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Kumara Times, Issue 1336, 12 January 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REGULATIONS BESPECTTUG AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER " THE MINES ACT, 1877." HKECULBS ROPINSON, GOVERNOR. TfIEREAS 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 faom time to time to make, alter amendand rvoke rules and regulations for all or any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: and whereaß 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 regulations under Appendix B particularly referred to above Bhall be and are hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lietf 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 beirig! 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 servant of or a trustee for any other person. & Objections that the the applicant is not of the full age of twenty-one yean, of that he is In respect of the land applied for tie 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 18 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 objeoting 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 Revenue either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by both, aa may be decided by the Warden. GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE LEASE RE SERVED. . IS. On issuing any certificate the Warden •hall forthwith forward to the Governor a 'duplicate of suoh certificate, and notwithstanding the issue Of the same, it shall be lawiul 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 ' supp certificate) and immediately upon such refusal being communicated to the applicant, either person ally or by letter addressed to hini 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 shajl forthwith quit and deliver up possession of the Baid land, and failing his so doing he may be proceeded against as a trespasser on Grown lands. PQNDJTIOIJ Olf vtflflYAynox. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b» Bnbjeot to the conditions following, that is to say—1. That no Bale or assignment shall bt made without license. 8, 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. 8. That the leasee shall, within two years after the commencement of the term, erect a dwelling-l-ouse of a value of not less than fifty pounds sterling, and that within the same ""-"ripdlie shall begin to reside an the id, apd continue so to do until the land becomes freehold. ( Building and residence may be dispense with in; the case pi ap applicant who resides during the currendy of the lease within three miles of the land applied for. Bulldingß and residence may also be dis. part of the land is declared by the District gurveyor tie be of a greater altitude above jej> level than two thousand feet, SCHEDULE B. Distriot ot , 18 Whereas the application of for an agricultural lease of prown lands, situated , was beard before mo on }8 I and whereas I have derided that a lease of acres roads perches should be granted to the said applicant: This is to certify that the said is ; fceveby authorised to take possession of the arid land, ; and the same to hpld, use, and 9?j°y* subject! tp the terms aad conditions ions in force at the date of the Issue fcetfof/ Warden, f1.8,-This.certificate is to be exchanged for * leasp when the said is notified ; that«nch'lesse js ready for his acceptance, ; gnd will become void if the said is notiM that a, lease wiU not be granted to fctov NQT TfIANSfSR^BLE. As witness the of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of Jfune one thonsand. hundred