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occupancy, which may be henceforth made, shall be of any validity or effect, unless the same be so made to or entered into with us, our heirs and successors; and for the enforcement and due observance of this rule according to the true and full intent and meaning thereof, the Governor-in-Chief shall recommend to the said respective Legislatures the enactment of all such laws as may be necessary in aid of the powers by the said Act of Parliament or by us so vested in him as aforesaid: Provided that nothing herein contained shall apply to any such conveyance or agreement if made or entered into by any such aboriginal native or natives of New Zealand in respect of any lands by hint; her, or them holden in severalty or so holden under any title or tenure in use in and known to the law of England. 12. All the lands so ascertained as aforesaid to constitute the demesne of our Crown in New Zealand are and shall be holden by us, our heirs and successors, in trust for the benefit of our subjects, and especially for the benefit of such of them as have settled or shall hereafter settle within the said islands. 13. The said demesne land shall, by Proclamations to be issued by the respective Governors of the said provinces, be divided into counties, hundreds, townships, and parishes, each of which shall be exactly defined in such Proclamations with reference to such charts as aforesaid of the said islands. 14. No land of and belonging to us in New Zealand shall by us, our heirs or successors, or by any such Governor-in-Chief or other person on our behalf and on our authority, be alienated, either in perpetuity or for any definite time, either by way of grant, lease, license of occupation, or otherwise, gratuitously, nor except upon, under, and subject to the regulations hereinafter prescribed. 15. No part of the before-mentioned demesne lands of us, in right of our Crown in New Zealand, shall be alienated to any person or body corporate, unless the same shall be included within the terms of some Proclamation issued by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of the province within which the same shall be situate, declaring for three calendar months at the least next before any such alienation that such lands are thenceforward to be within the limits of settlement. 16. No such lands shall be so alienated unless the same shall have been previously surveyed, and distinguished by an appropriate numerical mark in the chart of the county, hundred, township, and parish within which the same may be situate. 17. The Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of any such province, with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, shall, in such charts as aforesaid, cause to be marked out and distinguished all such lands situate within and forming part of the demesne of the Crown as may appear best adapted for the site of future towns, and especially seaport towns, w Tithin the said islands; or as the lines of internal communication, whether by roads, canals, railways, or otherwise ; or as places fit to be reserved as quays, landing places, or otherwise for the general convenience of trade and navigation ; or as places of military or naval defence ; or as the sites of churches, courthouses, markets, hospitals, prisons, or other public edifices ; or as cemeteries, or as places fit to be reserved for the embellishment or health of towns, or for the recreation of the inhabitants thereof, or otherwise for any purposes of public utility, convenience, or enjoyment, in which either the whole population of the province or any large number of the inhabitants thereof may have a common interest: all which lands shall be called and be known by the name of reserved lands. 18. All such reserved lands, with the exception of such as shall be reserved as the future sites of towns, may, by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of the province in which they are situate, be conveyed to any body politic or corporate gratuitously, to be holden by them in trust for the public uses for which the same were so reserved, and for none other. 19. The lands reserved as the sites of towns shall be divided into two classes, of which the one shall be called " town allotments " and the other " suburban allotments," the town allotments being such as will probably become the future sites of buildings, the suburban allotments being such as will probably acquire a greatly-enhanced value from the close vicinity to such buildings. 20. All the demesne lands of us, in right of our Crown, brought by any such Proclamation as aforesaid within the limits of settlement, shall be alienated in manner hereinafter mentioned, and not otherwise, the same being, with a view to such alienation, divided into three classes, of which the first class shall consist of such town allotments, the second class of such suburban allotments as aforesaid, and the third class of rural allotments. 21. In reference to each town, and to the suburbs of each, the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of the province shall by Proclamation determine what shall be the number and the extent of the allotments therein, care being taken that in all such towns allotments be so made in reference to some convenient plan previously fixed for the erection of such town, and that no town allotments shall be greater in extent than will probably be required as and for the site of a single edifice, with such adjacent land as may probably be necessary for the use and enjoyment of the future occupants of such edifice. 22. No rural allotment within the said demesne shall exceed in extent one square mile; but it shall be competent to any such Governor or Lieutenant-Governor to divide any such allotment for the purpose of such alienation as aforesaid into allotments of one-half or of one-quarter of a square mile. 23. Rural allotments shall, by such Proclamations as aforesaid, be divided into such as are supposed and such as are not supposed to contain valuable minerals. 24. No part of the demesne of us, in right of our Crown in New Zealand, shall be alienated, either in perpetuity or otherwise, either absolutely or conditionally, until after the same shall first have been put up to sale at a public auction, of which auction three calendar months' notice shall first have been given by such Proclamation as aforesaid. 25. At every such public auction such lands shall be put up to sale in such lots as aforesaid, at a minimum upset price. 26. No rural allotment shall for the present be so put up for sale at any minimum price less than twenty shillings for each acre of land in each such allotment contained. 27. The respective minimum upset prices of rural lands supposed to contain such minerals, of suburban lands, and of town lands respectively, shall always be the same in respect of each separate allotment of the same extent comprised in any one of those several classes respectively. Such upset #-A. 3.