled to become a settler under these regulations.
18. Any settler who shall fail to comply with these regula-
    tions in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to
    the satisfaction of the Commissioner, forfeit his interest in
    the land selected, and the Commissioner shall cause such
    interest to be sold by public auction to a bona fide settler;
    and these conditions shall be sufficient authority for such
    forfeiture and reallotment. Any settler so purchasing shall
    be deemed to stand in the position of the original settler.
19. The association may make such rules and regulations
    from time to time as it may deem necessary, subject to the
    approval of the Commissioner.
20. In case any doubt shall arise as to the construction of
    these terms and conditions, with reference to the selection
    and occupation or clearing of any land, or otherwise arising
    thereunder, the same shall be settled by the Commissioner.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

THE following rules are suggested for the guidance of asso-
ciations:—

1. The association is founded for the purpose of taking up
   acres in under the special-settlement regu-
   lations issued by the Government.
2. The name of the settlement shall be the Special
   Settlement.
3. There shall be a committee of management elected by
   ballot annually by the association, consisting of a chairman,
   secretary, treasurer, and seven members, five to form a
   quorum, whose duties shall be to carry out the objects of
   the association.
4. The committee from time to time may levy contribu-
   tions not exceeding 3d. per acre, to cover working-expenses.
5. Sections may be cut up in sizes varying from 50 to 320
   acres in extent, according to the requirements of members:
   Provided that the average area held by each member does
   not exceed 200 acres.
6. The rent to be paid for each allotment shall be at the
   same rate as that paid by the association to the Govern-
   ment.
7. The sections shall be allotted by ballot, each settler to
   take the number on the plan corresponding to that drawn
   by him, from No. 1 to No. 100.
8. Up to the time of the allotment of sections no settler
   will be allowed to transfer his interest without the consent
   of the committee; and in no case will a transfer be allowed
   for a money consideration.

NAMES OF OFFICE-BEARERS AND COMMITTEE.
.........................Chairman.
.........................Secretary.
.........................Treasurer.
.........................Committee.

Changing the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in
Canterbury.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth
day of December, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE MR. BUCKLEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the first column of
the Schedule hereto was reserved for Provincial
Government purposes by the Superintendent of the Province
of Canterbury:
And whereas the said reserve is for one of the purposes
comprised in Class I. of the Schedule to “The Public Re-
serves Act, 1881,” and, in the opinion of the Governor, it is
expedient to change the purposes of such reserve to another
of the purposes named in the said Class I., as hereinafter
mentioned:
Now, therefore, His Excellency 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 exercise of the
powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section
of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” doth hereby order and
direct that the purpose of the reserve mentioned in the first
column of the said Schedule hereto shall be changed from
that of a reserve for Provincial Government purposes, and
doth hereby declare and define the purpose of the said
reserve to be that specified in the second column of the
said Schedule, the same being one of the purposes com-
prised in Class I. of the Schedule to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifteenth
day of December, 1891.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE MR. BUCKLEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor
in Council by Kipa te Whatanui and others, com-
prising a majority in number of the Native owners of the
land described in the second column of the Schedule
hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of
such land contained in the Crown grant, bearing date the
seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, described in the first column of the said
Schedule, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been
duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court
has reported that the provisions of the law in that behalf
have been complied with: And whereas it appears ex-
pedient to grant such application:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable
William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred on him by “The Native Land Act, 1865,” and
acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that all
restrictions imposed by the said Crown grant on the aliena-
tion of the said lands are hereby removed.