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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1670, 19 April 1862, Page 3

* And be it enacted and ordained, That in hearing and examining all claims to Grants as aforesaid, and reporting on the same, the said Commissioners shall be guided by the real justice and good conscience of the case, without regard to legal forms and solemnities, and shall direct themselves by the best evidence they can procure or that is laid before them, whether the same be such evidence as the Law would require in other cases or not; And that the said commissioners shall, in every case, inquire into and set forth, so far as it shall be possible to ascertain the same, the price of valuable consideiation, with the sterling value thereof, paid for the Lands claimed, to any of the said Chiefs or Tribes, or any Aboriginal inhabitants or inhabitant of the said Colony of New Zealand, as well as the time and manner of the payment, and the circumstances undei which such payment was made, without taking into consideration the price or valuable consideration which may have been given for the said Lands by any subseque.it purchaser or to any other person or persons, save such Chiefs or Tribes, or Aboriginal inhabitants or inhabitant as aforesaid; and shall also inquire into and set forth the number of acres which such payment would have been equivalent to, or according to the rates fixed in the schedule marked B, annexed to this Ordinance: And if the said Commissioners, or any two of them, shall be satisfied that the person or persons chiming such Lands or any part thereof, is or are entitled according to the declaration of Her Gracious Majesty as aforesaid, to hold the said lands or any part thereof, and to have a Grantor Lease thereof, made and delivered to such person or persons under the Great Seal of the said Colony, lliey, the said Commissioners, shall report the lame, and the grounds thereof, to the said Governor accordingly, and shall state whether the claim or claims reported on is or are original or derivative, with the name or names of the party or pailies to whom the Grant or Lease should issue, and shall set forth the situation, measure.nen', and boundaries by which the said Lands, or portions of Land, shall or may be described in every such Grant or Lease, so far as it shall be possible to, and they conveniently can, ascertain the sime: Provided, however, that no Grunt i.f Land .-hill he recommended by the .aid Commisiiouert, which shall exceed in extent two thousand five kundred and sisty acre*, unlets specially authorised thereto by ft? ftOV«n« r i *ift <!»S sl.\i 3 . ?f ft* F.S»'?V\UY| Cfi'efcfJl.