GOVERNMENT NOTICES.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 28, 4 November 1842, Page 4

GOVERNMENT NOTICES.

(From the Government Gazette.) Colonial Secretary’s Office , Auckland, Sept. 27, 1842. Before a deed of Grant can in any case be issued, an actual survey will be necessary, in order that an accurate description of the Land claimed may be obtained, shewing its situation, boundaries, and extent, and such other particulars as maybe necessary for identifying the same. To expedite the final settlement of these Claims, and with a view to put the Claimants into possession with as little delay as possible, the conduct of the necessary surveys will not be confined solely to the Government Survey Department. Each Claimant who may be desirous of obtaining an immediate survey of his Claims, will be allowed to employ a private Surveyor, to be approved by the Surveyor-General on the following terms and conditions, and subject to such regulations as may from time to time be prescribed. The sum to be allowed for completing the survey by private contract, will be after the rate of three pounds for each linear mile. The Crown Grants will convey the number of acres, to which the Claimant shall have been found entitled. Should the boundaries marked out by the Contract Surveyor, at any time be found to contain a greater quantity of land than shall be contained in the Deed of Grant, the excess will be resumed. The particular portion of the land to be resumed, will be selected at the discretion of the Surveyor-General. No Reserves will in any case be required to be made, which shall not be absolutely essential to the interests of the Public.

Those Claimants who may intend to effect.the survey of their Claims by private contract, must give notice in writing, of such their intentions, to the Colonial Secretary’s Office, on or before the 31st day of March, 1843.