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New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 331, 21 July 1849, Page 3

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

LEGISLATIVE. Council Chamber, 20th July, 1849. HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief directs it to be notified that the General Legislative Council of New Zealand will meet for the despatch of business at Auckland, on Wednesday, the Ist August next. J. Coates, Clerk of Council.

CROWN TITLES BILL.

In the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Session . No. ANALYSIS. Title. Pieamble. 1. Grants made before passing hereof, declared to be valid. 2. Compensation to be made in caie Native Title not fully extinguished. 3. Such Compensation to be payable out of General Revenue of Province, 4. Operation of certain Grants declared to confer on the Grantee a right of selection. 5. Right of Selection, how to be exercised. 6. Map and description of Boundaries to be endoised on Grant. 7. Grant to be vuhd when endorsement shall have 1 been signed by Governor. 8. In certain ca*es land may be taken in Exchange. 9. Value, how ascertained. 10. Ordinance not to come into operation until it receives Royal assent.

Title. An Ordinance for Quieting Titles to Land in the Province of New Ulster. (Passed the day of ) Prenmble. WHEREAS since the Proclamation of Her Majesty's Sovereignty in and over the Islands of New Zealand, various Laws, Ordinances, Royal Letters Patent and Instructions, have from time to time been made and issued, relating to the disposal by the Crown of lands within the colony — prescribing the terms and conditions on which such lands should be alienated and disposed of— and limiting and appointing the power and authority of the Governor for the time being to make grants of the same in the name and on behalf of the Crown ; And whereas during such period as aforesaid, numerous grants of land within the Province of New Ulster have been made in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty by the Governor, Lieutenant -Governor, or other the Officer administering the Government of the Colony for the time being : And whereas in many cases doubts are entertained whether such Governor or other Officer was duly authorised and empowered to make such grants, in the name and on behalf of the Crown, and whether such grants were otherwise made in conformity with the Regulations for the time being in force in that behalf: And whereas numerous Grants of land claimed under the provisions of the Land Claims Ordinance, Sess. 1, No. 2, have also been made, wherein the land of which the Grantee is recited to be entitled to a grant forms a part only of the whole quantity claimed to have been purchased by him from the aboriginal native owners, and is not particularly set foith and described in such Grant ; and it is doubtful in point of law* whether by reason of such unceitainty, any or what portion of land is validly conveyed by such Grant : And whereas certain cases have already been submitted to the Judgment of the Supreme Court, but it is essential to the prosperity of the Colony that such doubts should in all cases be removed with the least possible delay :— Now, therefore, for the more speedy removal of such doubts, and as far as may be in conformity with such Judgments as aforesaid, and for the effectual quieting of Crown Titles, Be it enacted and declared by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :— 1. Grants made before passing hereof declared to be valid. 1. Every Grant of Land within the Province of New Ulster, sealed with the Public Seal of the Colony or Province, and made before the passing of this Ordinance, in the name and on the behalf of the Crown, by the Governor, Lieu-tenant-Go vernor, or other the Officer administering the GoYei'ttmeut for, the time being,