after the 31st day of December 1854, from Europe, North America, Australia, or Van Diemen’s Land shall be allowed to select and purchase lands, at half the selling price, to an amount not exceeding the amount herein-after specified.

48. The classes entitled to allowance under the preceding clause, and the amount to which Lands shall be purchasable by them at Half price as aforesaid shall be respectively as follows—

Note.—The age and description are in every case referable to the time of arrival.

Provided that Immigrants from Australia or Van Diemen’s Land shall be entitled to purchase one half the above amount and no more.

49. No claim for allowance under clause 47 shall be admitted until the Claimant, with his wife, or the claimant being female, the claimant herself, shall have resided 12 calendar months in the Province, nor shall any money previously expended in the purchase of land be returned.

50. Allowances under clause 47 shall not be made to any person whose passage money, or the passage monies of whose wife or children, shall have been paid by the Provincial Government, unless and until such passage money be repaid.

51. Persons at any time convicted of any Felony or infamous offence, within any part of Her Majesty’s Dominions, shall be disqualified to claim allowance.

52. Intending claimants for allowances under clause 47, must present themselves within three months from arrival to the Immigration Officer, who shall then make a preliminary examination of their claims and after fulfilling the condition as to residence (and where necessary the condition as to repayment of passage money to Government) they shall again, after the expiration of one year, and before the expiration of two years from arrival, present themselves to the said officer, who, on being satisfied of the validity of any claim, shall, with the approval of the Superintendent, issue to the claimant his certificate, to the effect that the claimant is entitled to purchase lands to a specified amount, according to the scale, at half price.

53. Half-Price certificates shall be available for five years from issue, and shall not be transferable; but on the death of the original holder shall devolve on his nominee, appointed by any writing under his hand, or in default of such appointment, on his personal representative.

54. Provided that such certificates may be issued to any person who shall have paid the passage money of any Immigrant becoming qualified for allowance under the preceding clauses, and the same shall in every such case be issued in the name of and be available to the said Immigrant or his assigns as the consideration or a part of the consideration for such payment have been made by the said Immigrant to be substituted in his or her place with respect to such allowance. The Immigration Officer may, at his discretion, in every such case satisfy himself of the right of the Claimant without the attendance of the Immigrant, so that notice of the intended claim be given to him within three calendar months from the arrival of the Immigrant, and the claim be finally preferred within two years from such arrival.

55. Half-price certificates being produced to the Sub-Treasurer, or other proper officer, and such officer being satisfied of the personal identity of the Holder, he or she shall at any time or times within the period above limited, be entitled to a remission of purchase money to the extent therein certified for—it being understood, that where land exceeding the value specified as purchasable at half price shall be selected by a certificate holder, he or she shall have an allowance on the purchase money equivalent to the extreme amount of his or her due allowance.

56. If required, every person claiming allowances under clause 47, shall make and subscribe a declaration that he or she has not obtained any remission or allowance under Land Regulations in any other part of the Colony.

XI. MILITARY SETTLERS:

57. Military and Naval Officers resident in the Provinces at the issue of these Regulations will be allowed the privileges accorded to them by the Regulations of May 1851. But the remission money given to them in the terms of those Regulations will be subject to the rates hereinafter prescribed relative to Government Scrip.

58. Non-commissioned and Warrant Officers in Her Majesty’s Army and Navy, and also Soldiers, Marines, and Sailors discharged from Her Majesty’s service with good conduct certificates, whether discharged in the colony or elsewhere, and arriving in the Province after the 31st day of December 1854, shall, being qualified by marriage and residence in the Province with their wives, after discharge, be entitled to the like allowance under clause 47 as Steerage passengers arriving from Europe, or North America.

XII. MINERAL LAND.

59. It shall be competent to the Superintendent, with the approval of the Provincial Council, to reserve for the purpose of letting the same, any Tract or section known or supposed to have especial value as containing minerals.

60. Leases of Mineral Land shall be made to such persons, for such Terms of years, under and subject to such Rents, Royalties, Reservations, and Covenants, and generally in such manner as having been prepared by the Superintendent, and approved of by the Provincial Council, shall be finally approved of by the Governor, and not otherwise. This provision is without prejudice to the fulfilment of any existing engagement entered into by the Crown.

XIII. TEMPORARY OCCUPATION OF CROWN LANDS.

61. The occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown for the purposes of depasturing Cattle and cutting Timber is regulated by the provisions in that behalf of the Crown Lands Ordinance, No. 1 of Session II. of the New Zealand Legislative Council, and by certain Rules and Regulations for the issue of Pasture and Timber Licenses for the occupation of Waste Lands within the Province, published in the New Zealand Government Gazette, 62. Within the Province of New Plymouth, the said provisions of the said two Ordinances have not, nor have the said Rules and Regulations, been ever acted upon.

62. Such of the provisions of the first named Ordinance as authorize and regulate the depasturing of cattle on the Waste Lands of the Crown, with all incident provisions, and also all and singular the provisions of the other of the said two Ordinances and also the said Rules and Regulations, are hereby repealed.

63. The future Letting and Occupation for temporary purposes of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province (except so far as the same are provided for by the present Regulations) will be provided for by Regulations to be hereafter issued in conformity with the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly intituled “The Waste Lands Act 1854.”

XIV. FEES ON CROWN GRANTS.

65. By Ordinance No. 2, of Session VII., the sum of twenty shillings is payable before the delivery of every Crown Grant to the person entitled to receive the same. No other fee is payable on the issue of Crown Grants.

XV. COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATION.

66. These regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of March 1854.