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Kumara Times, Issue 1333, 8 January 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REGULATION 3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER •• THE MINES ACT, 1877." Hercules Ropinson, Governor. /"HEREAS by the fifty-first section of . . " The Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to aB •• the said Act"), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said Act fjom 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 sectioas of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the regulations respecting agricultual leases under Appendix 8 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 regulations 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 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 i thereby proposed to enter, and is not in respect of the land applied, for, or in respect of any part thereof, the agent or Bervant of or a trustee for any other person. 5. Objections that the the applicant is not of the full age of twenty-one years, of that he is in respect of the land 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 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 th« 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, GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RE SERVED. 13 On ispuing any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to tha Governor a duplicate of such certificate, and notwithstanding the issue of the Bame, it shall bt> law)ill for tbo 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 sicb refusal being communicated to tbe applicant either person ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place cf business or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely vnid, and the appli ant shall forthwith qu't and deliver up possesiiirn of the said laud, and failing his so doing he may bo proceeded aga'nst as a trespasser on Crown lands. coNorriOK ok occupation. 12. Every certificate and leise shall b» subject to the conditions following, that is to say—1. That no sale or assignment shall bt made without license. & 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 ODe-fourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time. ?. That the lessee shall, within two years after the commencement of the term, erect a dwelling-Louse 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 who resides dnring the eurrenoy of the lease within three miles land applied for. Buildings and residence may also be d's? pensed with in all cases where the major part of the land is declared bj the Dißtnct gurveyor to be of a greater altitude above j|ea leyel tb,an two thousand feet, SCHEDULE B. District ot ,1? Whereas the application qf for an agricultural lease of Crown lands, situated , was heard before me on }8 j and whereas I have decided that a lease of a,cres roads perches should be granted to the said applicant: This is. tp certify that the said is hereby authorised tp take possession of the said land, and the same to hpld, use, and sojoy. subjects to the terms aad conditions specified in" the Agricultural Leases Regulations in force at the date of the issue Warden, $.8.-This certificate is to be exchanged far a lease when the said is notifu d that such lease is ready for his a>ceptance, and will become void if the said is notified that a lease will not be granted to JTOT TRANSFERABLE. ■A? witness the band of Hjs Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of ,Junfl one thousand, e<gh,t hundred 11$ ??Tf>n^y-^^a,J