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Additional Instructions 1850 (no.2) [1850] NZConLRes 2 (12 August 1850)

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Additional Instructions 1850 (no.2)

Victoria R.

Additional Instructions to our Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor-in-Chief for the time being: To our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Ulster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being : To our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being: or to our Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Lieutenant-Governor for the time being : or to our Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Lieutenant-Governor for the time being. Given at Our Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, this twelfth day of August, 1850, in the fourteenth year of Our-reign.
Whereas, by the Thirteenth Chapter of certain Instructions under our Signet and Sign Manual, approved by our Privy Council, and accompanying certain Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of our United Kingdom, bearing date the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, provision was made respecting the settlement of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the two Provinces of the Colony of New Zealand, and therein respecting the Sales of the said Lands, and respecting the reservation thereon of certain Rents and Royalties: And whereas the thirty-first clause of the said chapter is in the words following, that is to say :—

"Thirty-first. A separate account shall be kept by the Treasurer of each of the said Provinces of the gross proceeds of the said Land Sales, Rents and Royalties, and of all the costs, charges, and expenses of and incident in any way to the sale, survey, administration, and management of the said Demense of Us, in right of our Crown, and after deducting from such gross proceeds all such costs, charges, and expenses, the net balance shall be by Us held in trust for defraying the cost of introducing into the said respective Provinces Emigrants from the United Kingdom, or in trust for defraying the costs of such other Public Services therein, as by Us shall from time to time be prescribed by Instructions to be issued in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament, under our Signet and Sign Manual, with the advice of our Privy Council:"

And whereas, by the said Letters Patent, We did reserve to Ourselves, Our Heirs, and Successors, full power and authority to amend, and for that purpose to add to, or, if necessary, repeal the said Instructions :

And whereas it is expedient that the hereinbefore recited clause of the said Instructions should be amended:

We do therefore declare, by these our Instructions, given under our Signet and Sign Manual and approved in our privy Council, that so much of the said recited clause as prescribes the mode of expending the net balance therein referred to, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that the said net balance shall be by Us held in trust for defraying the cost of introducing into the said Colony Emigrants from the United Kingdom, or in trust for defraying the costs of such other public services in respect of the said Colony as shall be from time to time prescribed by or in pursuance of any Instructions issued by Us, under Our Signet and Sign Manual, and approved by Our Privy Council.

And whereas, by virtue of certain Proclamations issued or to be issued within the Colony of New Zealand, certain parts of the said Colony have been or may hereafter be divided into Hundreds:

And whereas it may be expedient that part of the proceeds arising from the sale of Crown Lands within the said Hundreds should be applied in such manner as may be specified by the Wardens or other proper authorities thereof:

We do hereby further declare, That it shall be competent for the Governor or Officer administering the Government of the said Colony, to authorize the application of any proportion not exceeding one-third of the gross proceeds of the sales of Crown Lands effected within the limits of any such Hundred, towards such purposes as shall be signified to him by the Wardens of such Hundred, or by such other authorities thereof as shall be designated for that purpose by any Ordinance to be passed by the Legislature of the said Colony, subject nevertheless to such restrictions and regulations as shall be imposed by such Ordinance.


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