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New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 330, 19 July 1849, Page 4 (Supplement)

ninth and tenth years of Our Reign, intituled " An Act to make further Provision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands," We did by certain letters patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom, bearing date at Westminster the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in the tenth year of Our Reign, execute certain of the powers in Us by the said Act vested : And Whereas, in further pursuance of the said Act and exercise of the powers thereby in Us vested, and in exercise of all and every other the powers in Us in that behalf vested, We did further issue certain Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, approved in Our Privy Council, being the Instructions accompanying or referred to in such Letters Patent as relation being had unto the said Letters Patent and Instructions will more fully and at large appear : And Whereas it is directed by the Twenty-second Section of the Thirteenth Chapter of the said Instructions, being the Chapter entitled "On the Settlement of the Waste Lands of the Crown," that " no rural allotment within the said demesne shall exceed in extent one square mile ; but it shall be competent to any such Governor or Lieutenant- Governor to divide any such Allotment for the purpose of such alienation aforesaid into Allotments of one-half or of one-quarter of a square mile :" And Whereas it is further directed by the Twenty-fourth Section of the said Chapter, that " no part of the demesne of Us in right of Our Crown in New Zealand, shall be alienated, either in perpetuity or otherwise, either absolutely or conditionally, until after the same shall first have been put up to Sale at a Public Auction, of which Auction three Calendar Months' notice shall first have been given by such Proclamation as aforesaid:" And whereas it ia further directed by the Twenty-eighth Section of the said Chapter, that "It shall be competent to any person within three Calendar Months next after any such Auction to become, without any further Auction, the purchaser of any lands so put up to Sale as aforesaid, and not then sold, by offering and paying for the same the upset price at which the same may have been so put up to Sale:" And Whereas by the said recited Act it is enacted that it shall be lawful for Us from time to time to amend, and for that purpose to add to, or if necessary repeal any such Instructions as aforesaid: And Whereas it hath appeared to us expedient to amend our said Instructions by repealing the said recited provisions and substituting others for them respectively : — Now, therefore, by virtue of the power in Us by the said Act vested, We do hereby declare Our Will and Pleasure that the said recited provisions shall be, and they are hereby respectively repealed. And that in lieu of the said recited Twentysecond Section the following directions shall be and the same is hereby added to the saidlnstructions : — " It shall be competent for the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of any such Province, j with the advice of his Executive Council, to determine the size of Rural Allotments within the said demesne, provided that no such Allotment shall exceed the size of One Square Mile." And that in lieu of the said recited Twentyfourth Section, the following directions shall be and the same is hereby added to the said Instructions :—": — " No part of the demesne of Us in right of Our Crown in New Zealand shall be alienated, either in perpetuity or otherwise, either absolutely or conditionally, until after the same shall first have been put up to Sale at a Public Auction. And it shall be competent to such Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, with such advice as aforesaid, to fix the time at which any such Auction shall take place, provided that notice of such Auction shall be given by such Proclamation as aforesaid, not more than three months, nor less than one month, before the same shall take place." And that in lieu of the said recited Twentyeighth Section, the following directions shall be and the same is hereby added to the said Instructions: — " It shall be competent to any person, within three years next after any such Auction, to become, without any further Auction, the purchaser of any Lands so put up to Sale as aforesaid and not then sold, by offering and paying for the same rtie upset price at which the same may have been put up to Sale :—: — Provided always that it shall be competent foy such Governor or Lieutenant-Governor as aforesaid, with such advice as aforesaid, instead of permitting such lands to be so purchased by any person applying for them as aforesaid, to put up the same again to Auction, giving such notice thereof as is hereinbefore provided." V.R.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, K. C. 8., Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c, &c, &c. yfllj HERE AS an Act was passed in the " Session of Parliament holden in the sth and 6th years of the reign, oi Her present Ma-