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their Report, and in its concluding recommendation that the Commissioner should " act with a vigilant eye towards the preservation of the public interest on the one hand, and the obligation to administer strict justice to the claimants on the other; and should manifest a desire that no wrong done to any one (however humble or powerless to enforce his rights) should be left without redress, yet that the property of the whole community should not be carelessly tampered with, or lightly squandered and frittered away." F. DILLON BELL. . Auckland, Bth July, 1862.

RETURNS APPENDED. 1. Statement of Surplus Land reverting to the Crown on the Settlement of Land Claims. 2. Statement of Unproclaiiied Lands over which the Native Title has been extinguished. 3. Return of all Land Claims, showing in detail the Claimants' names, the locality and extent claimed, the year in which the land was bought, the payments given to the Natives, the area surveyed, the way in which each claim was disposed of, the quantity of land awarded or granted, and the amonnt of Scrip, Money, or Debentures issued.

I.-STATEMENT OF LANDS IN LAND CLAIMS, REVERTING TO THE CROWN ON THE SETTLEMENT OF THE VARIOUS CASES.

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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER.

claimants' name. LOCALITY. NO. OF ACRES. George Clarke... "Children's Land" John King Joseph Matthews WiHiam Maxwell W. G. Puckey Henry Williams James Hamlin ... Wright and Grahame ... James Davis ... Benjamin Nesbit James Clendon... William. Baker... James Davis Thomas Joyce ... W. Powditch Taylor and Spark, and T. Graham James Shepherd Jamas Shepherd J. M. Orsmond Church Missionary Society John Ryder ... James Busby ... Wilson, Stack, and Brown ... Waimate Pateretere and Keri Keri ... Bay of Islands ... .. Doubtless Bay Kaitaia Kaitaia Bay of Islands (estimated) Manukau ... Kaipara Waimate Waimate ... Manawaora Wangaroa ... Mangatete, Kaitaia Wangaroa ... Wangaroa ... Waiheke Wangaroa") Keri Keri V 17,935 Waimate j Kawa Kawa and Kaitaia (estimated) Oruru River Bay of Islands (estimated) Opotiki 2,426 1,385 8,757 5,229 8,586 450 600 547 5,056 362 125 657 2,889 4,414 992 95 260 9,259 1,949 6,727 1,750 200 4,800 7,638 Carrried forward