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purchase money shall be the condition ot any such sale by auction, and the remaining nine-tenths of the purchase money must be paid by the purchaser within one calendar month next alter the time ot such sale by auction, or the one-tenth ot the purchase money which has been deposited will be forfeited, and the original contract for the sale ot the land will thenceforward be null and void. 24 — Lands on which .such deposit shall have been so forfeited map he purchased within three pears at the price hid for them, deducting unp deposit paid, unless again put up to Auction. In the ease of lands thus forfeited by the noncompletion of the contract for their purchase, it shall be competent for any person within the next three years after the auction at which the bidding for such lands was made, to purchase such lands for the amount that was bid for them, alter deducting the amount ot any deposit that shall have been paid thereon. But this regulation will not prevent the Government from causing the same lands to be put up to auction again it it shall appear necessary to do so. Sec. VI. —Government Scrip. 25. — Scrip to he taken as cash in the purchase of Town and Suburban lots. The Scrip to be issued in satisfaction of claims under land orders of the New Zealand Company shall be taken in payment for Town and Suburban Land at the nominal value of such Scrip in pounds sterling. 26. Value at which Seri/) shall he received in the purchase of rural lands of various denominations. In the purchase of Rural Land the Scrip shall be taken at such a value that one pound in Scrip shall represent the upset price or fixed price, as the case may be, of one acre of Rural Land at the date when the scrip may be tendered at the Treasury ; and for the protection of the Scrip holders this rule shall equally prevail if the general price of Country Land throughout the colony shall at any time be raised : Provided always that in the purchase of all Rural Lands within the limits of hundreds, and of such Rural Lands outside the limits of Hundreds as may be put up to auction or sold at a fixed price under clauses 9 and 11 of these Regulations, one pound in Scrip shall represent its nominal value of one pound sterling, except where such fixed or upset price is lower than jS 1 per acre, in which case it shall represent such lower price only'. 27. — Scrip not available in the purchase of Crown Land in certain localities. The Scrip will not be available in the purchase of Crown Land within the limits of any Hundred which shall have been proclaimed before the 2nd day of August, 1851, nor within the Town site of New Plymouth. Sec. VII. —Military Settlers, 28. — Military and Naval Officers to he entitled throughout Crown Lands in New Zealand to of Regulations of Map , 1851 ; hut the remission money subject to Regulations 25 and 26 as to Scrip. Military and Naval Officers will be allowed in all parts of New Zealand where there are Waste Lands of the Crown, the privileges accorded to them by the Regulations of May 1851. But the remission money given to them in the terms of those regulations will be subject to the rules 25 and 26 hereinbefore prescribed relative to Government Scrip. Sec. Vlll.— Appropriation of the Land Fund. 29. — After defraying the charges created by Parliament, dm., the Land Fund to he applied to Public JV 'orhs and Immigration, until otherwise j directed by General Assembly or Provincial Legislatures. After the charges made upon the Land Fund by the Act of Parliament 15 and 16 Viet., cap. 72, have been defrayed in the manner prescribed by law, the remaining portion of the Land Fund will, until the General Assembly or the Provincial Legislatures may otherwise direct, be devoted to Roads and Public Works, or to bringing out to New Zealand the friends and relatives of those persons who may undertake to defray, within twelve months after the arrival in the colony of the immigrants so brought out, one-half of the cost of their passage to this country, according to the following scale, namely : For Adults £l6 0 0 per head. Children between 7 and 14 years old ... 10 10 0 Children between 1 and 7 years of age 6 0 0 In districts where a Land Fund may not have been created by the sale of land, the Government will receive applications from persons desirous of having their relations or friends sent out and willing to enter into an agreement, guaranteed by some responsible person, for the repayment of the passage money within twelve months after their arrival in the colony. Sec. IX.—Fees on Crown Grants. 30. The fees on the issue of any Crown Grant to be 'los. only. By the Local Ordinance, Session VII., No. XL, it is enacted that, before the delivery of any Crown Grant, the sum of Twenty Shillings shall be paid by the person duly authorized to receive such Grant : and no other fees for or in respect of tlie preparation of any such Grant shall be payable thereon. Sec, X.—Commencement of Regulations. 31. —Regulation to come into force, except as regards lands reserved to the Canterbury and Otago A ssociations, fifteen days after the receipt in each Province of a copy thereof by the proper Officer. These Regulations shall come into force, in relation to all Demense Lai is of the Crown in New Zealand which are not reserved to the Canterbury Association or Otago Association, in the several 1