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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 713, 12 February 1853, Page 2 (Supplement)

Time to make Provision for the Purposes | aforesaid, any Repugnancy of any such native Laws, Customs, or Usages to the Law of England, or to any Law, Statute, or Usage in force in New Zealand, or in any Part thereof, in anywise notwithstanding. Power to General Assembly to regulate Sales of Waste Lands. LXXIL Subject to the Provisions herein contained, it shall be lawful for the said General Assembly to make Laws for regulating the Sale, Letting, Disposal, *nd Occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand ; and all Lands wherein the Title of Natives shall be extinguished as herein-after mentioned, and all such other Lands as are described in an Act of the Session holden in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and twelve, to promote Colonization in New Zealand, and to authorize a Loan to the New Zealand Company, as Demesne Lands of the Crown, shall be deemed and taken to be Waste Lands of the Crown within the Meaning of this Act; Provided always, that subject to the said Provisions, and until the said General Assembly shall otherwise enact, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to regulate such Sale, Letting, Disposal, and Occupation by Instructions to be issued under the Signet and Royal bign Manual. Saving as to the Lands of oboriginahle native Tribes. LXXIII. It shall not be lawful for any Person other than Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, to purchase or in anywise acquire or accept from the aboriginal Natives Land of or belonging to or used or occupied by them in common as Tribes or Communities, oi to accept any Release or Ex' mguishment of the Rights of such aboriginal Natives in any such Land as aforesaid ; and no Conveyance or Transfer, or Agreement for the Conveyance or Transfer of any such Land, either in perpetuity or for any Term or Period, either absolutely or conditionally, and either in Property or by way of Lease or Occupancy, and no such Release or Extinguishment as aforesaid shall be of any Validity or Effect unless the same be made to, or entered into with, and accepted by Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors : Provined always, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, by Instructions under the Signet and Royal Sign Manual or signified through One of Her Majesty s Principal Secretaries of State, to delegate Her Powers of accepting such Conveyances or Agreements, Releases or Relinquishments, to the Governor of New Zealand , or the Superintendent of any Provinces within the Limits of such Province, and to prescribe or regulate the Terms on which such Conveyances or Agreements, Releases, orExtinguiahmeats shall | be accepted. 10 cC- 11 Viet. c. 112. LXXIV. And whereas under and by virtue of the said last-mentioned Act, and of a Notice : given on the Fourth Day 7 of July One tfiou- ! sand eight hundred and fifty by the New i Zealand Company in pursuance of such Act, j the Sum of Two hundred and sixty-eight j thousand three hundred and seventy 7 Pounds I Fifteen Shillings, with Interest after the yearly Rate of Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum upon the said Sum,or so much thereof as shall from Time to Time remain unpaid, is charged upon and payab'e to the New Zealand Company out of the Proceeds of the Sales of the Demense Lands of the Crown in New Zealand: Upon all Sales of Waste Lands One Fourth Part of the Sum to be p>aid to New Zealand Company till their Debt is discharged. In respect of all Sales or other Alienations of any Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand in Fee Simple or for any less estate or Interest (except by way of Licence for Occupation for pastoral Purposes for any Term of Years not exceeding Seven, and not containing any Contract for the Renewal of the same, or for a further Estate, interest, or Licence, or by way of Reservation of such Lands as may be required for public Roads or other internal Communications whether by Land or Water, or for the Use or Benefit of the aboriginal Inhabitants of the Country, or for Purposes of Military Defence, or as the Sites of Places of Public Worship, Schools, or other public Buildings, or as Places for the Interment of the Dead, or Places for the Recreation and Amusement of the Inhabitants of any Town or Village, or as the sites of public Quays or Landing Places on the Sea Coast or Shores of navigable Streams, or for any other Purposes of public Safety, Convenience, Health, or Enjoyment,) there shall be pdd to the said New Zealand Company towards the Discharge of the Principal Sum and Interest charged as aforesaid, in lieu of all and every other Claim of the said Company in respect of the said Sum, except where otherwise herein-after provided, so long as the same or any Pait thereof respectively shall remain unpaid, One Fourth Part of the Sum paid by the Purchaser in respect of every such Sale or