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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 nine hundred and
thirty-six acres one rood and twenty-nine
perches, or thereabouts, as a special
settlement under the said Act for road
labourers 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
and condition:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in 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 road labourers
have 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.

Forster 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
shall be lawful for the Superintendent
of the Province of Wellington, with the
advice and consent 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.
It is also provided that no land
shall be sold at a less price than land of
a similar description is now sold at under
the regulations aforesaid, and that the
proceeds thereof shall be subject to any
sum already imposed thereon by any
Act of the General Assembly. And
whereas by an Order in Council dated
the twenty-seventh day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, certain allotments of land in the
township of Palmerston, in the Manawatu
district, in the said Province, are sanctioned as a special settlement under the
said Act for the location and settlement
of road labourers upon the terms and conditions set forth in the second schedule
hereto:

Now therefore, I, William Fitzherbert,
Superintendent of the Province of
Wellington, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council thereof,
and in the exercise of the power in me
vested, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the allotments of land situated in
the township of Palmerston, in the Manawatu
district, in the Province of Wellington,
containing about nine hundred and
thirty-six acres, one rood and twenty-nine
perches, more or less, and more fully
described in the first schedule hereto,
shall be reserved and set apart as a special settlement under the said Act for
the purposes before mentioned.

Given under my hand and issued
under the public seal of the
Province of Wellington, at Wellington,
this thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three.

William Fitzherbert,
Superintendent.

Countersigned,
Henry Bunny,
Provincial Secretary.