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Kumara Times, Issue 1332, 7 January 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDINH REGULA.TION3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER «« THE MINES ACT, 187 7." HERCPLESEoriNSON, GOVERNOR. 7HEREAS by the fifty-first section of . . " Tho Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to as '* the said Act"), it is enacted that it Bhall be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said Act fiom time to time to make, alter amend - and 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 Bhall be deemed to be the first rules and regulations made under the fiftyfirst and fifty-second gections of the said Act: And whereas it iB 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 MAT APPLY. 3. 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 > 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 i« 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 Bhall have been lodged twenty-four hours at least before the time appointed for bearing ■ 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 mide by the District Surveyor, and in such case the oost 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, GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RE SERVED. 13 On issuing any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to tho Governor a duplicate of such certificate, and notwithstanding the ißsue of the same, 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 refusal being communicated to the applicant either person:ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place of business or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely void, and the appli. ant 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 OV OOOr/PATION'. 12. Every certificate and le*se shall b» subject to the conditions following, that is to. say—1. That no sale or assignment shall bt made without license. ?, That not lesß than one-eighth of the whole area shall be cultivated, or, if [ timbered land, cleared, witbin twelve Uionth3 after the commencement of the, or ooe-fonrth of the wbole area substantially fenced within the same time. ?. That the lessee shall, within two ■ years after the commencment of the term, erect a dwelling-house of a yalue 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 iri thecase' of an applicant who resides during the currency of the lease within three miles of the land applied for. Buildings and residence may aho be dispensed with in all cases where the major part of the land jb declared by tie District gtirveyor to be of a greater altitude above jea level than two thousand feet, S^EDULEB. District ot , 18 Whereas the application of for an agricultural lease of Crown lands, situated , was heard before me on 18 j and whereas I have decided that a Jeaseof acres , roads perches should be granted to th« said applicant: This is to certify that the said iB hereby authorised totake possession of the ssid land, and the same to hold, use, and enjoy, subject* to the terips add conditions specified in the Agricultural Leases Regulations in force at the of %he issue hereof.' ■•■•.■-•■< Warden, N.B.'-"Thiß certificate is to be exchanged for a l«ase when the said i B notified that such lease is ready for his a( ceptance, and. will become void if the said is notified a lease will be granted to NQT tB,ANSjpERABLK. ; 4» witness Uhehand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June one thonßand hundred