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allowance so, recommended as aforesaid shall in no case exceed double the pension in like case awarded to persons of corresponding rank in Her Majesty's regular Forces, as set forth in the scale in that behalf provided by Royal Warrant bearing date the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
If recommendation be confirmed by Governor, pension to be granted.
4.Upon the confirmation of any such recommendation as aforesaid by the Governor or other the Officer Administering the Government of the Province for the time being, duly notified in the Government Gazette, the person in whose favour such recommendation shall have been made shall be entitled to receive the pension or other allowance so to be awarded to him as aforesaid.
Chargeable upon general revenue of Province.
5.All such pensions or allowances shall issue and be payable out of the general revenue of the Province, and shall be paid monthly, viz., on the first day of every month in every year, and the acquittance or receipt of the person to whom such pension or other allowance shall be so awarded shall alone be a sufficient discharge for the payment of the same: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time to stop the payment of any such pension for such and the same causes as pensions held by persons having served in Her Majesty's regular Forces are liable to be forfeited.
No. IV.
Crown Titles. An Ordinance Quieting Titles to Land in the Province of New Ulster. [25th August, 1849.]
Preamble.
Whereas since the Proclamation of Her Majesty's sovereignty in and over the Islands of New Zealand various Laws Ordinances Royal Letters Patent and Instructions have from time to time been in force relating to the disposal by the Crown of lands within the Colony, prescribing the terms and conditions on which such lands should be alienated and disposed of, and limiting and appointing the power and authority of the Governor for the time being to make grants of the same in the name and on behalf of the Crown: And whereas during such period as aforesaid numerous grants of land within the Province of New Ulster have been made, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, by the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or other the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony or Province for the time being: And whereas in many cases doubts are entertained whether such Governor or other officer was duly authorized and empowered to make such grants in the name and on behalf of the Crown, and whether such grants were otherwise made in conformity with the regulations for the time being in force in that behalf: And whereas numerous grants of land claimed under the provisions of the Land Claims Ordinance (Session I., No. 2,) have also been made, wherein the land of which the grantee is recited to be entitled to a grant forms a part only of the whole quantity claimed to have been purchased by him from the aboriginal native owners, and is not particularly set forth and described in such grant, and it is doubtful in point of law whether by reason of such uncertainty any or what portion of land is validly conveyed by such grant: And whereas certain cases have already been submitted to the judgment of the Supreme Court, and it is