No. 11.
[Extract from New Zealand Gazette.]
Duties Payable on Native Land Sales.—Scale of Charges.

Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Native Lands Act, page 321867," it is enacted that, in addition to the duties made payable by the fifty-fifth section of "The Native Lands Act, 1865," there shall be paid upon each first sale or other disposal, except by mortgage, of any hereditaments or Native land, for defraying the expenses of examining, connecting, and recording surveys under the said Act, an additional duty at such rates as the Governor in Council may from time to time, and with respect to any districts to be by him from time to time defined, order, not exceeding in any case the sum of 6d. per acre upon the land or hereditament sold or disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, doth order that such additional duty shall be paid on such first sale or disposal at the following rate— namely: On Native land included in one certificate of title which shall not exceed 100 acres in area, at the rate of 6d. per acre; exceeding 100 acres and not exceeding 500 acres, on the first 100 acres £2 10s.; on all exceeding 100 acres, 3d. per acre; exceeding 500 acres and not exceeding 2,000, on the first 500 acres £7 10s.; on all exceeding 500 acres, 2d. per acre; exceeding 2,000 acres and not exceeding 10,000 acres, on the first 2,000 acres £20; on all exceeding 2,000 acres, l½d. per acre; exceeding 10,000 acres, on the first 10,000 acres £70; on all exceeding 10,000 acres, Id. per acre: and doth further order that the Colony of New Zealand shall be a district in respect of which these rates shall be paid.