(c). That it shall be a condition of every such free grant that such public roads as may be deemed necessary may be taken through the land comprised therein, free of all compensation, costs, charges, and expenses whatever. Provided that such right is exercised within five years of the date of the certificate of occupation of such land.

(d). The right of taking a public road may be exercised by laying down and delineating the course of such road, and the width thereof, upon any public map kept in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Otago.

(e). Whenever any public road shall have been laid down and delineated upon any public map kept in the office of the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Otago, within the said period of five years, and notice of the laying down of such road shall have been given to the grantee, his heirs, or assigns, all the right, title, and interest of the grantee, his heirs or assigns, in that portion of the land comprised in the grant through or over which the said road shall be so laid down, shall cease and determine in the same manner, and to the same extent, as if the portion of the said land comprised in the said road had been conveyed by the grantee, his heirs or assigns, to the Superintendent of Otago, in trust for a public road for the use of the inhabitants of the said Province.

4. An applicant with a family of not less than 4 children under 15 years of age shall be entitled to a free grant of two allotments, but no other applicant shall be entitled to, or shall receive, a free grant for more than one such allotment.

Mode of Selection.

Every applicant for any such allotment shall register his name in a book to be kept at the Martin’s Bay District Land Office, and shall thereupon be entitled to receive from the Officer in charge a certificate of occupation of the lot or lots selected by him.

So soon as the person to whom such certificate shall have been issued, shall prove to the satisfaction of the Superintendent that he has resided upon his allotment for the space of two years, out of a period of three years from the date of such certificate, he shall be entitled to receive a Crown Grant of such allotment, free of cost: Provided that such Grant shall be applied for within three years of the date of the certificate of occupation.

If the person to whom any certificate of occupation for any such allotment, being a married man, shall die prior to the issue to him of the Crown Grant for such allotment, his widow shall be entitled to have the certificate of occupation for such allotment, transferred into her own name, on presentation of such certificate at the District Land Office, and to receive a Crown Grant of such allotment to herself, after she has resided thereon for a period of two years out of a period of three years from the date of the certificate; and the period during which her husband shall have resided upon the said allotment before his death, shall be computed as residence by his widow.

Town and Suburban Allotments.

1. A town shall be laid out in the said settlement, and suburban allotments shall be laid out contiguous thereto.

2. The Town Lands shall be divided into quarter-acre allotments as nearly as may be.

3. All Town Lands shall (except as next hereinafter provided) be sold by public auction at an upset price of five pounds each.

4. Each holder of a certificate of occupation for an allotment under Class A shall be entitled to select one town allotment and to purchase the same at a fixed price of two pounds ten shillings, provided that the right of selection is exercised within twelve months from the date of the issue of the certificate of occupation.

Suburban Land.

1. Suburban allotments of five acres in extent shall be laid off contiguous to the said town.

2. Every such allotment for the time being remaining unsold shall twice at the least in every year be offered for sale by auction, at an upset price of one pound per acre, and sold to the highest bidder.

3. No suburban allotment shall be sold otherwise than by auction.

CLASS B.

1. Class B shall comprise 30,000 acres; and lands in this class to the extent of, not exceeding, 100 acres to each person, shall be sold at five shillings an acre to the first applicant.

2. The Government shall have the right to take public roads, as specified under Class A; such right to be exercised in the same manner and within the same period, and with the same consequences to the grantee his heirs and assigns, in the event of the exercise of such right, and notice to him or them as specified in the regulations under said Class A.

3. If the same piece of land shall be applied for by more than one person, upon the same day, the land so applied for shall be put up to auction at an upset price of five shillings an acre, and shall be sold to the highest bidder.

4. Any person who shall have purchased and paid for 100 acres of land in Class B, and who shall be desirous of purchasing a further quantity, shall be permitted to do so at the rate of ten shillings per acre.

CLASS C.

1. Class C shall comprise 60,000 acres, and shall be sold, as the Waste Land Board shall determine, either at public auction at an upset price of five shillings an acre, or to the first applicant at a fixed price of ten shillings an acre: Provided always that not more than 500 acres shall be sold to any one person, and that in the event of there being more than one applicant for the same land on the same day, then and in that case the land so applied for shall be put up to auction at an upset price of ten shillings an acre, and sold to the highest bidder.

2. All land sold under this class shall be subject to the same conditions with respect to the right to take public roads, and the manner and time of exercising such right, and the consequences to the grantee, his heirs and assigns, in the event of the exercise thereof and notice to him or them as hereinbefore are provided in the regulations respecting Class A.

CLASS D.

1. Class D shall comprise all Mineral Lands, and shall be sold or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the provisions contained in Sections 52 to 62, inclusive, of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866.”

In all cases of the sale or other disposal of land in any of the said classes under these Regulations, the provisions of the “Otago Waste Lands Act 1866” shall, subject to these Regulations and to the provisions of the “Otago Settlement Act 1869,” be applied as far as circumstances will admit of.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has made the following appointments, viz.:

Sergeant THOMAS NEIL,

to be Inspector of Slaughter-yards for Clyde District,

vice Sergeant Andrew Thompson, transferred;

Constable EDMUND WALSH,

to be Inspector of Slaughter-yards, Blueskin District,

vice Constable Joseph Cutcliffe, transferred;

Constable JOSEPH CUTCLIFFE,