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D.—No. 3.

With reference to the second class, Small Farmers, to them the conditions marked B will apply. With the exception of the conditions of selection within throe months, actual residence within the district, and the grant of a .rather larger quantity o\ Land, they are much the same as those under the system »f Emigration now in operation in accordance with the provisions of the Auckland Land jieguJaMoas. It is, however, indispensable that persons going out under these conditions should also he very carefully selected, and that they should possess some Capital beyond that which is required to pay their Passage Money. You must, therefore, adopt such measures as you think best to satisfy yourself on this point, before you grant a Land Order. You are hereby appointed Agent to issue Land Orders under the conditions referred to. H i:\dku Wood. Archibald Clark, Esq.. 110, West Kegent Street, Glasgow. Sub-enclosure 1 in No. 11. Conditions A. applicable to Mechanics, Artisans, Miners, Labourers, &c. 1. Every applicant will be subject to an examination by an agent appointed by the New Zealand Government; and he most produce such certificates of good character, health, and general fitness at such agent will require! 2. Each accepted applicant, with his family, will be provided, at the expense of the Government of New Zealand, with a free passage to Auckland, and from Auckland to the settlement where he may be located. 3. AV'hen any applicanti a accepted a deposit of £1 for every male, and Ids. for every female, above the age of 15 years, will be required, and the value thereof will be expended in providing bedding for the voyage. In case the applicant does not present himself at the time and place of embarkation, due notice of which will be given, the deposit will be forfeited. 4. Settlements will be sun eyed and marked out at the expense of the Government of New Zealand. 5. Each Settlement will comprise Town, Suburban, and Farm Sections. (i. Every settler, on his arrival at his destination, will be entitled to one Town Allotment, and to one 10-Acre Suburban Section ; and if he should, within three years, repay to the Government one-half his own passage money and that of his family, he will be entitled, in addition to one 10-Acre Farm Section, to one 5-Acre Farm Section for each child above 12years old. 7. Every settler will be required to be in possession of his land within three months of his arrival, and, after taking possession, no settler will be permitted during the first three years to absent hiinselffrom his district for more.than one calendar month in any one year without the leave of the. Governor of the Colony first obtained. 8. On the expiration of three years from his arrival in the Colony, each settler having fufilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant for the land allotted to him. 9. Any Settler will be permitted to dispose of his Land to any person approved by the Government ; and such person, undertaking to be subject to the same conditions, will be entitled to the same privileges as the Settler whose place he takes. 10. In the case of the death of any Settler before he shall have become entitled to his Crown Grant, the Land to which he is entitled will be granted to his wife or children, or to such other person as he shall by writing appoint, or it may be taken for the location of another Settler under these conditions, or for any other purpose ; but the value thereof, in such latter case, will be determined by valuation, and the amount paid by the Government to the Settler's widow or children, or other person. appointed as aforesaid. Sub-enclosure 2 in No. 11. Condititions B, applicable to Small Farmers. 1. Every applicant will be subject to examination by an agent appointed by the New Zealand Government, and he must produce such certificates of good' character, health, and general fitness, as such agent shall require. 2. Every accepted applicant will receive from the agent a Land Order, granted according to the following scale : —For any person eighteen years of age and upwards, fifty acres. For any person upwards of twelve years, and under eighteen years of age, twenty-five acres. Provided always that in any ease in which a child under eighteen years of age shall accompany a parent, the Laud Order shall be granted to the parent, and not to the child; and in any case in which a servant shall be brought into the Province of Auckland, at the sole expense of a master, the allowance shall be made to the master and not to the servant. 8. No such Land Order shall be transferable, but in the event of the death before the expiration of the three years, as hereinafter mentioned, of any person to whom any Land Order shall have been granted in respect of his own emigration, all his right and interest under such order shall vest in his appointee constituted in writing, or, in default of his appointee, in his legal representative, who shall be at once entitled to a grant of the land, if all the terms and conditions to which such deceased person was subject have been fulfilled up to the time of his death.

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