TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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ACCOUNTS OF NATIVE RESERVES—(Continued).

CASH IN COMMISSIONER’S DEPOSIT ACCOUNT :

1870. £ s. d.
      December 31.—Cash due to owner of No. 5 Reserve ... 6 16 0
      December 31.—Cash to owner of No. 20 Reserve ... 5 15 6
      December 31.—Cash due to owner of Reserve H ... 1 0 0
      December 31.—Rent received for Hospital ground ... 2 10 0
      December 31.—Balance of cash account ... 1 2 5

£17 3 11

R. PARRIS,
Commissioner for Native Reserves.

New Plymouth, February 8, 1871.

Examined and found correct,
EDWARD HILL,
Examiner appointed under "New Zealand Native Reserves Act, 1856."

Wellington, February 25, 1871.

[From the New Zealand Gazette.]

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day of February, 1871.

Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act 1865," it is enacted that the order and manner in which land taken under the authority of "The New Zealand Settlement Act, 1863," and "The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act 1865," should be laid out for sale and sold should be at the discretion of the Governor, who shall have power to cause such land or any part thereof to be laid out for sale and sold from time to time, in such manner, for such consideration, and in such allotments as he shall think fit, and subject to such regulations as he shall, with the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time prescribe : And whereas by "The New Zealand Settlements Amendment Act 1866," it is provided that the said lands shall be sold for such consideration or at such price, and whether for cash or otherwise, as the Governor shall from time to time prescribe, and that all lands taken under authority of the said "New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and "The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865," or either of them, and sold or disposed of under the authority of the said first recited Act, shall be sold or disposed of under Regulations to be made by the Governor in Council, which Regulations shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette : And whereas the House of Representatives, on the fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, resolved that the recommendation of the Select Committee appointed to consider the petition of Major Brown, namely, "That local rank at least as a Field Officer ought to have been given to Major Brown when he was in command of the same number of Militia at Taranaki as the Field Officer who preceded him, and that he is therefore entitled to the difference in pay and allowance between what he received and what he would have been entitled to as Major in Command, he submitted to the favourable consideration of the Government, on the understanding that the Government may, if they think fit, award such difference not in money but in land :" And whereas a Board having been constituted in that behalf of the Government, has ascertained that the pay and allowances recommended in the said recited resolution amount to the sum of three hundred and ten pounds four shillings and fivepence (£310 4s. 5d.) : And whereas it is expedient that a regulation be made under the Act aforesaid, enabling the Governor to give effect to the hereinbefore in part recited resolution of the House of Representatives :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him in that behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony make the following Regulation for the sale and disposal of land taken under the