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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 15, 13 April 1867, Page 4

“ NATIVE LANDS ACT, 1866." NOTICE. Treasury, 'Wellington, 20th February, 1867. ATTENTION is called to Section XVI. of “ The Native Lands Act, 1866,” which enacts that—“ The duties’by the said Act (the Native Lands Act, 1865) required to be paid on each first sale or other disposal of the hereditaments or Native land therein mentioned, shall in any cases where die transfers, conveyances, leases, or other instruments affecting the «une have deen signed or executed before the passing of this Act, be paid before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and in other cases shall be paid within six calendar months from the day of the date of the signing or execution, or the day of the date of the deed of transfer, conveyance, lease, or other instrument, whichever day shall be prior in time; and if the person or persons from whom, under the provisions contained in the said “Native Lands Act, 1865,” any such duties shall hereafter be due to Her Majesty shall neglect to pay the same within such period as aforesaid, every such person shall be liable to pay as a penalty a sum •equal to three times the duty by the said Act made payable, in addition to the duties under the said Act, which penalty may be recovered summarily before any two Justices of the Peace, or may be sued for as a debt due to Her Majesty, by and in the name of the Colonial Treasurer, in any Court of competent jurisdiction. And if any person shall give information to the Colonial Treasurer whereby any hj penalty shall be recovered, he shall be rewarded by the Colonial Treasurer out of the penalty recovered, to such extent as the Colonial Treasurer shall think fit, but not exceeding one-half what shall be so recovered, and such penalty -so recovered, or so much thereof as shall not have been applied in rewarding any informer, shall be paid over to the credit of ‘ The Native Land Court Account.’ ” The duties so payable within the Provinces of Auckland, Hawke’s Bay. and Wellington, ■ should be paid into the Treasuries of those i Provinces respectively. I WILLIAM FITZIIERBEKT, |