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Kumara Times, Issue 1335, 11 January 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDINO REOULATION3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER " THE MINES ACT, 1817." Hercules Ropinson, Governor. WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of "The Mineß Act, 1877" (herein referred to as " the said Act"), it ia enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said Act flora time to time to make, alter amendand rvbke 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 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 f 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 rot .of the full age of twenty-one years, of that he is in respect of the land applied for tbe : agent or servant of or tbe 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 tbe whole or in part auriferous, or is or is likely to be required for any public purpose, must be made in writing to the WatdeD, and lodged at the office at which tbe application snail 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 Be venue either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by both, aq may be decided by the Warden. GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RE SERVED. 13. On iscning 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 tbe 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 sach refusal being communicated to tbe applicant, either person ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place cf bnsineßS or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained Bhall become and be absolutely void, and tbe appli ant shall forthwith qut and deliver up possession of the said land, and failing his so doing he may be proceeded aga : nst as a trespasser on Crown lands. CONDITION OIT OCCUPATION. . 12. Every certificate and lease shall b» subject to 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, 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 She term, erect a dwelling-rouse of a value of not less than fifty pounds sterling; and that within the same lieriod he. shall begin to reside on the and, 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 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 land is declared by the District purveyor to be of a greater altitude above lea level than two thousand feet, SCHEDULE B. District ot , 18 Whereas the application of for an agricultural lease of Crown lands, situated ~ was heard before me on 18 ; and whereas I have decided that a lease of acres roads perches should be granted to the said applioaot: This is to certify that the said is hereby authorised to take possession of the ssid land,, and the same to hold, use, and Cpjpy. subject* to the terms and conditions specified in the Agricultural Leases Regulations! in force at the date of the issue hereof. Warden, This certificate is to be exchanged ;for a Jnase when the said is notified that snch lease is ready for his &• ceptance, and will become void if the said is notified that a lease will not be granted to him. NOT TRANSFERABLE. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of Jane one thousand hundred •ud seventy-nine,}