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Kumara Times, Issue 1328, 3 January 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REGU L ATIO N 3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER “ THE MINES ACT, 1877.” Hercules Eopinson, 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 fiom time to time to make, alter amendand rvoke 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 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 Colony of New Zealand, do hereby order that the regulations under Appendix B particularly referred to above shall be and are hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof;— WHO MAY APPLY. 5. Every application must be made by the applicant in person; and the Warden shall not. entertain any application unless he satisfied that the person is of the full age of twenty-one years, and legally capable of being bound by the contract into which it f thereby proposed to enter, and is not in respect of the land applied for, or in respect pf any part thereof, the agent or servant of pr a trustee for any other person. eBEcnoNS, 6. Objections that the the applicant is not of the full age of twenty-one years, of 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 ot 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 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 punsel or agent. 10. At any time before finally dealing yitb any application the Warden may require a report or survey to be mtde by the District Surveyor, and in such case the cost of such purvey or report shall be paid in advance to the Receiver of Gold Revenue either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by both, gs may be decided by the Warden. GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RE SERVED. 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 lawful for the Governor within sixty day from the date thereof to refuse to grant it tjie applicant a lease of the land referred to in such certificate; and immediately upon S}ch refusal being communicated to the applicant either person ally op by letter, addressed to him at his nsual or last known place of business or abode, the certificate and mattpr and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely void, and the appli; ant shall forthwith qu't 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 OJf OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b« Subject to the conditions following, that is say— That no gale or assignment shall he made without license. 2, That not less than one-.eighth of the whole area shall ho cultivated, or, if timbered land, cleared, within twelve months after the commencement of tfie, or one-fourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time. 8. That the lessee shall, within two yeaps after the commencement of the term, erect a dwelliug-i.onse of a value of not less than 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 dispense with in the case of an applicant wbo resides paring the currency of the lease within three ppiles of the land applied for. Buildings and residence may also be dispensed with in jdl cases where the major part of the land is declared by the District gurveybr to be of a greater altitude above Jfp* level than two thousand feet, SCHEDULE B. ' District ot , 18 herkas the application of for an agricultural lease of Crown lands, situated , was heard before me on Jeiase of acres roads ’ perches should be granted to the said applicant: This ig to certify that the said is fiereby authorised to take possession of the gsid land, and the same to hold, use, and subjects to the terms and conditions Specified in'the Agricultural Lyases Regulations in force at the date of the issue hereof. Warden, N.B *7 This certificate is to be exchanged so* a lease when the said is notified that snch lease is ready for his a< ceptahce, Upd will become void if the said ia notified that a lease will not be granted to NO.Y TRANSIftCBAELB. witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of <Jnne one thousand e'ght hundred