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Kumara Times, Issue 1353, 1 February 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REGULATION 3 RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER " THE MINES ACT, 1877." Hercules Ropinson, Governor. W • "The Mines Act, 1877" (herein referred to aa " the said Act"), it ia enacted that it' shall be lawful for the Governor, subject' to the provisions of the said Act faom time to time to make, alter amend•and 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 eriacted 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 1 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, 1 and the /following substituted in lieu thereof:— ' .'WHO MAY APPLY. 3 livery application must be made by the applicant in person; and the : Warden shall not entertain any application unless he satisfied that the person ia of the full age of twenty-ope: years, and legally capable of being bound by the contract into which it t thereby proposed to enter, and is not in respect of the land applied for, or in respect of any thereof, the agent or servant 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 .applied for the agent' or servant of or the trustee for any other persoa, or that the whole or any portion ot the land applied for is claimed or owned by any other person than the Applicant, or iB in the whole or in part auriferous, or is.or is likely to be required 'for any publio purpose, must be made in writing to the Warden, and lodged at the "office at which the application Bhall 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 th* District Surveyor, and iu 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 issuing any certificate the Warden shall forthwith forward to thtr 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 such certificate; and immediately upon sich, refusal being communicated to the applicant: either person ally or by letter addressed to him at his usual or last known place of bnsineas or abode, the certificate and .matter and thing therein contained *%aH become and be absolutely void, and the applicant shall forthwith qu<t and deliver ap possession of the said land, and failing bis so doing he may be proceeded against as a trespasser on Crown lands. CONDITION OK OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b» subject to the conditions following, that is to say—1. That no sale or assignment shall bt made without license. 2. That not less than one-eighth of the whole area Bhall be cultivated, or, if timbered land, cleared, within twelve months after the commencement of the, or ODe-fonrth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time. 2. That 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 within 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 gurveyor to be of a greater altitude above qea 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 applioant: This ifi to.certify that the said is hereby authorised to take possession of the ssidland,; arid the same to hold, use, and enjoy, eubjecta to the terms aad conditions specified in. the Agricultural Leases Regulations in force at the date of the issue hereof. Warden. N.BrrTbls certificate is to be exchanged for, a lease when, the said iB notified that such'lease is ready for his acceptance, and ' wiH become void if the said is notified that a lease will not be granted to him. HOT .TRANSFERABLE. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June one thonsand hundred »q 4 seventy-nine,}