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2. The price of the agricultural and pastoral lands shall not be less per acre than the valuation jtlready made in terms of Section 102 of " The Railways Construction aad Land Act, 18">1." The price of town and village lands shall not be less than £20 per acre, and of suburban lands, not less than £% par acre. 3. Sales of land may either be by auction or by application in writing. 4-. Agricultural land to Vie surveyed in sections not exceeding 1,000 acres each, with a practicable Hue of road marked off on the ground to each section. Bush to be felled on road lines one chain wide, and cleared 16 feet in the centre before the land is offered for sale. 5. Pastoral land—that is, the higher slopes on the hills —to be surveyed generally so far as the natural features will permit, in sections at least twice the depth to the breadth, the depth running back with the slope of the hills. Sand hills to lie deemed pastoral land, and may be surveyed in such areas as the Company may deem i>est. 6. Sites for towns and villages to be selected by the Company along the railway line at intervals not exceeding 10 miles, water and other circumstances being favorable. 7. Governor to have the right of selecting free of cost in each town and village, whether on land acquired by the Company as public grant, or by purchase from the Natives, an area not exceeding 3 acres for post and telegraph offices, courthouse, police station and other public buildings. Also an area not exceeding 5 acres for a school site. At cross roads or other suitable places in rural districts, Governor to have the right of selecting free of cost, five acres for a school site at distances t or 5 miles apart. 8. The survey of lands to be conducted on the New Zealand system of surveys, so that the plans traverse reductions, and field books may be conformable with the public survey records of the Colony, from which the descriptions of title are taken. 9. All record surveys and classification of agricultural and pastoral land to be subject to the approval of the Surveyor General or other officer nominated by him. James Prendergast. . Porster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council, 21st August, 1882.

SECOND SCHEDULE. Scale of Fares and Charges.—Vide New Zealand Gazette No. 87, October 24, 1881, pp. 1339-1374.

Authority: Gsohoe Djdsbury, Government Printer, Wellington.—lBB2

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