ADDITIONAL LAND REGULATIONS to be

Proposed for recommendation by the Superin-
tendent and Provincial Council of the Province of
Wellington, Session VI., to the Governor.

1. For the purposes of these Regulations, the
   Province shall be divided into four districts, to be
   called respectively the Ahuriri, Wairarapa, Welling-
   ton, and Wanganui districts; the boundaries of
   which districts respectively are defined in the
   schedule marked A hereunto annexed.

2. There shall be a Land Office in each of the
   said districts.

3. There shall be established a Board for each
   of the said districts to be called the Public Lands
   Board, to consist of one or more Commis-
   sioners not exceeding five for each Board, all of
   whom shall be appointed, and be removable by war-
   rant under the hand of the Superintendent, acting
   by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
   tive Council.

4. There shall be a Chief Commissioner, who
   shall be appointed and removable by warrant under
   the hand of the Superintendent, acting by and with
   the advice of the Executive Council; and the said
   Chief Commissioner shall be the Chairman of the
   Public Lands Board for the district of Welling-
   ton.

5. The Superintendent shall, with the advice and
   consent of the Executive Council, appoint one member of each of the said Boards other than that for
   the Wellington district to be Chairman of such
   Board.

6. Every Public Lands Board shall sit at the
   Land Office thereof at certain stated times to be de-
   termined by the District Chairman thereof, and shall
   also sit for special purposes at such places and at
   such times as the Superintendent shall direct; of
   which sittings due notice shall be given in the Pro-
   vincial Government Gazette, or in one or more news-
   papers published at the town in the Province near-
   est to the said Land Office.

7. The Chairman of each board, when present,
   and in his absence then some member selected by
   those present at the meeting of such Board, shall
   preside thereat, and shall have a casting vote in all
   questions coming before such Board.

8. All questions coming before any Board shall
   be decided by a majority of the Commissioners pre-
   sent thereat.

9. All meetings of any Board shall be open to the
   public, and reasonable public notice shall be given
   of all business to be transacted thereat.

10. All applications for Land and for Pasturage
    and for Timber Licenses within any district shall,
    after hearing evidence when necessary, be deter-
    mined by the Board for that district at some sitting
    thereof.

11. Every Board shall have power to hear and
    determine all disputes between the holders of Pas-
    turage and Timber Licenses respecting the boun-
    daries of runs and districts, and shall have and exer-
    cise all the powers which may be lawfully had and ex-
    ercised by any Commissioner of Crown Lands under
    the provisions of the Crown Lands Ordinance, Sess.
    X., No. 1; and the Crown Lands Extension Ordi-
    nance, Sess. XI., No. 10, and under any Land Regula-
    tions for the Province of Wellington, within the
    district for which the said Board is established.

12. All the routine business of the Land Depart-
    ment relating to any district shall be transacted by
    the Chairman of the Board for that district; sub-
    ject to appeal to the Board itself.

13. A book to be called the “Application Book”
    shall be kept open during office hours at each Land
    Office, in which the name of every person desiring
    to make any application to the Board shall be written
    in order by himself or any person duly authorised on
    his behalf. And the Commissioner or Commissioners shall, during the sitting of the Board, consider
    and determine all applications in the order in which
    they shall appear in the application book. Provided
    that if any person shall not appear himself or by
    some person duly authorised on his behalf before
    the Board when called in his turn, his application
    shall be dismissed until his name shall appear again
    in the book in order. Provided also that if two or
    more persons shall apply at the same time to write
    their names in the Application book, the Chairman
    shall bracket their names and shall initial the bracket;
    and when they shall appear before the Board, the
    Board shall determine the priority of right to be
    heard 1st. And it shall not be lawful for the
    Board to hear any application except such as shall
    be made in accordance with this regulation.

14. Every Board shall keep true and detailed min-
    uttes of all applications made to such Board and all
    decisions thereon, and of all sums of money paid to
    such Board, and generally of all the proceedings of
    such Board, together with a reference to every let-
    ter, report, or communication received, and every
    letter written or order given by the said Board, and
    also minutes of personal interviews, and a
    minute of the opinion of the members of the
    said Board, in case they should differ in opinion; and such minutes shall be signed by
    all the Commissioners present at any meeting.
    And such minutes shall be open to the inspection of
    all persons desiring to inspect the same at all rea-
    sonable hours on payment of the sum of one shilling
    for every such inspection.

15. All payments to be made in respect of land
    shall be made to the Chairman of the Board during
    the sitting thereof, and the Chairman shall there-
    upon give receipts for the same.

16. Whereas, by the 2nd clause of the Constitu-
    tion Act the Governor is authorised and required to
    pay out of the revenue arising from the disposal of
    the Waste Lands of the Crown all the costs, charges,
    and expenses incident to the collection, manage-
    ment, and receipt thereof, and also to pay out of the
    said revenue such sums as shall become payable
    under certain other provisions therein contained: the
    Chairman of each Public Lands Board shall, there-
    fore, pay out of all the funds coming into his hands
    under these regulations all such sums for the above-
    named purposes, in such manner and to such persons
    as the Governor shall direct.

17. Whenever the title to any Native Land shall
    have been extinguished it shall be lawful for the
    Governor, within one month thereafter, to permit
    the Native sellers to purchase, at the rate of 10s.
    an acre, any portion of such Land; and the same,
    when surveyed, may be conveyed by Crown Grant
    accordingly.

18. It shall also be lawful for the Governor, if he
    shall think fit, within three months after the extin-
    guishment of the Native title in any Land, to sell
    and dispose of the same, or any part thereof, to
    the person or persons at whose instance such extin-
    guishment shall have been effected, excepting al-
    ways any person or persons employed in the Native
    Secretary’s Office, or in the Native Land Purchase
    Department, for a sum not less than after the rate of
    10s. an acre, with the addition of the price paid
    to the Natives for the release of their rights in
    the Land sold, and the cost of surveying thereof.

19. The Superintendent shall, from time to time,
    set apart such portions of the Waste Lands as are
    about to be offered for sale as he shall think fit.

20. To be called “Credit Land”

The Application Book shall be kept open during office
hours at each Land Office, and any person who for a
period of five years prior to the passing of this Act shall
have resided in the Province may enter his name in the
book, and make a new division thereof; provided
always that the total quantity of land which shall be
notified as open for sale as Credit Land shall not exceed
two hundred thousand acres (200,000) in the whole.