AN ACT to provide for the Reinstatement A.D.1896.
of certain Persons as Purchasers of certain
Crown Lands, and for other purposes.

[26 November, 1896.]

BE
E it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania,
by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and
House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:-

1 The Commissioner of Crown Lands may, with the consent of the Governor in Council, reinstate the persons named in the Schedule (1.) hereto as purchasers of the several areas set opposite to their names, subject to the provisions of "The Crown Lands Act, 1890," and there upon such persons shall be liable to pay all instalments due upon such lands at the date of forfeiture, and all instalments thereafter due thereon, together with the amount of fine and charges for cost of advertising as provided in Section Seventy-one of the said Act.

Provided, that no such reinstatement shall continue of any effect after the First day of January, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, unless all instalments now overdue, together with the amount of fines and charges as aforesaid, shall have then been paid.

2 It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to permit the persons named in the Schedule (2.) hereto to complete the purchase of the several areas set opposite to their names, upon the following conditions:1. That the purchaser or selector pays the prescribed expense of surveying such land.

II. That such land shall be selected in accordance with the Regu-
lations under the said Act.

Certain persons whose land has

been forfeited

may be reinstated as purchasers.

Certain person may be permitted to complete purchase of land.

A.D. 1896.

Purchase money may be applied wholly towards payments for portion of land selected.

Immigration

Certificate issued to Martial Mary may be accepted

as part payment of purchase money on other lands.

When land

abandoned same to be deemed Crown land.

Crown Lands Selection.

3 In every case in which the purchaser or selector is permitted to avail himself of the provisions of the last preceding Section, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands to apply the full amount of the money paid by such purchaser or selector upon all the land originally purchased in and towards the payment of the purchase money due and owing upon the area set opposite to the name of such purchaser or selector in said Schedule (2.) hereto in accordance with the provisions of the said last preceding Section, notwithstanding that the whole or any portion of such land and all or any part of the money paid as instalments thereon have been declared to be forfeited to the Crown.

4 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in The Immigration Act, the Commissioner may accept an Immigration Certificate for Thirty acres issued to the Reverend Father Martial Mary under the provisions of The Immigration Act as part payment of the purchase money of Forty-nine acres and Two perches of Crown Land in the Parish of Goshen, County of Cornwall, which land was originally selected by John Pritchard and transferred by him to the said Reverend Father Martial Mary.

5 Whenever any part of any land selected or purchased from the Crown has been abandoned by the selector or purchaser thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the portion of the land so abandoned shall for all purposes be deemed to be Crown land, and shall be subject to the provisions of "The Crown Lands Act, 1890.”

AN ACT to further amend The Constitution A.D. 1896. Act.

[Reserved, 26 November, 1896; Royal Assent proclaimed, 30 April, 1897.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to further amend The Constitution PREAMBLE.

Act in the manner hereinafter mentioned:

Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

18 Vict. No. 17.

1 This Act may be cited as "The Constitution Amendment Act, Short title. 1896, No. 2."

2 Sections Four, Five, Six, and Seven of "The Constitution Repeal. Amendment Act, 1884," are hereby repealed: Provided this repeal 48 Vict. No. 54. shall not affect anything lawfully done under the authority thereof, nor any rights acquired or liabilities incurred thereunder.

3 Every male person, of the age of Twenty-one years, being a Qualification of natural-born or naturalized subject of Her Majesty, or who has Electors for the received Letters of Denization or a Certificate of Naturalization, Council. Legislative