CARNARVON—continued.

TOWNSHIP OF PALMERSTON.

Terms and Conditions of Settlement of Scandinavian Immigrants under “The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871.”

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1873.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871,” it is among other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, with the advice of his Executive Council, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, to set aside, out of the waste lands within the Province of Wellington, the Native title of which has been extinguished, any block or blocks for the purpose of special settlement, not exceeding in the whole one hundred thousand acres, on such terms as may be sanctioned by the Governor in Council, anything in the existing regulations for the management or disposal of the waste lands in the Province to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas the said Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council as aforesaid, hath proposed to set aside certain allotments of land within the Township of Palmerston, in the Manawatu District, in the said Province, containing one thousand seven hundred and four acres one rood and eleven perches or thereabouts, as the special settlement under the said Act for Scandinavian immigrants placed on the said land by the General Government of the Colony, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned: And whereas the said Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council as aforesaid, hath requested the Governor to sanction the said terms:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby sanction the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto, as the terms and conditions under which the said proposed special settlement shall be made under the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE OCCUPATION AND PURCHASE OF THE BLOCK OF LAND PROPOSED TO BE SET ASIDE FOR SPECIAL SETTLEMENT AS AFORESAID.

The upset price of the land shall be one pound per acre, the whole amount to be paid on or before the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, in yearly payments of not less than one-fifth of the full amount of the purchase money.

In those cases where the immigrants failed to pay the first instalment on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two they will be allowed to retain their selections of land provided they pay, on or before the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, two instalments, equal to two-fifths of the purchase money, but not otherwise.

The land laws and regulations now in force in the Province of Wellington shall be applicable to the foregoing land, except so far as they may be altered or amended by the above conditions.

Fonster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Proclamation.

By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Wellington Special Settlements Act, 1871,” it is enacted that it...