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II.—SURVEYS AND RESERVES.

4—The Surveyor-General, or other proper Officer, shall, with all convenient speed, make a general survey of any district in which the Native title shall be extinguished, after the issue of these regulations, and also of the unsold portions of the districts in which such title has already been extinguished, and shall prepare maps thereof exhibiting, so far as practicable, their character and natural features, and shall transmit the same to the Superintendent, accompanied by reports containing any information obtained by the Surveyor which cannot be conveyed by a map.

5—If it shall not be possible to survey the whole of any tract of land without great delay or undue expense, the Superintendent, with the approval of the Provincial Council, may direct that portions thereof, to be defined by him, shall be successively surveyed and declared open for purchase.

6—The Governor will in the first place appoint such reserves for Military purposes and for civil purposes of the General Government as he shall think expedient.

7—Other public reserves and also sites for towns will be appointed by the Governor, being first recommended by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council.

8—The Superintendent, with the approval of the Provincial Council, shall from time to time determine upon the division of the Rural land into sections, where the intended mode of sale shall render such division requisite. Town Land shall in all cases be divided into sections, which shall be determined upon by the Superintendent and Provincial Council.

9—Reserves, lines of road, and sections, shall be laid down on the proper maps, each section in a district having a distinguishing number or mark. A separate plan shall be made of each town site.

10—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.

11—The subdivision 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.

12—Roads and streets shall not be less than one chain in width, except where local circumstances shall render an adherence to this rule impracticable.

13—In laying out rural sections the following rules shall be adhered to as nearly as possible:—

1. Every section shall front on a road.
2. Road and water frontage and natural advantages shall be equally distributed.
3. Road frontage shall not exceed two-thirds of the depth of the section.
4. Natural boundaries shall be availed of.
5. Acute angles in the boundary line shall be avoided.

14—No rural section shall exceed in area 240 acres, and at least one-half of the total area of any rural land which shall be divided into sections prior to sale shall be laid out in sections not exceeding 100 acres.

15—No town section shall exceed in area one quarter of an acre.

16—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 deposited 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 at 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 subdivision into sections of any rural land 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.

17—In every district declared open for purchase under these regulations, one-twentieth part of the total area of the district, and also a belt of land surrounding each town site, equal in area to such town site, shall be reserved as an endowment for public schools for general education.

18—All unalienated lands within the town site of New Plymouth, together with the unalienated portions of Victoria Park, Somes Park, the Botanic Garden, and the Town Belt; but exclusive of roads, streets, and squares, will also be reserved as an endowment for public schools for general education, and will be vested in the Superintendent under the provisions of "The Public Reserves Act, 1854." Provided that before the issue of a Crown Grant thereof under the said Act it shall be lawful for the Governor to make any reserves deemed necessary for Military purposes out of the same lands.

19—The roads and reserves for roads throughout the Settlement (including streets and squares in the Town of New Plymouth) will be vested in the Superintendent, under the provisions of the aforesaid Act, as public thoroughfares.

III.—SELECTIONS FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.

20—Ministers or Trustees of Religious Bodies shall be at liberty to apply to the Superintendent for permission to purchase rural land, not exceeding in any one district ten acres for Burial Grounds, and as sites for Churches, Chapels, or Schools, and also not exceeding one acre in every town site, as sites for Churches, Chapels, Schools, or other Buildings, devoted to religious or educational purposes; and any such application being recommended by the Superintendent, and approved of by the Provincial Council, the applicants or other persons on behalf of the Religious body shall be admitted to purchase the land at such rate as shall be fixed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council, not being less than ten shillings per acre for rural land, and twenty pounds per acre for town land, before the district is open for public selection.

IV.—SCRIP.

21—Government Scrip shall be taken in payment for town land at the nominal value of such Scrip in pounds sterling.

22—In the purchase of rural Land one pound in Government 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.

V.—SALES.

23—The Superintendent, with the approval of the Provincial Council, shall notify in the Government Gazette of the Province, the day on which Rural 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 fifteenth day of the month, unless the same fall on a Sunday or Good Friday, in which case the following day may be appointed. And to every such notice respecting Rural Land, which shall be divided into sections, there shall be appended a tabular statement shewing the distinguishing number or mark of each section and its area.

24—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.

25—Rural Land and Town Land shall be sold