Board that the sale of such land would be injurious to the public interests. It shall also be lawful for the said Waste Land Board, with the like consent, to receive and grant applications from any person for the purchase of Timbered Land situate within any of the before-mentioned districts, in such quantities, not less than one acre in each allotment, as the said Board shall see fit; and at the same price per acre as is hereinbefore fixed for the sale of other land within the district in which such timbered land shall be situate.

VII.

NEW ZEALAND LAND CLAIMANTS.

41. Holders of Land Orders issued by the New Zealand Company, in virtue of which no selection has been made, shall be entitled at any time previously to the 1st day of January 1858, to select according to their respective orders of choice the quantity of land specified in any such land order, within any district in which, by virtue of such land order, the holder thereof would now be entitled to select land.

42. Such of the said land orders, in virtue of which no selection shall have been made previous to the 1st January 1858, shall on and after that day become and be void, and all claims to select land thereunder shall be extinguished.

VIII.

IMMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM, &c.

43. As it is expedient that persons immigrating from the United Kingdom or elsewhere, to settle in the Province of Otago, should be entitled to acquire property in land free of cost, in proportion to their actual outlay on immigration, every such person who shall, out of the colony of New Zealand purchase a land order for the selection of special occupation land, and pay a deposit thereon, as hereinbefore provided, shall be entitled to nominate any number of persons, himself included (the amount of whose passage money shall not, according to the scale herein contained, exceed the purchase money of the land selected,) as intending to immigrate to the Province of Otago, and bona fide settle there; and the agent of the Waste Land Board shall thereupon grant a nomination certificate, stating the names, ages, and occupation or trade, if any, of the persons so nominated—a description of the land order in respect of which such nomination certificate is claimed—and that the person to whom such certificate is granted has produced to the said agent satisfactory proof of good character, and claims to acquire land free of cost in respect of said certificate.

44. Every nomination certificate shall be presented to the Waste Land Board in Dunedin, or to their agent elsewhere in the Province; before whom shall appear personally such of the persons named therein as shall have arrived; and the Waste Land Board, or their agent, on being satisfied as to the good character of such persons, and of their bona fide intention to settle in the Province of Otago, shall, in exchange for such nomination certificate, grant a money certificate in respect only of such persons who shall have actually arrived, or who shall have embarked but died on the passage, stating the amount for which such money certificates will be received in payment of the purchase-money of the land, which shall be selected under the land order in respect of which such nomination certificate shall have been granted.

45. In making up the total sum for which any money certificate shall be granted, the amount to be allowed shall be:—

For every Cabin passenger, one-half the sum which he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Land Board that he has actually expended in the payment of passage money for himself and family, not exceeding in the whole the price of 500 acres of special occupation land.

For Intermediate and Steerage passengers as follows:—

If from Europe. If from any of the Australian colonies

For every person 14 years of age and upwards. £20 £8

For every child between 7 and 14 years of age .... £2 5

For every child above 1 year, and not exceeding 7 years of age .... 8 3

46. Every such money certificate shall at any time be received instead of money for the amount therein named, in payment or part payment, as the case may be, of the purchase-money of land purchased under the land order in respect of which the said money certificate shall have been granted.

47. It shall be lawful for any person having made such selection as aforesaid, to pay the whole of the purchase-money at any time, or such portion thereof as may be paid by a money certificate under these regulations, and all rent shall, from the date of such payment, cease to be payable, or a deduction therefrom shall be made in proportion to the amount of money paid on account of such money certificate, as the case may be: Provided nevertheless, that no grant shall be made till after a bona fide occupation as herein provided.

IX.

IMMIGRATION FROM INDIA.

48. As the appointment of agents in India cannot at present be conveniently made, and it is desirable to encourage emigration therefrom, every person arriving from India for the purpose of settling in the Province of Otago, and desirous of selecting land, shall be entitled to acquire property free of cost, in proportion to his actual outlay on emigration, upon the following terms, namely:—

49. Every such person shall, within six days after his arrival, personally attend at the office of the Waste Land Board in Dunedin, and state his claim to acquire land under these Regulations.

50. The Waste Land Board shall appoint a day for investigating such claim, when, if it shall appear to them that such person left India with a bona fide intention, or who has a bona fide intention, of becoming a settler in the Province of Otago, they shall grant him a money certificate, amounting in value to two-thirds of the sum which he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Land Board, that he has actually expended in the payment of passage money for himself, his family, and servants to New Zealand, not exceeding in the whole the price of 500 acres of special occupation land.

51. Such money certificate shall be received for the amount therein named, in payment of any special occupation land which he may select from such as may have been declared, as hereinbefore provided, to be open for sale in New Zealand.