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Persons desirous of tendering are referred for further information to this office, and to the Notices and Prospectus formerly issued, but the conditions contained therein are not to be considered as binding on those who may now tender.

I. N. WATT,
Provincial Secretary.

N O T I C E.

Superintendent's Office,
New Plymouth, 4th June, 1858.
THE following proposed amended Land Regulations are published for general information in conformity with the provisions of an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the "Waste Lands Act, 1854."

W. HALSE,
Deputy Superintendent.

I. N. WATT,
Provincial Secretary.

PROPOSED amended Regulations for the disposal of Land in the Province of New Plymouth, New Zealand.

1. The 37th, 38th, and 39th clauses of the Land Regulations now in force in the Province are hereby repealed, and the following Additional Regulations shall be in force from and after a day to be appointed by Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor.

Naval and Military Settlers.

2. Every commissioned Officer of Her Majesty's or of the East India Company's army or navy, and every Officer of the Royal Marines, whether on full or half pay, who shall become a settler in the Province, shall in the purchase of land be allowed a remission of the purchase money to the amount of £400—and at the expiration of three years from the date of purchase, the Officer on shewing to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown Lands that he is bonâ fide a resident settler in the Province, and that he has so resided continuously since the purchase, and also that one fourth part of the land so purchased has been cleared and cropped, or laid down in grass, or other artificial pasturage, shall be entitled to a Crown Grant of the same. But if within three years from the date of purchase the above terms shall not have been complied with, the purchase shall be considered to have lapsed and the land will be open to grant or sale.

3. Prior to the purchase by any Officer of Her Majesty's army or navy being made under these Regulations the certificate alluded to in the third clause of the "Information for the use of Military and Naval

Officers proposing to settle in certain of the
British Colonies," issued in July 1853,
must be deposited with the Commissioner
of Crown Lands.

4. Prior to the purchase by any Officer of
   the East India Company's army or navy
   being made under these Regulations a cer-
   tificate from the Secretary or other proper
   Officer of the East India Company
   specifying the dates of his entering
   and leaving the service and also that he
   has been allowed to resign at his own re-
   quest, must be deposited with the Com-
   missioner of Crown Lands, and he will be
   required to make a written declaration that
   no remission of the purchase money has
   been made to him in the purchase of Crown
   Lands within any British colony.

5. Non commissioned Officers and Pri-
   vates of Her Majesty's army, or of the Royal
   Marines, who being or having been on ser-
   vice in the colony, shall obtain their discharge
   or who may have obtained their discharge
   since the 1st January 1857 (such Privates
   being discharged with good conduct certi-
   ficates) and shall become settlers in the
   Province, shall in the purchase of land be
   allowed a remission of the purchase money
   according to the following scale, viz.—

Sergeants ........................ £80
Corporals ........................ 60
Privates ........................ 40

the purchases will, however, be subject to
the like conditions so far as regards resi-
dence of the purchaser, clearing of the land,
and issue of the Crown Grant, as in the
case of purchases made by commissioned
Officers, and prior to the issue of any
Crown Grant for land purchased by any
non commissioned Officer or Private under
these Regulations he shall shew to the sa-
tisfaction of the Commissioner of Crown
Lands that he has not obtained a similar
remission in any other province or district
of New Zealand.

6. The purchasers of Land under these
   Regulations respecting Naval and Military
   settlers will for the purposes of local rates,
   taxes, and impositions in every case be
   deemed to be the owners thereof and as if
   the fee simple of the land vested in them
   from the purchase thereof.

Exchange of Land for Public Purposes.
7. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent
with the consent of the Provincial Council
expressed by a resolution of the same from
time to time to exchange any of the Waste
lands of the Crown for lands the property
of individuals or corporations when it may
be desirable to acquire such lands for roads
streets or other purposes of public utility.

ERRATUM.—In last Gazette, page 57,
11th line, for Katatore read Ihaia.