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for the purpose of the said undertaking. A plan and section of the said undertaking, with a book of reference thereto, will be deposited in the Superintendent’s Office, Taranaki, one month before the commencement of the ensuing Session, on which plans your property is designated by the numbers set forth in the annexed Schedule.

You are requested to state whether you assent or dissent from the proposed undertaking, or are neuter in respect thereto, by filling up the form sent herewith and returning the same to the Superintendent at his office at New Plymouth on or before the day of next; and if there should be any error or misdescription in the annexed Schedule, at the same time to inform the Superintendent of the same.

SCHEDULE.

Approved in Council, 7th March, 1871.

James B. Lawson,
Clerk, Provincial Council.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eleventh day of May, 1871.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,” it is provided that after the setting apart sufficient land for all persons who shall be entitled thereto under the contracts therein referred to, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to cause towns to be surveyed and laid out, and also suburban and rural allotments; and that all such town, suburban, and rural lands shall be sold, occupied, and disposed of for such prices, in such manner, and for such purposes, upon such terms and subject to such regulations, as the Governor in Council shall from time to time prescribe;

And 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 said Acts shall 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, 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 the 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, with regulations shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor, did, on the thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, make regulations for the sale and disposal of lands in the West Coast District taken under the said Acts:

And whereas it is expedient that the land described in the Schedule hereto should be sold to the Opunake Flax Company, Limited, at and for the price of three pounds per acre:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order that the land described in the Schedule hereto, shall be sold to the Opunake Flax Company, Limited, at and for the price or sum of three pounds per acre, and that John Stephenson Smith, Esq., Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Province of Taranaki, shall and may conduct the said sale.

SCHEDULE.

PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.

Opunake.

All those parcels of land situated on the Otahi River, containing ten (10) acres and three (3) roods, more or less, being the