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

certificate under these Regulations, and all rent shall, from the date of such payment, cease to be payable, or a deduction therefrom shall be made in proportion to the amount of money paid on account by such Money certificate, as the case may be: Provided nevertheless thatno grant shall be made until after a bona fide occupation as herein provided, V. Emigration from India. 31. As the appointment of Agents in India cannot at present be conveniently made, and it is desiable to encourage emigration therefrom, every person arriving from India for the purpose of settling in the Province of Auckland, and desirous of selecting land, shall he entitled to acquire property free of cost, in proportion to his actual outlay on Emigration, upon the following terms:— 32. Every such person shall, within three days after his arrival, personally attend at the office of the Waste Land Board in Auckland, and state his claim to acquire land under these Regulations. 33. The Waste Land Board shall appoint a day for investigating such claim, when, if it shall appearto them that such person left India with a bona fide intention of becoming a settler in the Province of Auckland, they shall grant him a Money certificate amounting in value to twothirds of the sum which he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Land Board that he has actually expended in the payment of passage money, for himself, his family and servants to New Zealand, not exceeding in the whole the the pi ice of 500 acres of special occupation land. 3-1. Such Money certificate shall be received fur the amount therein expressed, in payment of any Special Occupation Land, which he may select from such as may have been declared, as hereinbefore provided, to be open for sale in New Zealand. VI. Naval and Military settlers. 35, Every Naval and Military Officer, whether, on full or half pay, and every non-com-missioned officer and private, marine and seaman, whether belonging to Her Majesty’s service or to the service of the East India Company, who may be at any time within the Province of Auckland, and retire or obtain his discharge from the service to which he belongs, shall be entitled to receive from the Waste Land Board (in lieu of an allowance in respect of money expended in passages, as hereinbefore provided, in respect of Settlersemigrating from the United Kingdom) a Money certificate enabling him to acquire Land free of cost after the following rate. Commissioned Officers - - 400 acres.

Non-Commissioned Officers above th e 4 rank of Corporal, or equivale nt >BO acres., to that rank in the sea service - J Non-Commissioned Officers, being Corporals, or under that rank, or equivalent to or under that rank in the sea service Private Soldiers, Marines, and Sea-) acreg men - j 30. Such Money Certificate shall be received for the amount therein expressed, in payment of any Special Occupation Land, which the person entitled to such certificate may select from such as may have been declared, as hereinbefore provided, to be open for sale in New Zealand. VII. General Country Land. 87- Any person desirous of purchasing any General Country Land which shall have been declared open for settlement as aforesaid, shall send in a written application to the Waste Land Board, under a sealed cover, with the words “ Application for Land” legibly written thereon, stating the number of acres such person is desirous of purchasing, and describing the same as accurately as may be, so that the same may be identified and marked on a plan of the district to bo provided by the said Board, 38. Every applicant shall at ten o’clock in the morning of the next business day after making such application, pay to the said Board the price of the land so selected by him, which price shall be after the rate of ten shillings an acre. 39. All such applications shall be opened at ten o’clock in the morning of the next business day after the same shall have been sent in, in the presence of the persons applying if they shall attend; and if it shall be found that there are two or more applications for the same piece of land, or any part thereof, sent in on the same day, the piece of land in dispute shall be put up for si}le by auction by one of the commissioners of the Waste Lands Board at the upi-t price of 10s, an acre, at ten o’clock in the morning of the fourth day, (and if such day be Sunday or Christmas day then on the following day) after the application for the same shall have been opened as aforesaid, and posted as hereinafter provided by section 70 ; at such auction the persons who applied for the land shall alone be permitted to bid. 40. Every such selection shall comprise not less than forty acres of land, and shall, so far as the features of the country will permit, be of a rectangular form, and when fronting on a river, road, lake, or coast, be of a depth not less than three times the length of the frontage : Provided always that undei special circumstances the saict Waste Land Board may permit pioprie1 60 acres.