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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 63

Exception Clause in the Native Lands Act, passed, by the General Assembly in 1862. — "X. Extraordinary Provisions

Exception Clause in the Native Lands Act, passed, by the General Assembly in 1862.

"X. Extraordinary Provisions.

"LXXXII. And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled 'The Land Orders and Scrip Act, 1858,' it was provided that in certain cases within the Province of Wellington, holders of Land Orders issued by the New Zealand Company, and purporting to grant certain rights of selection, should be entitled to select land in respect of such Land Orders within any blocks of land laid out by the New Zealand Company for selection at Manawatu, or elsewhere, within the said Province, whenever the Native title to such blocks should be extinguished; and by the same Act, it was further provided that if the Superintendent of the said Province should set a part, or reserve out of any of the said blocks, lands for a township or otherwise, as in the said Act mentioned, then, and in that case, the holders of such Land Orders should be entitled to select land in respect thereof, out of any land laid out as rural land within any district, the Native title whereto should at the time, or within two years afterwards, be extinguished. And whereas by reason of the indefinite extent over which the rights of selection so conferred as aforesaid, may be held to run, disputes may hereafter arise as to how for such rights would interfere with the operation of this Act; and for the Impose of preventing such disputes, it is expedient to define and limit the exercise of such rights in manner hereinafter mentioned.

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"Be it enacted, that all rights of selection by the said Act conferred upon; the holders of Land Orders of the New Zealand Company, within the Province of Wellington, shall be exercisable within the block of land called 'The Manawatu Block.'

"Bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of Ohau River, and passing with a bearing 99° to the Tararua and Ruahine Ranges to the source of the Oroua River, thence by a line bearing 282° to the Rangitikei River, thence by the Rangitikei River to the sea coast, thence by the sea coast, to the commencing point.

"Whenever the Native title to the said block shall have been ceded to Her Majesty, and not otherwise or elsewhere, and the said block shall accordingly be and be deemed to have been excepted from the operation of this Act."