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Kumara Times, Issue 876, 22 July 1879, Page 4

Government Notices AMENDING REGULATIONS RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER " THE MINES ACT, 1877." Hbbouues Robinson, Governor. WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of " The Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as " the said Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said Act, from time to time to make, alt er amend, and revoke rules and regulations for all or any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: And whereas by the fifty-third section of the Biid Act it is enacted that the rules and regulations contained in the Appendices to the said Act shall be deemed to be the first rules and regulations made under the fiftyfirst and fifty-second sections of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the regulations respecting agricultual leases under Appendix B to the said Act, and numbered three, five, ten, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen, should be amended: Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor of the Colonv of New Zealand, do hereby order that the regulalations under Appendix B particularly referred to above shall be and are hereby revoked, and the following substituted in liea thereof : WHO MAY APPLY. £?3. Every application must be made by the applicant in person ; and the Warden shall not entertain any application unless he is satisfied that the person is of the full age of twerty-one years, and legally capable of being bound by the contract into which it is thereby proposed to enter, and is not, in respect of the land applied for. or in respect of any part thereof, the agent or servant of or a trustee for arv other person. OBECTIONS. 5. Objections that the the applicant is not of the full age of twenty-one years, or that he is in respect of the land applied for the agent or servant of or the trustee for any other person, or that the whole or any portion of the land applied for is claimed or owned by any other person than the applicant, or is in the whole or in part auriferous, or is or is likely to be required for any public purpose, must be made in writing to tfra WardeD, and lodged at the office at which the application shall have been lodged twenty.four hours at least before the time appointed for hearing; and the person objecting must at the time appointed for hearing urge the objection personally, or by ounsel or agent. 10. At any time before finally dealing with any application the Warden may require a report or survey to be made by the District Surveyor, and in such case the cost of such survey or report shall be paid in advance to the Receiver of Gold Revenue either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by both, aB may be decided by the Warden. GK> NTTNG CERTIFICATE. 12. If no valid objection as aforesaid be made, and no reason be known to the Warden why the application should not be granted, or if on hearing such appliration he shall decide that a part only of the land applied for should be granted, he shall require the applicant to pay to the Receiver of Gold Revenue a sum, calculated in the case where Burvey fees have not been paid by the applicant at the rate of three shillings per acre, and in the case where survey fees have been paid by the applicant at the rate of one shilling and sixpence per acre of the land intended to be granted ; and such payment shall cover all charges in respect of such grant, inclufive of rent for the first six months of the term ; and upon production of the Receiver's receipt for the above sum to the Warden, he shall give to the applicant a certificate in the form of Schedule B hereto, bearing even da f e with such receipt, frnm which date the commencement of the term of the lease (if a lease be granted) shall be taken and computed. governor's power to refuse lease reserved. 13. On issuing any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to the Governor a duplicate of such certificate, and notwithstanding the issue of the same, it shall be lawiul for the Governor within sixty day from the date thereof to refuse to grant it the applicant a lease of the land referred to in Buch certificate; and immediately upon such refusal being communicated to the applicant either personally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place ff business or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely vnid, and the applicant shall forthwith quit and deliver up possession of the said land, and failing his so doing he may be proceeded against as a trespasser on Crown lands. 15. Rent at the rate of three shillings per acre per annum shall be payable half yearly during the term, and at the time of the execution of the lease rent shall be paid up to the first day of January or the first day of July, as the case may be, from the date up to which payment shall then havo been made; and thereafter the rent shall be payable by equal half-yearly payments in advance, on the first day of January and the first day of July in every year; and the payment hereinbefore required at the time of granting a certificate shall be deemed to include payment of rent for the first six monthß of the term, and for the purpose of computing rent every fractional part of an acre shall be considered as an acre, and every fractional part of a month shall be considered a month, and shall be respectively charged for accordingly. CONDITION OF OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall be robjecUo the conditions following, that is 1. That no sale or assignment shall be made without license. 2. That not less than one-eighth of the . whole area shall be cultivated, or, if timbered land, cleared, wiihin twelve months after the commencement of the, or one-fourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time. 2. That the lewee shall, within two | yeara alter the commencement of the I