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and rural allotments respectively to be laid out in each of the said settlements so constituted and set apart as above.

(b.) Before any grants, sales or reserves shall be made or the lands disposed of by lease, it shall be lawful for the Governor to make such reserves in such settlements as he may think necessary for purposes connected with the public service of the Colony; and before any such grants, sales or disposals by lease of land in any town in each such settlement shall take place, a plan of such town shall be sent to the Governor.

(c.) The Chairman of the County Council, with the advice of the Waste Lands Board, may cause reserves to be made for the uses of the County and for public purposes in any parts of the land set apart in each such settlement as aforesaid, either before or after the same may have been laid out as town, suburban or rural lands respectively.

(d.) Such town, suburban and rural lands shall be sold at the upset price provided under this Act; or, if not sold, may be disposed of by being leased by the Waste Lands Board in the manner following—

(1.) Unsold town lands may be leased in sections of not less than one-quarter acre nor more than one-half acre to one person for seven years at an annual rental payable in advance at the rate of one pound ten shillings per acre.

(2.) Suburban lands may be leased in blocks of not less than ten acres for seven years at an annual rental payable in advance at the rate of six shillings per acre.

(3.) Rural lands may be leased in blocks of not less than twenty-five acres nor more than two hundred and fifty acres for seven years at an annual rental payable in advance at the rate of three shillings per acre.

(e.) Any lessee holding and occupying a lease as aforesaid for town, suburban or rural lands for the term of seven years shall be entitled, at the payment of the seventh year’s rent in advance, to a Crown Grant without further payment.

(f.) All lands not lawfully occupied under this Act within each of such proclaimed settlements shall be considered as commonage and may be depastured by the settlers residing within each such settlement so long as the same or parts thereof have not been legally taken up.

(g.) All suburban and rural lands shall be subject to provisions made in section forty-four and to the Seventh Schedule to this Act.

(h.) No lessee shall be entitled to a Crown Grant unless he shall have bona fide occupied and cultivated such lands leased by him to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board.

79. The money to arise from the sale and disposal of any lands within either of the said settlements shall be applied in the first place for the following purposes—

(1.) In defraying the expenses incident to the formation and laying out of each such settlement.

(2.) In making and constructing roads and any other necessary public works within each such settlement.

(3.) In establishing, endowing and maintaining public schools and any other necessary public institutions within each such settlement.

(4.) In maintaining communication either by sea or by land with each such settlement.

“WESTLAND WASTE LANDS ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1873.”

(3.) Rural lands may be leased in blocks of not less than twenty-five acres nor more than two hundred and fifty acres for seven years at an annual rental payable in advance at the rate of three shillings per acre.

(4.) If at any time of continued residence the lessee shall purchase the said town, suburban or rural land held by him under a lease at the upset price as fixed in said Act, the rental paid prior to the purchase shall be considered as the deposit made at the application for the purchase of the said land and