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on behalf of Her Majesty, shall from time to time appoint a sufficient number of fit persons throughout the Colony to be Receivers of Land Revenue, and such Receivers in each Province shall be paid out of such Revenue arising therein respectively such salaries as may be a reasonable remuneration for their services.

IV. All Revenue and Receipts arising from the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Colony shall be paid to such Receivers and to no other persons, and no Crown Grant of any Land shall be issued, unless and until a Receiver of Land Revenue shall have certified, in a form to be from time to time prescribed by the Governor for that purpose, to the effect that such Land has been disposed of in conformity with a Law (to be specified in such certificate) for the time being in force for the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown, and that all money then due in respect of such Land has been received by him in cash.

V. There shall be paid by the Receivers of Land Revenue to the Colonial Treasurer, out of the gross Revenue and Receipts arising as aforesaid within the several Provinces of Auckland, Wellington, and Taranaki, one-sixth part of the said Revenue and Receipts to be expended as hereinafter provided.

VI. The one-sixth part of the gross Land Revenue so to be paid out of the Land Revenue of the several Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, and Wellington, shall be expended in the extinguishment of the Native title over lands situate in each of the said Provinces respectively, and for no other purpose whatever; and the said one-sixth shall be payable so long as there shall be lands in the said Provinces respectively, over which it shall be deemed desirable that the Native title should be extinguished: Provided always, that until any such money shall be required it shall be lawful for the Governor to invest the same, or any part thereof, in such manner and upon such security as he shall think fit for the benefit of the Province in respect of which the same shall be received.

VII. After and subject to the payments to be made under the provisions hereinbefore contained, all the Revenue arising from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the several Provinces of the Colony, shall, in pursuance of warrants to be from time to time granted by the Governor, be paid over by the Receivers of Land Revenue to the respective Treasuries of such Provinces for the public uses thereof, subject to the appropriation of the respective Provincial Councils.

VIII. Provided always that nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice or interfere with the operation of an Act of the General Assembly intituled “The New Zealand Loan Act, 1856.”

IX. The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Land Revenue Appropriation Act, 1868.”

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

New River Harbour, Foveaux Straits.

Invercargill,
30th October, 1868.

SIR,—The New River pilot having communicated to me the following information, I lose no time in forwarding the same to your Honor.

“1st. The pilot states that the channel at the entrance of the New River (in which, at low water springs, Mr. Thomson, Chief Surveyor, found from sixteen to eighteen feet two years ago) is gradually filling up, so that two months ago the pilot could only find nine feet, and about a fortnight ago only six feet.

“2nd. That a new channel (at present about two cables’ length to the north-west of the former one, in which, when he last sounded, fifteen feet at low water: where this channel now exists there were formerly only a few feet).

“I have taken steps to apprise the commanders of the whalers which frequent the River, of the change; which I trust may prevent them making an attempt to enter the River by the old channel, which attempt would certainly be attended with serious consequences to vessels of their draught.

“Strangers will not likely attempt to enter without a Pilot; but as a recent instance occurred in which a stranger did so enter, I would respectfully suggest that, to prevent accident, all publicity should be given to the above report.

“I indulge a hope that this new channel which has so suddenly made its appearance, and is much wider than the old one, will continue to increase in depth, and thus make the Port of New River much more easy of access than it has hitherto been.

“I have the honor to be, &c.,
“A. J. ELLES,
“Resident Magistrate and Harbour Master.

“His Honor the Superintendent of Otago.”

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