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said maps, distinguishing each section in a district by a number or mark.

9. A separate Plan shall be made of the site of every Town or Village (hereinafter indifferently designated Towns) and such sites shall be divided into sections, distinguished by numbers or marks, and streets and public places shall be laid out by the Surveyor with the approval of the Superintendent.

10. Reserves for Public purposes, and sites for Towns, as proposed by the Superintendent, and also the laying out of roads and streets, and the division into sections both of the Rural Land and Town sites shall be subject to the approval of the Provincial Council, and finally to confirmation and allowance by the Governor, for which purposes the Map of every district, with the Surveyor's report thereon, and the plan of every proposed Town shall be submitted to the said Council, and to the Governor.

11. Further Reserves for Civil or Military purposes may from time to time be made, if deemed requisite, by the like authority, and in like manner as the first Reserves.

12. The sub-division into sections of Rural Land and Town sites, and the laying out of roads and streets, may from time to time be altered by authority of the Superintendent with the approval of the Provincial Council.

13. In laying out Rural sections the following rules shall be adhered to as nearly as may be.

14. Every section shall front on a Road.

15. Road and Water frontage and natural advantages shall be equally distributed.

16. Road frontage shall not exceed two-thirds of the depth of the section.

17. Natural boundaries shall be availed of.

18. Acute angles in the boundary line shall be avoided.

19. No Rural section shall exceed in 250 acres, and at least one half of the total area of any district shall be laid out in sections not exceeding 100 acres.

20. An authentic copy of the map or Plan of every district and Town site, and all reports of the Surveyor respecting the same, shall be recited in the Office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, or with such other Officer as shall be appointed by the Governor for that purpose, not less than one calendar month before such district or Town site, or any part thereof, shall be declared open for purchase; and such Maps, Plans, and Reports shall during the said period of one month, and all times thereafter, during office hours, remain open to Public inspection. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, or other Officer appointed as aforesaid, shall from time to time be informed by the Superintendent of any correction in the said Maps and Plans requisite in consequence of further Reserves, or of alterations in the sub-division into sections of any Rural or Town site, and of all other requisite corrections in the said Maps and Plans, and shall cause such corrections to be made in the copies thereof deposited with him as aforesaid, so as to maintain the exactitude of the said copies.

III. RESERVES.

16. Public Reserves shall be made for the following and for no other purposes :—

17. General Education.

18. Sites for Public Buildings and Works, Markets, Quays, Landing places, and the like.

19. Places for the recreation and amusement of the inhabitants of any Town or Village.

20. Military Defence.

21. The use or benefit of the Aborigines.

22. Any other purpose of public safety, convenience, health, or enjoyment.

23. There shall be reserved in every district declared open for purchase under these Regulations as an endowment for Schools for General Education Five acres in every Hundred of its area. And also for the same purpose there shall be reserved a Belt of Land surrounding each Town site equal in area to such Town site.

24. With respect to the Town site of New Plymouth the unsold sections will be made a Public Domain, and the Garden, or so much of the Public purposes made by the New Zealand Company in and adjoining the said Town which have been alienated in satisfaction of claims on the Company.

25. The reserved sections, the Reserves designated on the Plan of the Town as Victoria Park, Somes Park, and the Botanical Garden, or so much thereof respectively as have not been alienated by the Crown or Company, the unalienated portions of the Town Belt, and the Roads, Streets, and Public Places within the Town site, will be vested in the Superintendent under the provisions of the "Public Reserves Act, 1854."

26. The roads and reserves for roads throughout the Fitzroy and Grey Blocks, will also be vested in the Superintendent under the provisions of the same Act.

IV. ROADS.

21. Main roads and streets shall not be less than one chain in width, Cross roads and streets not less than 70 links in width, except where local circumstances shall render an adherence to this rule impracticable.

22. All sales and alienations whatsoever shall be subject to the reservation of a right to be vested in the Superintendent, exercisable only with the approval of the Provincial Council, to construct roads on the lands sold, and for that purpose to authorise and cause a sufficient quantity of the lands to be taken possession of and made use of, when and as he shall think fit.

23. Persons expropriated under the preceding clause shall be compensated by the issue to them of Land Scrip under the following regulations.

24. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall from time to time issue to the proper persons Land Scrip to such amount as shall be awarded by the Provincial Council on the proposition and with the approval of the Superintendent, in respect of any lands taken for a road—such amount, and the persons to whom it is to be issued being certified to the said Commissioner by the Superintendent. On behalf of persons under disability, and persons interested under settlements, the said Council shall be at liberty to direct that the scrip be laid out by the Commissioner, in the names of Trustees or otherwise, in the purchase of lands in substitution for the lands taken. If from any cause scrip so awarded be not applied for within three years, the right thereto shall lapse.

25. The number of Pounds sterling for which scrip shall be issued under the preceding clause shall be so regulated and restricted from time to time, as never at any time to be greater than one twentieth part of the estimated aggregate number of acres of Rural Land which shall then have been declared open for purchase under these regulations.

26. The foregoing provisions respecting the taking of lands for roads, and respecting compensation for the lands so taken, shall not take away or affect the powers for the like purposes vested in the Governor by virtue of the New Zealand Land Claimants' Ordinance, No. 15, of Session XI.

V. GRANTS TO PERSONS AIDING IN EXTINCTION OF NATIVE TITLE.

27. On the recommendation of any Officer of the General Government employed in negotiating the cession of the rights over any district of the Native Tribes, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent