3. These Regulations shall supersede Regulations 8 and 14, of Sir G. Grey’s Regulations of 3rd March, 1853, so far as they may be repugnant to the same.

Military and Naval Settlers.

1. Every non-Commissioned and Warrant officer and every private soldier, Marine and Seaman, whether belonging to Her Majesty’s service, or to the service of the East India Company, who may retire or obtain his discharge from the service to which he may belong, or who, having retired or obtained his discharge, has not selected land under any former law or regulation enabling Naval and Military Settlers to select land free of cost, shall be entitled to receive from the Commissioner a land order enabling him to acquire land free of cost after the following rate :--viz,

Non-Commissioned and Warrant Officer ............ 80 acres.
Private Soldier, Marine and Seaman ............... 60 acres.

2. Provided always that every non-Commissioned Officer, Private, Marine and Seaman, before he shall be entitled to receive any such Land Order, shall produce to the Commissioner, a certificate from the Officer under whom he may have served, of having, during his period of service, been of good character ; provided also, that every such Land order shall be applied for within 12 calendar months next after such retirement or discharge, as aforesaid, or within 6 months from the adoption of this Regulation, by those who have retired or been discharged.

3. An actual Residence of 2 years in the Province, must be proved before the titles can be granted, except in cases in which deaths may have occurred before the expiration of that period.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Islands of New Zealand.

I, ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in pursuance of the power vested in me by clause II. of the Additional Land Regulations of the Fifteenth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, Do Hereby Proclaim and Notify that the Block of Land situate in the Three Mile Bush on the Taratahi Plain, in the Wairarapa District, comprised within the following boundaries, viz. : The North-East, the road fifty links wide, commencing at the main line between Sections, No. 144 and 145 on the Plan of the Small Farm Reserve, on the Taratahi Plain ; South-East, part of Section, No. 24, and Sections No. 117, 124, and 127 on the same plan ; South-West, Sections, No. 131, 186, and 135 on the same plan ; and, North-West, partly the Three Mile Bush Road, and partly Sections, No. 142, 143, and 144 on the same plan, to contain about two thousand eight hundred acres, and which said boundaries are particularly delineated in the plan annexed hereto, will from and after this date be reserved as the site of a Township to be called “Carterton”; and that until further notice, no applications for the said land will be received at the Land Office, Wellington.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

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