VOLUNTEER LAND CLAIMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1512, 14 March 1882, Page 2

VOLUNTEER LAND CLAIMS.

The following article from the New Zealand Times of the Bth inst. will be of considerable interest to those oi our readers who may contemplate sending in claims to the Volunteer Land Scrip Commission : — Touching the sitting Land Claims Commission, we may state, for the information of those concerned, that in 1865 the Volunteers Land Act, 1865, was passed, empowering Superintendents, with consent of Provincial Council, to grant scrip not exceeding £30 to every efficient Voluntee after five years' service, and an additional £5 for every six months' actual service against the enemy. This Act was adopted in the Provinces of the North Island as follows :—Wellington, in 1867 ; Taranaki, in 1872 ; Hawke's Bay, in 1868 (for two years only) ; and in Auckland, in 1869. By the Volunteers Land Act Amendment Act, 1867, Volunteers enrolled prior to Ist January, 1866, were deemed to be "efficient." By the Volunteer Land Act. 1865, Amendment Act, 1873, Provincial Councils were empowertd to repeal any laws they had passed under the Act of 1865 — not to affect volunteers who had completed one or more years' service ; all claims to be made within twelve months of the passing of the act. This was acted upon by the province of Wellengton in 1869,by the Act to Amend the Volunteer Free Grants Act, 1867, but the privilege was afterwards extended to men enrolled before 30th September, 1872. The Waste Lands Administration Act, 1876, repealed all acts granting scrip, except as concerned volunteers who had completed three years' service ; claims to be barred unless made within twelve months in the case of those already entitled, or of six months in the case of those who might hereafter become entitled. By the Volunteers and Others Lands Act, 187/, volunters enrolled in Wellington between the 2nd "April/ 1869, and 30th September, 1872, became entitled to 3crip, and it further extended the time allowed for making claims by the Act of 1876% the 3dth April, 1876. The Crown Lands Sale Act,. 1877, extended, the time for exercising scrip to 30th April, 1877, "provided tHe scrip'was held by the yolun : teeW .'/ ,, H J , " „','.', ",„' t , ,

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