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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 740, 18 May 1853, Page 3 (Supplement)

Now therefore , /, ilie flovernor of Xew Zealand, 1 do hereby make ami establish the following Regnhithns for the Sale and Uispostil of the Waste ! Lands of the Crown in New Zealand: GEX ERA L LA X D REGU LAT lONS. ANALYSIS. Section I.—Town and Suburban Allotments. 1. Town and Suburban Lands So be sold by Auction. I 2. Regulations not to prevent sales of allotments j now open for purchase Section ll.— Lands within the ujiiis or Hundreds. | 3. Lands inside Hundreds to bo sold by Auction on- ! less in Hundreds i xempted from this rule : 4. In whicli care the regulation of next section to app'y to exempted 1 mis, 3. Preceding rules not to prevent rales of lands now open for purchase. G. Right of Pastor ago in Ilumhcds con fried to oc cupants under Grants, No. Section 111.—Puoci aimi i> Lands outside Hundreds. 7. Rural Lands outside Hundreds to be sold at fixed ]irice of 10s. per acre. 0. Rut where land is so unavailable that the Commissioner shall certify it is not worn 10s. per acre, lands so certified shall be surveyed and put un to Auction at ss. per acre. 0. Mineral sections, oi other sections for which there may bo several competitors, may at any time be put up to Auction. 10. Rural a'lotments to be generally of a rectangular f’omi, and extend at least forty chains in depth from road.i, rivers, &c.: 11. Rut in any cultivated localities allotments of irregular shape and small extent may be I ml out. 12. In districts where the Inn s of road aic not laid out, a right of toad icarv d, and allowance u ade in land from three to five per cent. 13. Ri lit of pro caption of homesteads g - anted to run holders at a fixed price of either 10s or ss. per acre : the run holder, however, may be called upon to ■ xercise this right. 11. Lands applied for which form part of a sufficiently storked tun will, provided they be certified as unavailable for agriculture, he put up to auction at .os. per a< re after three months’ notice of sale shall hj ve been given to the run holder. Section IV. Untroclaimed Lands. 1-5. Applicants for lands in unproclaimcd districts to make their own surveys if a Government Surveyor cannot be sent; 16. In which case an allowanoe of five acres per cent, will be made. 17, If such laud lie sold at Auction, and the original applicant he outbid, the original applicant will be repaid, as the cost of such survey, a sum not ex- j cording one shilling per acre. to, Allotments in uuprockimcd districts not to be less than eighty acres in extent 19. Certain rules for bands in proclaimed districts to be also applicable in unproclaimed. Section V. —Sales iiv Auction. 20. Lands sold by Auction to be first surveyed and marked on plans. 21. Public notice of sale to be given not more than ■ hree months nor less than one month. 22. Lands put up to Auction, and not sold, may lie purchased at the upset puce within three years, iinhss again put up to auction. 23. Tt n per rent, of the purchase money to be deposited at the sale, and the remainder j aid within one month, or deposit forfeited. 21. Lands on which such deposit shall have been so forfeited may he purchased within three years at the price hid for th m, deducting any deposit paid, unless .again put up to auction. Sue i ion VI. Government Scarp. 23. Scrip to be taken as cash in the purchase of Town and 'uburhan lots. 26. Value at which scrip shall ho received in the purchase oft urnl land of various denominations. 27. Scrip not available in the purchase of Crown land in certain localities. Section VI J.— Military Settlers. 2S. Military and jVevnl Officers to be entitled throughout Crown Lands in New Zealand to privileges of 13 . tiki ions of May, 1851, but the remission money subject to Regulations 25 and 26 as to scrip. Section VIII. —Appropriation of the Land Fund. 29. After defray!i g the charges created by Parliament, (lie land fund to he app' ied to I’uhlic Works and Immigri ion until otherwise directed by General Assembly or Provincial Legislatures. Section IX. Fees on Crown Grants. 30. The fees on the issue of any Crown Grant to be I 20s. only. Section X. Commencement or Regulation?. 31. Regulations to come into force, except as regards Lands reserved to the Canterbury and Otago Associations, fifteen days after the receipt in each Province of a copy thereof b the proper officer. 32. Proclamation to take effect liom date. Sec. I. —Town Allotments and Sum;xiuan Allotments. 1. Town and Suburban /wends to !>e sold hy Auction. All lands reserved as Town ami Suburban allotments will he sold by Auction according to the Regulations hereinafter prescribed for Auction stiles, and at such prices as may he fixed by Government in the public Notice or Proclamation in which the intended stile oi such allotments is notified. 2. — lt emulation not to prevent sales of Land already open for purchase. The foregoing rule will not prevent the sale of such Town and Suburban allotments as are now open for purchase under former .Regulations. Sec. i I. —Lands within the Limi ts of 11 undreds. 3. — Lauds insole 11/endrials io ho sold hif Auction , 'unless in JI and reds exempted from this rule. Lands within the limits of Hundreds, (except in those Hundreds which may, upon petition of the inhabitants thereof or otherwise, be declared as nut falling within this rule), will he sold by Auction in accordance with the Regulations hereinafter prescribed for Auction sales, and at such prices and in allotments of such extent as may ho fixed hy Government in fhe public .Notice or Proclamation in which the intended sale ot such lands is notified.