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7. The settlers shall be members of the association, and no settler shall be under seventeen years of age.

8. The secretary shall inform the Commissioner of the names of the settlers; pay a deposit of 1s. 3d. per acre, being half survey-fee, the balance to be paid on completion of the survey; and also furnish the Commissioner from time to time with minutes of proceedings of the association if so required.

9. The original or amended list of members, signed by the secretary of the association, and sent to the Commissioner, shall be prima facie evidence that the persons claiming to select land are members of the association.

10. Each settler shall put on the land comprised in his lease substantial improvements as follows:—

    (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, to a value equal to ten per centum of the price of the land;

    (b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another ten per centum of the price of the land;

    (c.) And thereafter, but within six years from the date of his lease, to a value equal to another ten per centum of the price of the land;

And in addition thereto shall, within six years from the date of his lease, put substantial improvements of a permanent character to an amount equal to the net price of every acre of such land.

11. Residence and occupation of the land shall be in accordance with Part III. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

12. No person who is the owner in fee or leasehold of any land in New Zealand which, together with the land included in his application or transfer under these regulations, 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.

13. Any settler who shall fail to comply with these regulations in any respect shall, upon sufficient proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Land Board of the district, forfeit his interest in the land selected, and the land shall thereafter be dealt with as ordinary Crown land; and these conditions shall be sufficient authority for such forfeiture.

14. The association may make such rules and regulations from time to time as it may deem necessary, subject to the approval of the Commissioner.

15. In case any doubt shall arise as to the sufficiency of the compliance with these regulations, with reference to the selection, occupation, or improvement of any land, or otherwise arising thereunder respectively, the same shall be settled by the Land Board.

16. Excepting as expressly modified by these regulations, the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and its amendments shall be deemed to have full force and effect over and upon the land herein referred to, and shall, mutatis mutandis, be read as if these regulations formed part of the Act.

    Schedule.

    All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 9,000 acres, situated in Section 2, Block XI.; Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, Block XII.; Sections 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, Block XV.; Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, Block XVI., Waoku Survey District.

    ALEX. WILLIS,
    Clerk of the Executive Council.

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    Lake Ellesmere Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

    GLASGOW, Governor.

    ORDER IN COUNCIL.

    At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1896.

    Present:

    HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

    BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Land District of Canterbury, and known as the Lake Ellesmere Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

    SCHEDULE.

    All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 20 acres, more or less, being Section No. 3048 in red, Block XII., Leeston Survey District. Bounded on the north by a road-line, 1170·5 links; on the east by Section No. 19, Block X., Reserve 959, 2088·5 links; on the south by Section No. 18 of the said block, 728·3 links; on the west by a road-line along the Selwyn River, 2143·2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

    ALEX. WILLIS,
    Clerk of the Executive Council.

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    Vesting a Reserve in the Horowhenua County Council.

    GLASGOW, Governor.

    ORDER IN COUNCIL.

    At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1896.

    Present:

    HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

    WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto has been permanently set apart as a gravel reserve: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient that the said land should be vested in the Horowhenua County Council:

    Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting 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 declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in “The Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Horowhenua County,” in trust, for a gravel reserve.

    SCHEDULE.

    All that parcel of land in the Land District of Wellington, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 3 roods 30 perches, more or less, being Suburban Section No. 32, Township of Levin. Bounded on the north-east by Section No. 30; on the south-east by a public road; on the south-west by Makomako Road; and on the north-west by Section No. 31: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

    ALEX. WILLIS,
    Clerk of the Executive Council.

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    Rules under “The Supreme Court Act, 1882.”

    GLASGOW, Governor.

    ORDER IN COUNCIL.

    At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1896.

    Present:

    HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

    IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by the thirty-first section of “The Supreme Court Act, 1882,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and with the concurrence of His Honour Sir James Prendergast, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of New Zealand, and His Honour Sir Patrick Buckley, a Judge of the said Court, doth hereby make the following rules, and doth declare that such rules shall take effect on and after the first day of April next.

    PAYMENT INTO COURT.

    221A. A defendant may pay money into Court under Rule No. 212, and file a statement of defence in respect of the cause of action in satisfaction of which such payment into Court is made.

    221C. Where a defendant has paid money into Court, and filed a statement of defence, the following rules shall apply:—

    (a.) The plaintiff may accept the money paid into Court in satisfaction of his claim, notwithstanding the defendant’s denial of his liability, and the provisions of Rule 219 as to costs shall apply.
    
    (b.) If the plaintiff does not accept, in satisfaction of the cause of action in respect of which the payment into Court has been made, the sum so paid in, but proceeds with the action in respect of such cause of action or any part thereof, the money shall remain in Court and be subject to the order of the Court, and shall not be paid out of Court except in pursuance of an order. If the plaintiff