sold and disposed of under the authority of
tho said first recited Act, intituled "The
New Zealand Settlements Acts Amend-
ment Act, 1866," shall bo sold or disposed
of under regulations to be made by the
Governor in Council, which regulations
shall be published in the New Zealand
Gazette.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, in pursuance of the authority
vested in him in that behalf, by the said
first recited Act, doth hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Coun-
cil of the Colony of New Zealand, make
the following regulations for the sale and
disposal of lands within the Ngatiawa,
Middle Taranaki, or Ngatiruanui Districts,
which have been taken under the authority
of the said recited Acts, or either of them:

Regulations for the sale and disposal of Lands

taken for settlement under "The New Zea-
land Settlements Act, 1863."

1. Until sold, granted, reserved, or
   otherwise disposed of by the Government,
   the portions of Confiscated Lands which
   have been or may hereafter be laid out for
   sale in the Ngatiawa, Middle Taranaki, or
   Ngatiruanui Districts, may be occupied by
   settlers, on obtaining a license from the
   Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Pro-
   vince in which such lands are situate,
   upon approval in each case of the Honorable
   Colonial Secretary.

2. Such license shall not in any case be
   for more than one hundred acres, and shall
   give no right to the soil, or to the timber
   upon it, nor shall it prevent a right-of-way
   being laid out across such land, where it
   may be decided to be necessary by the
   Commissioner of Crown Lands, acting
   under the authority of the Honorable
   Colonial Secretary; and every license
   shall immediately determine over any
   land which may be sold, granted, reserved,
   or otherwise disposed of by the Govern-
   ment.

3. When any lands so occupied shall
   have been built upon or fenced, or other-
   wise improved, the value of such improve-
   ments, to be assessed by a valuer appointed
   by the Government, shall be added to the
   uprset price of the land before sale by the
   Government, and shall be paid over to the
   occupier immediately after the sale, and
   the occupier shall thereupon give up all
   improvements to the purchaser; or if the
   occupier be the purchaser, the value shall
   be deducted from the total sum payable
   by him to the Government.

4. In the case of land so occupied which
   may be required and taken by the Govern-
   ment for public purposes, the occupier
   shall have the right of removing any
   buildings, or other improvements, within
   one month of the time when notice shall
   have been given to do so.

5. Every application for a license must
   specify the boundaries of the land to be
   occupied in such manner that its position
   can be clearly identified, and it shall be at
   the discretion of the Commissioner of
   Crown Lands, subject to the approval of
   the Honorable Colonial Secretary, to grant
   the license or not, or with such conditions
   as the circumstances may seem to warrant.

6. No license shall be transferable, and
   non-occupation shall render the licensee
   liable to the forfeiture of the license and
   all improvements on the land. The Govern-
   ment to be the sole judge of the ques-
   tion of occupation, and they may re-enter
   and resume possession at any time without
   any claim for compensation, in case the
   conditions of occupation shall not in their
   opinion have been complied with.

7. There shall be paid to the Commis-
   sioner on every such license a fee of ten
   shillings, and such annual rent as may be
   determined by him with the authority
   aforesaid, not exceeding twenty shillings
   nor less than two shillings per acre.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington,
the fifth day of April, 1867.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Native Reserves Amendment Act,
1862," it is amongst other things provided
that where under the provisions of "The
Native Reserves Act, 1856," the assent of
the aboriginal inhabitants is required to
bringing land under the operation of the
said "Native Reserves Act, 1856," the
Governor may by Order in Council declare
such assent to have been ascertained, and
thereupon the title of the aboriginal in-
habitants in the land to which the same
shall relate shall be deemed to be extin-
guished, and the land shall from the date
of such Order in Council vest in Her Ma-
jesty for the purposes and subject to the
provisions of the said "Native Reserves
Act, 1856," as altered by the recited Act,
and that as effectually as if the same had
been ceded and conveyed by such abori-
ginal inhabitants to Her Majesty:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council, doth hereby de-
clare that the assent of the aboriginal in-
habitants to the bringing the pieces of