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REGULATIONS UNDER " THE GOVERNMENT ADVANCES TO SETTLERS ACT, 1894." Glasgow, Governor. Obdee in Council. At the Government House, at Wellington, this third day of December, 1894. Present: His Excellency the Goveenoe in Council. In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority vested in him in and by " The Government Advances to Settlers Act, 1894," and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the several regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth declare that such regulations shall come into force and take effect on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette. Schedule. 1. " The said Act " means "The Government Advances to Settlers Act, 1894." "The Superintendent" means "the Government Advances to Settlers Office Superintendent" under the said Act. "The General Board" means "the Government Advances to Settlers Board" under the said Act. "The Advances to Settlers Office Account," and "the Advances to Settlers Office," mean respectively "the Government Advances to Settlers Office Account" and "the Government Advances to Settlers Office." " The Bank" means the Bank appointed by the Governor under section 46 of the said Act to keep " the Advances to Settlers Office Account." 2. The Advances to Settlers Office shall be situated at the seat of Government, in such premises as the Colonial Treasurer from time to time directs. 3. The office shall be open for public business daily from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., except on Saturdays, when it shall close at 1 p.m., and it shall not be open at all on Sundays, -Good Friday, and Christmas Day, nor on such other days or times as shall be duly declared or appointed by Government to be public holidays. 4. The General Board shall meet for the despatch of business at such times and in such offices as shall be appointed by the Superintendent or by adjournment of a previous meeting. 5. Where the members present at a meeting of the General Board are equally divided on any question, the question shall be resolved in the negative. 6. There shall be a seal of the Advances to Settlers Office, which shall be of a circular form, of the diameter of one inch and one-half of an inch, having the Eoyal Arms, with the words " New Zealand" underneath, in the centre, and around the same the words " Government Advances to Settlers Office," iti Eoman letters, -Jin. in length; and a new seal maybe made, with the consent of the Colonial Treasurer, as occasion shall require. The seal shall be kept at the Advances to Settlers Office, and in the custody of the Superintendent, under lock. 7. The minute-book in which the proceedings of the General Board shall be recorded shall be kept under the direction of such Board, and the minutes, when duly read and confirmed, and duly signed by the Chairman, shall be receivable as primd facie evidence of the various matters set forth in such minutes. 8. The cheques signed by the Superintendent on the Advances to Settlers Office Account shall be deemed to be sufficiently countersigned by the Audit Office in being countersigned by an Audit Officer, whose signature the Auditor and Controller-General may authorise the Bank to accept. 9. The amounts payable within the colony out of the Advances to Settlers Office Account may be forwarded by the Superintendent to the Postmaster-General, to be paid by such Postmasters as the Superintendent may request, and as the Postmaster-General may authorise or direct to make such payments, and the Postmasters shall pay such amounts accordingly. 10. Every claim upon the Advances to Settlers Office must be made in the form and rendered in the manner required by the Superintendent. 11. Any person making a lodgment with a Postmaster of money payable to the Superintendent, or to the Advances to Settlers Office Account for credit of that account, shall enter and furnish the Postmaster, in two copies of the form required by him, with the particulars of the lodgment, and the Postmaster shall sign and deliver back to such person in acknowledgment of the receipt of the lodgment one of the two forms. 12. In any case which is not provided for by the said Act, or by the regulations thereunder, the special instructions of the Superintendent must be applied for and followed. 13. The Manager of the Bank shall make up at the close of business every day the passbook of the Advances to Settlers Account, and send the same to the Superintendent, and at the same time send to the Auditor-General a statement showing the total receipts into, payments out of, and the balance of such account at the close of each day. 14. The mark of any payee unable to write, and the mark or signature of every Maori, must be witnessed by a person who, not being the paying officer or agent, is conversant with the English language. 15. A claimant unable personally to apply for payment may, by a special or general order on the form which the Superintendent may supply for the purpose, authorise the payment to be made to an agent. The special order shall be on or attached to the claim, but the general order shall be recorded in the Advances to Settlers Office, and quoted on each of the claims to which it may apply. 16. In the case of a special or general order given by a Maori not conversant with the English