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9. Each applicant for a deferred-payment section will be required to make the declaration prescribed in the Second Schedule hereto, and shall at the time of application deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district one-tenth of the price of the allotment; such payment shall be deemed to be a discharge of the license-fee for the six months due on the next first day of January or July following the date of the license, as the case may be; and, upon fulfilment of the terms and conditions prescribed by the said Act relating to land on deferred payments, will be entitled to the Crown grant, to be issued in the usual way.

10. Each applicant for any of the allotments on perpetual leasing will be required to make the declaration prescribed in the Third Schedule hereto, and to deposit with the Receiver of Land Revenue for the land district a sum equal to one half-year's rent of the allotment included in the application, and such payment shall be in discharge of the half-year's rent due on the first day of January or July which shall first ensue after the commencement of the term, together with the sum of thirty shillings for the lease and registration thereof.

11. Each applicant for a section for cash will be required to make a statutory declaration that he is applying for the land solely for his own use and benefit, and not for the use and benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

CROYDON VILLAGE.

Croydon Village is situate about four miles from Gore Railway-station, on the Invercargill-Dunedin line, and is undulating bush-land. Section No. 750 consists for most part of stony hill, and not much of it available for cultivation; there is, however, a pretty fair quantity of timber thereon. Sections valued at £1 15s. per acre are of a broken nature, and rather stony. Water can be obtained on all the sections. Section 772 is burdened with valuation for improvements to the extent of £100; Section 782, £60; Section 783, £10; and Section 787, £50.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

FORM OF DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY AN APPLICANT UNDER THE DEFERRED-PAYMENT SYSTEM.

I, , of , do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:-

(1.) I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

(2.) I am making the present selection of land under the system of deferred payments, under "The Land Act, 1885," and its amendments, bond fide for my own exclusive use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever, and for the purpose of cultivation.

(3.) I am not the holder, either in my own name or in the name of any other person, of, and I am not beneficially interested in, any lands of the Crown within the colony under the deferred-payment system, or under the perpetual-lease system, or under any agricultural lease, to an amount which, added to the acreage comprised in this present application, would exceed fifty acres in extent.

(4.) I am not the owner of 50 acres of land in all.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882."

(Signature.)

Taken and declared at , this day of , 18 , before me, , a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Received on , 18 , at , , Commissioner of Crown Lands.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

DECLARATION ON TAKING A PERPETUAL LEASE.

I, , of , in the Land District, and Colony of New Zealand, , do solemnly and sincerely declare-