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with the approval of the Provincial Council, to authorise any person or persons of European Race resident amongst Natives in or near the ceded district, and active in procuring the cession thereof, to select for his or their own use Rural Land within the district, not exceeding altogether 400 acres, either gratuitously, or on such terms as to the Superintendent shall seem fit.

VI. SELECTIONS FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.

28. Ministers or Trustees of Religious Bodies shall be at liberty to apply to the Superintendent for permission to purchase Rural lands not exceeding in any one district 10 acres, and also a single section in every Town site, as sites for Churches, Chapels, Schools, or other Buildings, or for Burial Grounds for the use of their several denominations, and any such application being recommended by the Superintendent, and of approved by the Provincial Council, the applicants, or other persons on behalf of the Religious body, shall be admitted to purchase the land at the rate of 10s. per acre, before the District is opened for public selection.

VII. NEW ZEALAND COMPANY'S LAND CLAIMANTS.

29. Holders of unsatisfied Land Orders of the New Zealand Company and Plymouth Company of New Zealand, and of unselected scrip issued under the agreement made by the New Zealand Company with the Resident Purchasers in the year 1849, shall be entitled at any time previously to the 1st day of January 1857, to select according to their respective order of choice, in any Rural Land, after Public Reserves are laid out and applications on behalf of Religious bodies entertained, and before such land is declared open for sale under these Regulations.

30. Such of the said Land Orders and Scrip as may remain outstanding on the said day, shall, on and after that day, and all other claims on the Waste Lands of the Crown in respect of unfulfilled contracts or engagements of the New Zealand Company, shall, on and after the issue of these Regulations, become and be unavailable and extinguished, unless the same shall be exchangeable and exchanged for Government scrip under the provisions of the New Zealand Company's Land Claimants' Ordinance, number 15, of Session XI.

VIII. SCRIP.

31. Government Scrip shall be taken in payment for Town land at the nominal value of such scrip in pounds sterling.

32. In the purchase of Rural land one pound in scrip shall represent the selling price of one acre where such selling price does not exceed twenty shillings, and in other cases shall represent its nominal value of one pound.

33. Scrip issued under the present regulations as and complaint of lands taken by the Superintendent for roads, shall be entitled "Road Compensation Scrip," and shall be available only within the Province.

IX. SALES.

34. The Superintendent, with the approval of the Provincial Council, shall notify in the Government Gazette of the Province the day on which Rural Land and Town Land respectively shall be first open for purchase—such day being never less than one calendar month after the publication of the Notice—and being always as respects Rural land, one of the Sale Days for Rural Land hereinafter appointed, and as respects Town Land the third Monday in a month. And to every such notice respecting Rural Land there shall be appended a Tabular Statement shewing the distinguishing number or mark of each section and its area.

35. No further sale of lands in any district already declared open for purchase shall take place until the same shall have been surveyed and declared open for purchase conformably with these regulations.

36. Rural Land and Town Land shall be sold by Public Auction in manner hereinafter prescribed and not otherwise.

37. All sales shall take place at the Crown Lands Office in the Town of New Plymouth and shall commence at the hour of Eleven, A. M., and close not later than the hour of Three, P. M. The Superintendent may from time to time by notice in the said Gazette appoint any other place or hour of sale; but no such Notice shall take effect until the expiration of one calendar month from its publication.

38. The Sub-Treasurer of the General Government or his deputy for the purpose approved of by the Superintendent, or some other person appointed for the purpose by the Governor, shall conduct the sales.

39. There shall be a periodical sale of Rural Land on the first Monday in every month.

40. The Biddings at sales of Rural Land shall be of a certain sum per acre for a section to be immediately afterwards chosen by the Bidder in any district duly declared as open for purchase—(all such districts within the Province, or the unsold portions thereof, being at every sale open for selection)—and the highest bidder for each successive choice shall accordingly forth with select a section on the Map or Plan, and declare his choice to the officer conducting the sale, and shall become the Purchaser of the same section at such sum per acre as he shall have last bidden. The said officer shall after each selection proceed to invite another set of biddings, and shall so continue the sale on the same, and if requisite, on the following day or days, so long as there shall be any Bidder for a selection at the upset price.

41. The upset price for Rural Land shall be Ten Shillings per acre.

42. Town Land shall be sold only on such days as the Superintendent shall appoint by Notice published in the said Gazette. Provided that the day so appointed be always the third Monday in the month, and not less than one calendar month after the publication of the notice.

43. The sale of Town Land shall be conducted in all respects similarly to the sale of Rural Land, save that the Superintendent shall by every notice of sale limit the number of selections to be made at such sale, and shall in like manner prescribe some particular Town site or Town sites in which the selections, or any number thereof, are to be made; and the biddings shall be of a certain sum per section.

44. The upset price or Prices for Town Land shall be such sum per section as shall for each particular sale and Town site be appointed by the Superintendent, and shall be specified in the notice of sale, and a scale of upset prices may be appointed according to the order of selection.

45. It shall be a condition of every sale that one tenth of the purchase money be immediately paid in cash to the officer conducting the sale, and that the remainder be paid to the proper officer within one calendar month. If default be made in either payment the sale shall be void. If default be made in the payment the instalment of one tenth shall be forfeited.

46. The officer conducting the sale, whether of Rural or Town Land, shall certify to the Superintendent, and also to the Commissioner of Crown Lands the distinguishing numbers or marks of the sections sold, and it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner from time to time to cause the sections sold to be distinctly marked as sold, or to be otherwise clearly distinguished in the proper Map or Plan.

X. ALLOWANCES TO IMMIGRANTS.

47. Intermediate or Steerage Passengers of the classes hereinafter defined, arriving in the Province