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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 590, 29 March 1851, Page 4

Her Heirs, and Successors, shall be pended, and of no force and effect, wit? the Province of New Munster, in th» J? Colony of New Zealand, until the fifth of July, in the Year one thousand ei?!l hundred and fifty, and during suchfuja time as shall be directed by Parliament •'! And whereas Parliament has made n such further direction as aforesaid. Bn( j J said recited Instructions are therefore now ' force in the Province of New Munster: ’ And whereas it is by the said Act fufA provided " That if the Directors of the J Company shall give notice to one of Ju Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of s ta( within three calendar months next after th said fifth day of April, one thousand e Uu hundred and fifty, by any Instrument the Seal of the Company, that they ready to surrender the Charters of the said Company to Her Majesty, and all claim and title to the Lands granted or awarded to them in the said Colony, all the powers amj privileges of the said Company, except such I as shall be necessary for enabling the Dire c . I tors to receive the several sums ofjngnj,,| hereinafter mentioned, and to same among the shareholders and other sons entitled thereunto, and for I Directors co adjust and close the affairs of | the Company, shall cease and determine, I and all the lands, tenements, and heredij ments, of the said Company, in the Ba jj| Colony, shall thereupon revert to, and fol come vested in Her Majesty as purtofthel Demesne Lands of the Crown in New ZeJ land, subject, nevertheless, to any contract) which shall be then subsisting in regard J anv of the said Lands : I

And whereas the Directors of the Neil Zealand Company did on the fifth daym July last past, give to the Right Honorabhß Earl Grey, Our Principal Secretary of State| for the Colonies, such notice as in pursuance of the above recited proriß sions: ! And whereas on the giving of such no.B tice as aforesaid all the lands, tenement!,! and hereditaments, of the said Company a I New Zealand reverted to and became vest.! ed in Us as part of the Demesne Lands dg the Crown in New Zealand, subject, never.! theless, as aforesaid, to any contracts which| were then subsisting in regard toanyoftbel said lands. i And whereas certain contracts have been! entered into between the New Zealand Com-a pany and certain bodies of settlers, and! others, in regard to Lands in New mods- b ter aforesaid, namely, with the settlers at| Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth,! and the Associations of Otago and Can-| terbury. And whereas it is apprehended that Ibej provisions contained in the thirteenth chap-g ter of the said Instructions are, in certain] respects, inconsistent with the said contractij between the New Zealand Company anil the said respective settlers and Associations:| And it is expedient that the said Instag lions should be repealed, so far as regard!| the Lands comprised in, or affected hytkj said contracts, as far as the same may kg inconsistent with the said contracts respec-g tively or any part thereof. P Now therefore know you that We harcl revoked and determined, and do by tbesj Our Instructions under Our Sign Manai| and Signet, revoke and determine so mudg and such part only of the thirteenth cbafi ter of the said Instructions as relates tg the Lands comprised in, or affected by, wg aforesaid contracts between the New Z®| land Company and the settlers at WelM ton, Nelson, and New Plymouth, and tk| Associations of Otago and Canterbury, so far as the same may be inconsistent w j the said contracts respectively or any p B ® thereof. ,j And we do hereby declare that the sa; j contracts respectively, or any in such contracts which may hereafter made by and between Us Our Heir 3 3 j Successors, or parties on Our or Their “j half lawfully authorised, and the said bo respectively, are and shall be in force gards the Lands comprised in, or aff ec I by, the said contracts. . . I Provided always that on the exp' ra or sooner determination of any such c I tract, the regulations comprised in the -1 thirteenth chapter of the said r f c * j J structions shall again become and rerny « force as regards the Lands comprised in> j affected by, such contract. I V. R. J