TERMS & CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT SURVEYS.

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

TERMS & CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT SURVEYS.

Any person desirous of contracting for Surveys, will make application to the SurveyorGeneral, who, after informing himself as to the qualifications of the applicant, will grant him a license. When such licensed surveyor is about to undertake a survey, his license will have to be deposited with the Surveyor-General, and will not be returned to him should his survey be found incorrect or defective. The following clause of the “ Land Claims’ Ordinance,” Session 11. No. 14, clause 5, will regulate the figure of the block of lands : “5. The land to be granted at the recom- “ mendation of the Commissioners, may be sc- “ lected by the person entitled to such a grant “ out of the land claimed by him : Provided that “ the land so to be selected shall be in one “ block, to be as nearly as possible a rectan- “ gular figure, the breadth of which shall not “ be more than half its length : Provided also, “ that when the block so to be granted shall be “ bounded by the sea, or a river, the rectangle “ aforesaid shall be so placed that the narrow “ side, or breadth, shall be bounded by the sea, “ or any such river, and that the length of the “ rectangle shall run back from the sea, or “ river, as near as possible at right angles to “ their general direction.” Scales. —The surveys to be laid down on the following scales, according to their extent: — Under 100 acres, 2 chains to,the inch. From 100 acres to 1000,5 chains to the inch. From 1000 and upwards, 10 chains to the inch.