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price shall always exceed the before-mentioned upset price of twenty shillings an acre, the amount of such excess being from time to time determined by such Proclamations as aforesaid in respect of the allotments contained in each of the said several classes of land. 28. It shall be competent to any person within three calendar months next after any such auction to become, without any further auction, the purchaser of any lands so put up to sale as aforesaid, and not then sold, by offering and paying for the same the upset price at which the same may have been so put up to sale. 29. Immediate payment in cash shall be the indispensable condition of every such sale as aforesaid whether effected at any such auction or upon any such subsequent purchase as aforesaid. 30. It shall be competent to the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of any such province as aforesaid to demise for any term of years (not exceeding twenty-one) any such rural allotments as aforesaid supposed to contain any valuable minerals, reserving to us, our heirs and successors, a royalty of not less than fifteen per centum on the minerals to be raised upon and from any such lands, and to introduce into any such lease all covenants necessary for the faithful discharge on the part of the lessee or those claiming under him of all the terms and conditions thereof. 31. A separate account shall be kept by the Treasurer of each of the said provinces of the gross proceeds of the said land-sales, rents, and royalties, and of all the costs, charges, and expenses of and incident in any way to the sale, survey, administration, and management of the said demesne of us in right of our Crown; and, after deducting from such gross proceeds all such costs, charges, and expenses, the net balance shall be by us held in trust for defraying the cost of introducing into the said respective provinces emigrants from the United Kingdom, or in trust for defraying the costs of such other public services therein as by us shall from time to time be prescribed by instructions to be issued in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament under our Signet and Sign-Manual, with the advice of our Privy Council. 32. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall interfere with the promulgation by us, as we may hereafter be advised, of any other and further Instructions respecting the occupation of lands forming part of the demesne of us, in right of our Crown in New Zealand, by way of lease or license for any term of years, or for any shorter time; but that such occupation, leases, and licenses, shall be regulated by such further Instructions as we shall hereafter for that purpose issue in pursuance of the said recited statute. 33. Provided also that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be considered as extending, to the temporary occupation of any lands forming part of the demesne of us in right of our Crown in New Zealand, by any person or persons so .occupying the same for the purpose of depasturing sheep or any other description of cattle thereon under any lease or license to be to any such person for that purpose granted; but that whatever relates to any such occupation of any such lands for any such purposes as aforesaid shall be regulated by such further Instructions as we shall for that purpose issue, and in the meantime by such Orders as shall in that behalf be made by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand.

Chapter XIV. Respecting the Aborigines of New Zealand. 1. The Governor-in-Chief shall, by Proclamation to be for that purpose issued, set apart, as he shall see occasion, particular districts of New Zealand under the designation " Aboriginal Districts." 2. Within such districts the laws, customs, and usages of the aboriginal inhabitants, so far as they are not repugnant to the general principles of humanity, shall for the present be maintained. 3. Within such districts such native chiefs or others as shall be appointed or approved by the Governor-in-Chief for that purpose shall interpret and carry into execution such laws, customs, and usages as aforesaid, in all cases in which the aboriginal inhabitants themselves are exclusively concerned. 4. Any person, not being an aboriginal native, and being within any such district, shall, during such his continuance therein, respect and observe such native laws, customs, and usages as aforesaid, on pain of such penalties for the violation or breach thereof as may be inflicted on him by the sentence of any Court or Magistrate in any other part of the province within which such aboriginal district may be situate. 5. The jurisdiction of the Courts and Magistrates of the entire province shall extend over the said aboriginal districts, subject only to the duty so incumbent on them of taking notice of and giving effect to the laws, customs, and usages of such aboriginal inhabitants as aforesaid in respect of all such cases as aforesaid. 6. In cases arising between the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand alone, beyond the limits of the said aboriginal districts, and in whatever relates to the relations to and the dealings of such aboriginal inhabitants with each other beyond the same limits, the Courts and Magistrates of the entire province, or of the district in which such cases may arise, shall enforce such Native laws, customs, and usages as aforesaid. 7. The Governor-in-Chief may from time to time contract or enlarge the limits of any such aboriginal districts ; but no such district shall ever comprise any lands which the Governor-in-Chief may by Proclamation have declared to be within the limits of settlement.

No. 7. (Confidential.) Copy of a Despatch from the Eight Hon. Earl Gbet to Governor Grey. Sib, — Downing Street, 20th November, 1847. I have had the honour of receiving your two confidential despatches of the 3rd and 13th of May. The reasons which you have urged in support of the conclusion to which you had come, that the Colony of New Zealand is not yet ripe for the enjoyment of representative Government, are such