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Kumara Times, Issue 1362, 11 February 1881, Page 4

GoTferament Notices. STAN DlKfl REGULATIONS 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 sa ‘ s the said Act”), it is enacted ipfetf 'it shall be lawful for the Governor, ■object to.the provisions of the said Act {longtime to time to make, alter amend* ; andrvoke roles end regulations for all or ''iktarbf thb purposes thereinafter enumerated: and'whereas by the fifty-third section of theHaid Act it ia eoacfced that the roles and the ahMl .be deemed to be the first 'ridesahd node under the fifty* □t*t ’Ahd ’ mty*se)Cond sections of the said Aotii And! whereas it is expedient that the regqiatiqnfl;;reapeoting agricultual leases under Appendix B to the -said Act, and numbered. throe, five, ten, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, ihd eighteen, should be amended: Nbw, therefore, I, Heresies George Robert Robjtnson, Governor of the Colonv of New Zealand, do hereby order that the regulations tinder Appendix B particularly referred to above shall be and are hereby revoked, andi the’following substituted in Ueu-tberspl :-rO .r ■ : WHO ifc AV APPLY. S.'Every application most be made by the Applicant ip . person ; and the Warden shall not anyapplication unless he ntisj|pd,that the person is of the foliage of tweut&One. years, and legally capable of the contract into which it j thi#eby> propofeed to enter, and is not in resgectolthe (and applied for, or in respect of any part thereof, the agent or servant of or a trustee for any other person. . / OBECTIONS, 5i Objections that the the applicant is not>of;t|pe 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 pnblio purpose, must be made in writing to the Warden, and lodged at the office at which the application shall have been lodged twenty-four hoars at least before the time appointed for hearing; and the person objecting must at the time appoints 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 snch 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 inning any certificate the Warden shall. forthwith forward to the Goveroor a duplicate of ,snch certificate, aod notwithstanding the issue of the same, it shall be lawtol ror the Governor within sixty day froip the date thereof to refuse to grant it the applicant s, lease of the land referred to in eh oh certificate; and. immediately upon such refusal being communicated to tbe applicant, either person ally or byletter addregsed to him at his usual or last known place. of bnalness or abode, the certificate and matter and thing therein contained shall become and be absolutely void, and the applicant shall forthwith quit and deliver op possession of the said land, and failing bis so doing he may be. proceeded against as a trespasser on Grown lands. CONDITION OF OCCUPATION. 12. Every certificate and lease shall b° ■abject 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 tlnae. - • That the lessee: shall, within two - i yeays after the commencement of the term, ereot 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 . Ignd, and continue so to do until the bepomes freehold. Budding and residence may be dispense with'in'the case of an applicant who resides during the currency of the lease within three miles of the land applied for. Buildings sndresidence may also be dispeqsed with -in all oases where the major park ofthe land is declared by the District gorveyor te be of a greater altitude above seadiVolAhaii two thousand feet, ~ . SCHEDULE B. ; District of---, 18 Whereas. the, application of, for an ■gricn|tnral lease- of Crown lands, situated 18 ■ 0 ; and whereas I have decided that a lease of' acres roads perches shopld^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 bold, use, and enjoy. • subjects: to the: terms and conditions specified,in.the Agricultural Leases Regnlations ln force at the date of the issue hereof. Warden, for a lease when the said is notified that snoh lease is ready for his acceptance, and .will become void if the said is noti§sd that a lease will not be granted to him. NOT TRANSFERABLE. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of Jane one thousand eight' hundred and seventy-nine,}