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Wellington Independent, Volume VII, Issue 656, 24 January 1852, Page 4

{From the Government Gazelle, Jan. 17.)

■•' Colonl/il Secretary's Office, ;•' Wellington] 13/ A January, 1852. 'In reference to the Despatch from Earl Grey, and the Terms of Purchase of Lands in the New Zealand Company's Settlements, published in tho Government . Gazette of the 13th instant, His Excel- • lency has been pleased to direct the pub's lication'of tho following docutnonts for ; s furthor information :— 1. Extracts ~from despatches showing the opinion of tlio Law Adrisers of the •Crown in (alluded to in tho 2nd paragraph*.of Efrl Grey's despatch of the Bth August "1831 , ,) as to the Terms of Purchase in force in the Company's ' Settlements at the time of the surrender ■of its Charter, and consequently established by tho recent Act of the 14th and :15th Victoria, c 86. 2. Despatches from Earl Grey to Go- : - vernor Grey of the 31st May 18-51, rela- «■•• ting to the definition by his Excellency ■> of the boundaries of tho different Settlements established >by the New Zealaud * Company. 3. The slst clause of the Act of the ~ 9th and 10th Victoria,-c. 382, entitled ", An Act to-facilitate the execution of *•■ Conveyances and- other Instruments by •or on behalf';? the New "Zealand Company in New Zealand."—being the clause to in the xth section of; tho re-,-centAct]of the I4thaud 15th Victoria,c.B6. By His Excellency's Command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary.

v'Extrdcts from enclosures to Mr. Hawcs' letters to Mr.'Attorney General, and to : Mr. Solicitor-General, of .the. 19th of August 1850—and of "ikeir reply to Earl Grey. i-Earl Grey is desirous of obtaining advice on the following points:— Ist. Whetherin your opinion, the terms of Purchase of August 1849, constituted on the -6th'of tfuly 1850, a contract then subsisting m regard to a part of the land of the"Company in the Colony. 2nd -Whether if they did constitute ; such a contract; it is one to .which the : land in question remains legally or equitably subject in tho hands of Her Majesty ' as demesne lands of the Crown. ■v* - * * ■ '".Lincoln's Inn, \Qth Dec, 1850.' i Iα obedience to your Lordship's com maud we' have considered the-case and the several documents transmitted to us, . and have the honor to report that ■■• ■■■■■*.-■ * ..,* ? Ist; 2nd, and 9th, We are of-opinion ; that the terms of purchase of August constituted onvsth-July 1850, a • -coutract-then subsisting'in ■ regard to a ■ part of the land of the Company in the ? Colony, and that the land in questioui ja'emains at Law.and in Equity subject to!

such contract in the hands of Her Majesty as Demesne Lands of the Crown. r<ii^ a A\ f John Romilly. (Signed) J A . E>CocKBBBN ,