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HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES.

ENCLOSURES TO MESSAGE No. 12 FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT.

ORDERED TO BE PRINTED AUGUST 17TH, 1855.

CROWN TITLES ORDINANCE—Sess. 10, No. 4. I think this Ordinance, with the following amendments, might suffice to settle definitely the confused state of the Old Land Grants. All Grants without ai proper plan, signed by the Surveyor General, endorsed upon them, or not lodged for that purpose°in the Survey Office, before a fixed date, to become invalid. All Grants so lodged to have the quantity of land to which the Grantee is recited to be entitled, properly surveyed, and a plan of such Survey endorsed 'b'Tny Native Claims that might arise on such land, when proved to the Native Secretary, to receive compensation. ~, L - m The expense of such survey, and of the settlement of such Native Claims to be a charge upon the land which, in the event of non-payment before a ceitain time, must be forfeited to the Crown. „ The 12th clause regarding reservation of " Sacred Places, or other pieces not sold, to remain Reservations in Grants for Roads, Landing Places, to be made bv Surveyor-General. In cases where the Native Claims cannot be satisfied at all, or except at a rate which the Native Secretary deems exorbitant, the Government may give the Grantee a fair equivalent elsewhere. All parts of the Ordinance inconsistent with these amendments to be repealed. (Signed) W. Gisborne, Commissioner of Crown Lands. 20th July, 1855.