LAND GRANTS TO VOLUNTEER MILITIAMEN FOR TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 131, 17 July 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

LAND GRANTS TO VOLUNTEER MILITIAMEN FOR TARANAKI.

(From the Daily Southern Cross, July 8.)

Conditions upon which land situate between Omata and Tatarairaaka in the Province of Taranaki, will be granted to settlers :

1. Settlements will be surveyed and mark-

ed out at the expense of the Government. 2. Each settlement will comprise not less than 100 town allotments and 100 farm sections.

3. A stockade on the most eligible site in in each settlement will be erected at the expense of the Government. 4. A town will be laid out around or as near as conveniently may be to the stockade in one acre allotments.

5. Farms will be laid out around, or as near as conveniently may be to the town, in sections of 50 acres each.

6. Every settler under these conditions will he entitled to one town alllotment and one farm section. 7. Priority of choice will he determined by lot.

8. No man above the age of 45 years will he accepted, and every applicant will he subject to an examination by an officer appointed by the Governor, and must produce such certificates of good health, character, and general fitness for the service, as such officer shall require. 9. Each accepted applicant will be provided, at the expense of the Government, with a steerage passage to New Plymouth. Before embarkation, he will he required to sign a declaration agreement to the effect that he understands and will he hound by and fulfil these conditions.

10. On arrival at New Plymouth, he will be enrolled and required to serve in the Taranaki Militia. He will be entitled to pay and rations accordingly until he is authorised by the Government to take possession of his land, when he will be relieved of “ actual

service.”

11. After taking possession he will be entitled to receive rations, free of cost for twelve months, upon the same scale as supplied to her Majesty’s troops; he will be allowed to retain possession, as a militiaman, of his arms and accoutrements, and he will be supplied with ammunition for use according to militia regulations. 12. No settler after taking possession will be permitted for the first three years after his arrival at New Plymouth to absent himself from his settlement for moi'e than one calendar month in one year without the leave of the Governor first obtained.

13. During such three years he will be liable to be trained and exercised as other Militia men; and whenever a portion of the Taranaki Militia shall be called out for actual service, each settler will be deemed to be a Volunteer Militiaman, and will be required to serve as such. During such service he will be entitled to the same pay, rations and allowance as other militiamen.

14. On the expiration of three years from the day of his arrival at 2sew Plymouth each settler, having fulfilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown grant of the town allotment and farm section allotted to him ; and will thenceforth be subject only to the same militia services as other colonists.

15. Any settler desiring to leave his settlement will be permitted to do so on providing a substitute approved of by the Government. Such substitute will be subject to the same privileges as the settler whose place he takes.

IG. In the case of the death of any settler before he shall become entitled to his Crown grant, the laud allotted to him will be at the disposal of the Government for the location of another settler under these conditions or for any other purpose, but the value of any improvements made thereon by the deceased settler will be determined by valuation, and the amount paid by the Government to such person (if any) as the deceased settler shall have appointed by writing to receive the same.