I do myself the honor to forward to you, herewith enclosed, a copy of certain new Rules, which it is proposed to make under the authority of the 'Native Land Act, 1873,' for regulating the times and places for the sittings of the Courts, and for fixing the rates to be charged for surveys made for the purposes of the same.

"I have to request that you will peruse them, together with the schedules, respectively marked A and B, appended, and return them to me, signed by yourself, unless you shall see reason to dissent from any particular therein.