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Kumara Times, Issue 1343, 20 January 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING RBGULATION3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER “ THE MINES ACT, 1877.” Hercules Ropinson, 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 from 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, dp 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. 3 Every, application must be made by the applicant in portion; and the Warden shall not entertain any application unless he satisfied that the person is of the fall 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 fur, or in respect of any part thereof, the agent or servant of or a trustee for any other person, OBJECTIONS, , s.,Objections that the the applicant is opt of the full age of twenty-one years, of tbat he is in respect of the land applied for the auent 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 pnblio purpose, must be made in writing to the Warden, and lodged at the office at which the application shall have been lodged twenty-fonr 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 onnsel 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 Revcnne either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by both, as may be decided by the Warden, GOVERNOR'S POWER TO REFUSE ERASE RE SERVED. 13 On ipspiiig any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to tho Governor a duplicate of snob certificate, and notwithstanding theiesne of the same, it shall be Jawiulfor the Governor within sixty day from the date thereof -tp refuse to grant it the applicant a lease of the land referred to 'ln such certificate; and immediately upon refusal being g;>mtnunicated to the applicant either person ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place r.f business or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained sbalj bepppop and be 'absolutely void, and the applicant 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 Orown lands. OV OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b» pnbject to the conditions following, that is $Q say—1. That no sale or assignment shall ho made without license. 3. That not less than one-eighth of the Whole area shall h e cultivated, or, if timbered land, cleared, within twelve paonths after the commencement of the, or onerfourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time, 2. Thfit the lessee shall, within two years after the pouimeneeiueat of the term, erect a dwelling-house 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 sq to do until the land becomes freehold. Building and residence may be dispense With in the case of an applicant who resides during the cprrepcy of the lease within three {pile? Pf thp land applied for. Buildings and residence may also be dispensed with in qll cases where the major part of the Iqnd is declared by the District gnrveyor to be of a greater altitadp qbove leyel than two thousand fecti SCHEDULE BDistrict ot , 18 Whereas the application of for an Sgricuftoral lease of Grown lands, situated , wee heard before me on . 18 1 apd whereas I have decided that a lease of acres roads perches Should be granted tp the said applicant: p»is is tp cprtify that the spid i 8 hereby-authorised tp take possession qf the said Iqnd, and thp same to hold, usei and pUjoy, subjects tp the terms and conditions Specified in the Agricultural Leases Regulations in fprpe $t the date of the issue Warden. N.B - This Certificate is tq be exchanged fora lease when the said is' notified thst snpb lease ja ready for bis a-epptapee, Spd will become void if thp said is notified that s lease will not be granted to NOT TRANSyERARLR, £.3 witness the hqnd of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of Jane ope thonsaqd eight hundred gevpp|y.njne^’