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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 7

Part II

Part II.

Special Settlements.

Repeal.

17. The second section of "The Wellington Waste Lauds Act 1870" is hereby repealed.

Blocks may be set apart for special settlement.

18. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington with the advice of his Executive Council by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, to set aside out of the Waste Lands within the Province of Wellington the Native title of which has been extinguished, any block or blocks for the purpose of special settlement, not exceeding in the whole one hundred thousands acres, on such terms as may be sanctioned by the Governor in Council, anything in the existing regulations for the management or disposal of the Waste Lands in the Province to the contrary noth withstanding. Provided always that no land shall be sold at a less price than land of a similar description is now sold at under the regulations aforesaid, and that the proceeds thereof shall be subject to any lien already imposed thereon by any Act of the General Assembly.

Limitation of time for which blocks shall remain set apart.

19. Neither the whole nor any part of any block of land so set aside, shall continue so set aside for a period of more than three years from the date of the Proclamation whereby the same shall be set aside, nor be again set aside under this Act. But every contract made with respect to any such block or any part thereof, whilst the same remains so set aside, shall be performed, notwithstanding that the block has ceased to be so set aside.

Superintendent may contract for settlement of blocks.

20. It shall be lawful for the said Superintendent with such advice as aforesaid, from time to time to contract with any person or persons, page 26 company or companies, that such person or persons, company or companies, shall with respect to the whole or any part of any one or more of the said blocks of land, place upon any land with respect to which such contract shall be made, persons desiring to settle thereon. Provided that the person or persons, company or companies, with whom such contract shall be made, shall be bound thereby to perform and observe and to cause the persons placed by them upon such land to agree to perform and observe, the terms sanctioned by the Governor in Council under this Part of this Act and the provisions of this Part of this Act.

Superintendent may employ agents.

21. The said Superintendent with the advice of his Executive Council may from time to employ the Agent-General of the Colony in Great Britain, for the purpose of entering into any contract or contracts under this Part of this Act, and for the purpose of contracting with persons desiring to settle upon any land set apart under this part of this Act, and to delegate to the Agent-General all or any of the powers by this Part of this Act conferred upon the Superintendent and upon the Superintendent with the advice of his Executive Council, except the power of setting aside land by Proclamation and all or any of the powers which under the terms sanctioned by the Governor in Council may be vested in the Superintendent and in the Superintendent with the advice of his Executive Council; and may from time to time terminate the employment of any such Agent-General and the delegation of all or any of the powers to be delegated under this Act. Provided that no such employment or delegation shall he terminated until notice thereof shall have been sent to the person employed or to whom such delegation shall have been made, and a sufficient time shall have elapsed for such notice to be received by him in the ordinary course of post.

Commission for negotiating sale.

22. The Superintendent of the Province of Wellington for the time being, may with the sanction of the Agent-General allow to any person who shall negotiate, or shall since the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one have negotiated the sale to any person not resident in the Province of Wellington of any land under the First Part or the Second Part of this Act, or under the regulations for the time being in force for the sale, letting, or occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the said Province, a commission at such rate not exceeding five pounds per centum on the amount of the total purchase money paid or agreed to be paid upon such sale as he shall think fit, and such commission shall be paid forthwith after the sale out of the deposit or purchase money as the case may be, upon the warrant of the said Superintendent.