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Kumara Times, Issue 890, 7 August 1879, Page 4

AMENDING REGULATIONS RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER " THE MINES ACT, 1877." Hercules Robinson, Governor. HEREAS by the fifty-first section of » » "The Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as " the said Act"), it i 8 enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, Bubject 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 said Act it is enacted that the rules and regulations contained in the Appendices to the said Aet shall be deemed to be the first rales 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 Colony 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 APPLT. 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 iB of the full age of twenty-one yeara, 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 any other person. 5. Objections that the the applicant is not of the full age of twenty-one years, or that he is in respeot of the land applied for the agent or servant of or the trustee for any other persoa, 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 the Warden, and lodger) 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 onnsel 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, as may be decided by the Warden. GIUimNG 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 application 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 survey fees have not been paid by tho 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 date with such receipt, from which date the commencement of the term of the lease (if a lease be granted) shall be taken and computed. GOVERNOR'3 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 Bame, it shall be lawful 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 such 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 of bnsineas or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely void, 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. CONDITION OF OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall be subject to the conditions following, that is to Bay—1. That no Bale 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, within twelve months after the commencement of the, or one-fourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time. 2. That the lessee shall, within two years after the commencement of the term, erect a dwelling-house of a value of not less th»n fifty pounds sterling, and that within the same period he shall begin to reside on the land, and continue so to do until the land becomes freehold, Building and residence may be dispensed with in the case of an applicant who resides during the currency of the lease within three miles of the land applied for. Buildings and residence may also be dispensed with in all cases where the major part of the laDd is declared bj the District gurveyor*to be of a greater altitude above sea level than two thousand feet. SCHEDULES* District of ,18 J Whereas the application for an