Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1863 – No. 17

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✨ Land Grants and Settler Conditions



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  1. Priority of choice will be determined by lot.

No man above the age of 45 years will be accepted, and every applicant will be subject to an examination by an officer appointed by the Governor, and must produce such certificates of good health, character, and general fitness for the service, as such officer shall require.

  1. Each accepted applicant will be provided, at the expense of the Government, with a steerage passage to New Plymouth. Before embarkation, he will be required to sign a declaration and agreement to the effect that he understands and will be bound by and fulfil these conditions.

  2. On arrival at New Plymouth, he will be enrolled and required to serve in the Taranaki Militia. He will be entitled to pay and rations accordingly until he is authorised by the Government to take possession of his land, when he will be relieved of "actual service."

  3. After taking possession he will be entitled to receive rations, free of cost for twelve months, upon the same scale as supplied to Her Majesty's troops; he will be allowed to retain possession, as a militiaman, of his arms and accoutrements, and he will be supplied with ammunition for use according to militia regulations.

  4. No settler after taking possession will be permitted during the first three years after his arrival at New Plymouth to absent himself from his settlement for more than one calendar month in any one year without the leave of the Governor first obtained.

  5. During such three years he will be liable to be trained and exercised as other militiamen; and whenever a portion only of the Taranaki Militia shall be called out for actual service, each settler will be deemed to be a volunteer militiaman, and will be required to serve as such. During such service he will be entitled to the same pay, rations and allowance as other militiamen.

  6. On the expiration of three years from the day of his arrival at New Plymouth each settler, having fulfilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant of the Town allotment and farm section allotted to him; and will thenceforth be subject only to the same Militia services as other colonists.

  7. Any settler desiring to leave his settlement will be permitted to do so on providing a substitute approved of by the Government. Such substitute will be subject to the same liabilities and entitled to the same privileges as the settler whose place he takes.

  8. In case of the death of any settler before he shall become entitled to his Crown Grant, the land allotted to him will be at the disposal of the Government for the location of another settler under these conditions or for any other purpose, but the value of any improvements made thereon by the deceased settler will be determined by valuation, and the amount paid by the Government to such person (if any) as the deceased settler shall have appointed by writing to receive the same.

Form of Declaration and Agreement.

I do hereby declare that I fully understand the "conditions" hereunto annexed, and I do engage and agree to be bound thereby, and punctually on my part to fulfil all the terms thereof.




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🗺️ Publication of conditions for land grants between Omata and Tataraimaka (continued from previous page)

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
6 July 1863
Land Grants, Settlers, Omata, Tataraimaka, Taranaki