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Kumara Times, Issue 1361, 10 February 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REGULATIONS, RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER “ THE MINES ACT, 1877.” N Hercules Ropinson, Governor. WHEREAS by the fifty-first section of “The Mines Act, 1877” (herein re{erred to aa “ the said Act”), it is enacted that it shall, be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of the said Act £tom, time to time to make, alter amendand rvoke rales and regulations for all or any of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: and whereas; by the fifty-tbird section of the said'Act it is enacted that the rules and regulatibns contained in the Appendices to the said Act shall be deemed to be the first rales and [regulations made nndor the fiftyfirst acid fifty-second sections of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the regnlatibhs] respecting agricultual leases nnder Appendix B to the said Act, and numbered three, five, ten, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, iimd. eighteen, should be amended: Now,' therefore, I, Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand; do hereby order that the regular tions 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 person ; and the Warden shall not entertain ahy application unless he satisfiedthabthepersou iaof the.full age of twenty-one. years, and legally capable of being bound ,by the contract into which it t thereby proposed, to enter, and is not in respeclrdf the 1 land applied for, or in respect of any. part rthereof, the agent or servant of or a trustee for any other person. OBKOTIONS. 5. Objections that the the applicant is not of the full age of twenty-one years, of that he: is i 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 portiop 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 Iddged 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-eport 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 the Governor a duplicate of such certificate, and notwithstanding the issue of the same, it shall bo lawful for tbd 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 s'jch refusal being communicated to the applicant, either person ally or by letter addressed to him- 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 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 Crown lauds. CONDITION OF OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b® subject to the conditions following, that is to say—. 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 commenoement of the : term, erect a dwelling-house of a value of not less than fifty pounds ' sterling, and that within the same period Tie 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 ease 0! an applicant who resides daring the currency of the lease within three miles of theland applied for. Buildings and residence, may also be dispensed with in all oases where the major part of. the land is declared by the District Surveyor to be of . a greater altitude above sea level than two thousand feet, SCHEDULE B< • District of——, 18 Whereas the application of for an agricultural-lease of Grown lands, situated , was heard before me on 18 ; and whereas 1 have decided that a lease of acres roads perches should, be granted to the said applicant: This, is to -certify that the said is hereby authorised to take possession of the ssid land., and the, same to hold, use, and enjoy, subjects to the terms and conditions specified in the Agricultural Leases Regulations in force at the date of the issue hereof. Warden, N.B.—This certificate is to be exchanged for a leaSe when the said is notified that such lease, is ready for his a> ceptance and 'frill become Void if the said jg 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 June one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine,}