NEW ZEALAND

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1908, 15 August 1863, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND

Conditions upon whicb land in the Waikato country, in the Province of Auckland, will be granted to volunteer militiamen willing to perform the aftermentioned military services.

1. No man above the age of 40 years will be accepted, and every applicant will be subject to an examination by an officer appointed by the Governor, and must produce such certificates of good character, health, and general fitness for the service, as such officer shall require.

2. Each accepted applicant will be required to sign a declaration and agreement to the effect that he understands and will be bound by and fulfil these conditions.

3. He will be enrolled and required to serve in the Militia in the Province of Auckland, and will be entitled to pay, rations, and allowances accordingly, until he is authorised by the Government to take possession of his land, when he wili be relieved from "actual service."

4. Settlements will be surveyed and marked out at the expense of the Government.

5. Each settlement will comprise not less than 100 town allotments and 100 farm sections.

• 6. A stockade on the most eligible site in each settlement will be erected at the expense of the Government.

7. A town will be laid out arouud or as near as conveniently may be to the stockade, in one acre allotments. 8. Farms will be hid out around, or as near as convenientij may be to the town. The size of tbe farm sections allotted to each will be according to his rank in the Militia : — j For a Field Officer 400 acres. " Captain 300 •' " Surgeon 250 " 18 Subaltern 200 " « Sergeant 80 " •• Corporal 60 «• " Private 50 " j 9. Every settler under these conditions, who upon being relieved from actual service, receives a certificate of good conduct, will be entitled to one town allotment and one farm section.

15. Priority of choice for each rank will be determined by lot. 11. After taking possession he "will be entitled to receive rations, free of cost for twelve months, upon the same scale as supplied to her Majesty troops ; he will be allowed to retain possession, as a militiaman, of his arms and accoutrements, and he will be supplied with arms and ammunition fot use according to militia regulations,

12. No settler after taking possession will b permitted during the first three years after his enrolment under these conditions to absent himself from his settlement for more than one calendar month in any one year, with»ut the leave of the Governor first obtained.

13. Daring; such three years he will be liable to be trained and exercised as other militiamen ; and whenever a portion only of the militia shall be called out for actual service each settler will be deemed to be a volunteer militiaman, ansi will be required to serve as such within the Province. During sucb service be will be entitled to the same pay, rations and allowances as other Militiamen.

14. On the expiration of three years from his enrolmenteach settler, having fulfilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant of the town allotment and farm section allotted to him ; and will thenceforth be subject only to the same Militia services as other colonists.

15. Any settler will be permitted to dispose of his land la any person approved of by the Government, and sudh person undertaking to be subject to the same liabilities will be entitled to the same privileges as the settler whose place he takes.

16. In case of the death of any settler before he shall have become entitled to his Crown Grant, the land to which he is entitled will be granted to his wife or children, or to such other person as he shall by writing appoint, or it may be taken by the Government for the location of another settler under these conditions, or for any other purpose ; but the value thereof in such latter case will be determined by valuation, and the amount paid by the Government to the settler's widow, or children, or other person appointed as aforesaid. FORM OP DECLARATION AN» AGREEMENT. I do hereby declare that I fully understand the " Conditions 1 ' hereunto annexed, and I do engage and agree to be bound thereby, and punctually on my part to fulfill all the terms thereof. «c _ Jt