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New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 891, 28 October 1854, Page 1 (Supplement)

and such allotments shall he distinguished on a plan thereof by appropriate marks. 11. After any such block shall have been set apart as aforesaid, and the outside boundaries thereof surveyed, and either before or after the same shall have been subdivided into allotments, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council, to declare by proclamation, to be published in the Provincial Government Gazette , that the same shall be open for sale in New Zealand, on and after a day to be fixed by public notice, of at least one month, to that effect, to be published in the Provincial Government Gazette. 12. Or it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with such advice as aforesaid, to declare by a notice, to be published in the said Gazette , that any such block of land is reserved for sale in the United Kingdom, or elsewhere without (he colony of New Zealand. 13. All such Special occupation Land shall be sold at the fixed price of 10s. an acre, and shall be disposed of only to persons intending bona fide to occupy and improve the same, and who shall be willing to take the same, subject to the conditions herein contained. 14. Any person desirous of making a selection of Special Occupation Land, shall, on application to the Waste Land Board in Auckland, or to their agent elsewhere out of New Zealand respectively, be entitled, upon payment of a sum ofls.au acre, by way of deposit, to receive a Land Order in a form to be prescribed by the Waste Land Board : Provided always, that no person shall be entitled to any Land Order for more than 500 acres of Land, (unless the same be claimed in respect of Intermediate or Steerage Passengers as hereinafter provided), or less than 40 acres. 15. Such Land Order shall not be transferable, but in the event of the death ot any person, tojwhom any such Order shall have been issued, all Iris right and interest under the same shall vest in bis appointee, constituted in writing, and in default of such an appointee, shall vest in his legal representative, either of whom shall be subject to the like terms and conditions as the person to whom such land order was originally granted. 16. Every such Land Order shall authorise the person entitled to the same, or his agent, constituted in writing, to make a selection out of the particular block or blocks of land, which shall have been specially set apart for the purpose, and which shall be specified m such Land Order, or out of any other Special Occupation Land, which shall have been set apart, under section 11 of these Regulations, for sale in New Zealand, and which ( shall be open for selection at the time such per- j son shall desire to make the same : Provided al- j ways that the land so selected shall be either in j one allotment, or in contiguous allotments, j 17. Every right of selection must be exercised within two calendar months from the date of tho , Land Order,where the same shall have been issued S by the Waste Land Board in Auckland; before the expiration of six calendar mouths from the date of the land order, where the same shall have been issued by an agent of the said Board in any one of the Australian Colonies; and before the expiration of twelve calendar months from the date of such Land Order, where the same shall have been issued hy an agent of the. said Board elsewhere out of the Colony of New Zealand : and in default of any such selection being made, within tbe time limited for making the same as aforesaid, the right to make a selection shall cease, and the deposit paid in respect of the same shall be forfeited.

18, The selection under any Laud Order shall be deemed to be complete, whenever the person making the same shall have delivered such Order, during office hour's, to the Waste Land Board, together with a description in writing (under a sealed cover, with the words “ Description of special occupation land” legibly written thereon) sufficient for the purpose of identifying the land selected ; and all such sealed covers shall be opened at 10 o’clock in the morning of the next business day in the presence of the applicants, if they shall attend ; and if there be more than one application for the same land, or any part thereof, one of the Commissioners shall (as to the land in dispute) at once decide by lot the priority of choice. 19. The person whose application shall be granted, shall then be entitled to have immediate occupation of the land selected, and shall be entitled to a lease of the same for four years, in a form to be prescribed by the Waste Land Board, at a yearly rent after the rate of Is. per acre, payable yearly; and the payment hereinbefore required by way of deposit, shall be deemed to be in .payment of the first year’s rent. 20. After four years bona fide occupation, and the payment of the rent reserved by the lease, the lessee shall be entitled to a grant from the Crown, in fee simple, of the land comprised in such lease, on payment of the price thereof, after the rate of 10s. an acre : Provided always that if the purchase money and all rent due be not paid within six calendar months after the explication of the lease, the land therein comprised shall be forfeited, and may be resumed by the Waste Land Board on behalf of the Crown. 21. No lessee will be permitted to assign, underlease, or part with the possession of any Special Occupation Land, and none other than the original lessee will be entitled to the occupation 1