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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume L, Issue 27, 17 October 1840, Page 2

GOVERNMENT NOTICE. / Police Office, Port Nicholson, 12th October, 1840. NOTICE TO SAWYERS & OTHERS. NO SAWYER or other person will be permitted to cut timber or erect houses on any native reserve. No Sawyer or other person will be permitted to cut timber on any other land, without the written permission from the owner of such land, the permission to be also signed by the Police, Magistrate before it can be acted upon. Any person found, (after this notice,) breaking the foregoing regulations, will be apprehended and punished according to law. MICHAEL MURPHY, Chief Police Magistrate. GOVERNMENT NOTICE. Colonial Secretary's Office, Russell, Bay cf Islands, 17th Sept., 1840. IN pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the Governor and Council of New South Wales, passed on the fourth day of August, and intituled "An Act to empower the Governor of New South Wales to appoint Commissioners WITH CERTAIN POWERS TO EXAMINE AND REPORT ON CLAIMS TO GRANTS OF LAND IN NEW Zealand," his Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that all persons claiming to be entitled to grants of land in the islands of New Zealand, by purchase from the Native Chiefs, or individuals of the Aboriginal Tribes inhabiting the same, are hereby required t,o set forth in writing, addressed to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, the particulars ot such claims with as little delay as possible, in order that the same may be submitted to the consideration of the Commissioners who are to be appointed under the above-mentioned Act. The applicants should set forth as fully as possible the situation and extent of the land claimed, and every other particular in their power relative to the grounds of their claim. And all persons claiming to be entitled to land at New Zealand, are distinctly warned that, under the conditions of the 4th clause of the Act in question, all claims except as therein excepted, which may not be preferred to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, as herein directed, on or before the 4th day of February next, will be absolutely null and void. By his Excellency's command, (For the Colonial Secretary,) JAS. STUART FREEMAN. GOVERNMENT NOTICE. Colonial Secretary's Office, Russell, 17th September, 1840. HIS EXCELLENCY the LIEUTENANTGOVERNOR has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Act, passed by the Governor and Council of New South Wales, on the fourth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty, for general information. By his Excellency's command, (For the Colonial Secretary.) JAS. STUART FREEMAN. ANNO QUARTO. VICTORIA REGINjE. No. 7. By his Excellency Sir George Gipps, Knight* Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief ot' the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with advice of the Legislative Council. An Act to empower the Governor of New South Wales to appoint Commissioners with certain powers, to examine and rePORT on Claims to Grants of Land in New Zealand. WHEREAS in various parts of the Islands of New Zealand, comprehended withPreamble. { n the limits of the Territory and Government of New South Wales, Tracts or Portions of Land are claimed to he held by various individuals, by virtue of purchases or pretended purchases, gifts or pretended gifts, conveyances or pretended conveyances, or other titles, either mediately or immediately from the Chiefs or other individuals of the Aboriginal Tribes inhabiting the same; and whereas no such individual or individuals can acquire a Legal Title to or permanent interest in any such Tracts or Portions of Land, by virtue of any gift, purchase or conveyance by or from the Chiefs or other individuals of such Aboriginal Tribes as aforesaid ; and whereas her Majesty hath, by instructions under the hand of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, dated the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, declared her Royal will and pleasure not to recognize any Titles to Land in New Zealand which do not proceed from, or are not, or shall not be allowed by her Majesty; and whereas it is expedient and proper to put beyond doubt the invalidity of all Titles to Land within the said Islands of New Zealand, founded upon such purchases or pretended purchases, gifts, or pretended gifts, conveyances or pretended conveyances, or other titles from the said Uncivilized Tribe , or Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand : Be it thereAll Titles to & re declared and enacted by his Land in New Excellency the Governor of New Zealand abso- South Wales, with the advice of low 3 " "eS the , Legislative Council of the said IZSL aTaS Colony, That all Titles to Land in or may be al- New Zealand which are not, or lovred by her may not> hereafter he, allowed by Majesty. £„ Majestyt are> and ghaU absolutely null and void. (Governor may appoint Commissioners to examine and report on Claims to Grants of Land in New Zealand.) 11. And whereas her Majesty hath, in the said Instructions, been pleased to declare her Majesty's gracious intention to recognise claims to Land which may have been obtained on equitable terms from the said Chiefs or Aboriginal Inhabitants of the said Islands of New Zealand, and which may not be prejudicial to the present or prospective interests of such of her Majesty's subjects as may resort to, or settle in the said Islands ; and whereas it is expedient and necessary that, in all cases wherein Lands are claimed to be held by virtue of any purchase, or conveyance, or any other title whatfloever froni the said Chiefs, or Tribe*, or any