1. No lands, whether town, suburban, or rural, shall be offered for sale by auction unless the same shall have been previously surveyed, and distinguished by a sufficient mark or number upon a plan to be deposited and exhibited in the Principal Land office.

2. All such rural lands as have already been proclaimed as open for selection and purchase under the Land Regu- page 155 lations heretofore in force and known as the General Land Regulations of the Province of Wellington, and dated the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the additional Regulations of the said province, dated the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, shall remain open for sale at the fixed price of twenty shillings per acre.

3. An intending purchaser of such last-mentioned lands shall make an application in writing to the Board for the purchase of the land which he may desire to purchase.

4. Such application must contain the name and description of the intending purchaser, and must be signed by him or his agent, and contain as accurate a description of the land applied for as may be reasonably possible.

5. All such applications for the purchase of land shall be lodged at the office of the Board between the hours of ten a.m. and three p.m. on all week-days other than Saturday; and on Saturday between the hours of ten a.m. and one p.m. All applications shall have priority according to the time at which they are received, and it shall be the duty of the Chief Commissioner, at the time of receiving any application, to mark thereon the hour and minute at which the same was received.

6. In case the Chief Commissioner shall be personally absent from his office at the time when any application shall be tendered, such application shall be provisionally received by the Clerk in the Land Office, who shall issue a provisional order or authority to the Receiver of Land Revenue to receive the purchase-money, and such application, followed by payment, shall give the applicant priority; but if the Board, on subsequent examination, shall discover that the said application, for some lawful reason, should not have been received, it shall be the duty of the said Board to reject the said application, and give the applicant notice thereof; and thereupon the purchase-money paid by the applicant shall be returned.

7. All applications for the purchase of land shall be forthwith entered in a book to be kept in the Principal Land Office, and to be called the "General Register of Applications for Land;" and such hook shall be open to the inspection of the public during the regular office hours, and any person may take a copy of or extract from such register.

8. All lands not being lands reserved from sale, or lands referred to in section two of this Appendix, shall be sold and disposed of by public auction at an upset price of not less than twenty shillings per acre, at such times, in such allotments, as the Board shall from time to time publicly notify.