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Kumara Times, Issue 1352, 31 January 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REQULATION3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER •• THE MINES ACT, 1877." Hbhcctles Ropinsonv Govbrnob. rfIEBSAS 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 f Join time to time to make, alter amendand rvoks rules and regulations for all or any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: sod • 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 rulesi 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, am} eighteen, shonld be amended: Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand; do -hereby order that the regulations under 5 Appendix B particularly referred to above shall be and are hereby revoked, and the following substituted in Ilea 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 taint 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. 6. Objections that the the applicant is 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 shall 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 onnsel or agent. 10. At any time before finally dealing with any application the Warden may require a report or survey to be nvuie by th« District Surveyor, and in such case the cost of such survey or report shall be paid in advance to tbe Receiver of Gold Revenue either by the applicant or the objector, or partly by both, as mat be decided by the Warden. GOVERNOR'S PQWSR TO REFUSE LEASE BE SERVED. 18. On issuing any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to tho Governor a duplicate of such certificate, and notwithstanding the issue 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; ssch certificate; and immediately upon .j#ch refusal being communicated to tbe applicant either person ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place of bnsinesa or abpde, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely void, and the applicant shall forthwith quit and deliver up possession of the said land, a Pd failing his so doing he may be proceeded against as a trespasser on Grown lands. poNDrrioir ojt utMJOPATiqK. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b» subject to the conditions following, that is to say— L 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 she, or one-fourth pf the whole area substantially fenced within the same Wme. 9* Tnat the lessee shall, within two years after the commencement 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 so to do until the land becomes freehold. -Building and residence may be dispense with in the case of an applicant who resides {luring the currency of the lease within three miles of the land applied for. Buildings and residence may also be dispensed with in all oases where the major part pf, the land is declared by the District Surveyor to be of a greater altitude above level than two thousand feet, S,CHJJDULE B. District ot ,18 Whbrea? thp application qf for an agricultural leaee of Crown lands, situated ',, ~ was heard before me on 18 j and whereas J haye decided that a lease of acres. roads perohes Should be granted to the'said applicant: e possession of th. ssid land, and the same to hold, use, and ppjo£, subjects to the terms and conditions t the date of %he issue Warden. • N.B -This certificate is tp be exchanged fora-taase when the n- iA :-'■--*•-* . ,and will become void if the said is notified that a lease wijl not pe granted to HTQT KRABLE. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of Juns ope