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Kumara Times, Issue 1368, 18 February 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING REGULATIONS RESPECTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES UNDER “ THE MINES ACT, 1877.” Hercules Ropinson, Governor. WHEREAS by the fifty-firat 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 r bom time to time to make, alter amendand rvoke rales and regulations for all or * lahy of the purposes thereinafter enumerated: and; whereas by the fifty-third section of ...{he said Act. It is enacted that the rules and 'regulations contained in the Appendices to ' ! the, said Act Shall be deemed to be the first ! ' rules and regblationa made under the fifty : first: and fifty-second sections of the said Act:; And whereas it is expedient that the regulations respecting agricultual leases ' ttodet Appendix 6 to the said Act, and nnmberedthree, five, ten, twelve, thirteen, / fifteen, and eighteen, should be amended: Now, therefore, I, Hercules George Robert : Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby order that the regulatidhfl tinder Appendix B particularly reJ ferrsd to above shall be and are hereby and the following substituted in lien thereof:— , WHO MAY APPLY, ■-; 11 3/j Every application must be made by the r applicant in-person j and the Warden shall not entertain any application unless he ; satisfied that the person is of the full age of tWbuty-one 'years, and 1 legally capable of ‘ being ! bound by the contract into which it to enter, and is not in respeet of the land applied for, or in respect pi any' part thereof, the agent or servant of ' Or atiuSteefor any other person. . I;, . OBBCTIOIrSi ' 5.. Objections that the the applicant is , opt 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 . pprtion .ot the land applied for is claimed or owned by any other person than the appli- ' tont.br is in the whole or in part auriferous, - or id' 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 : 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 ease the cost of such surrey 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 ahallforthwith 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 rafuto, to grant it the applicant a' lease of the land referred to! ih such Certificate; and immediately upon such refusal being, communicated, to tfae appficaqt., either personally or by letter ad-! dressed to him at his usual or last known Plato of' business or abode, the certificate| arid matter and thing therein contained : BbaUj'become and be absolutely void, and . ‘.Mia applicant shall forthwith quit and deliver >P possession of the said land, and failing hlt'so doing he may be proceeded against as a trespasser on Crown lands. i, ; CONDITION OF OCCUPATION. 12,;Every certificate and lease shall b« .■object to the conditions following, that is tossy—1, That no sale or assignment shall he, 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 ‘the, or one-fourth of the whole area substantially fenced within the same time. . 2. That the, lessee shall, within two yeus after the commencement of the term, erect a dwelling-house of a value of not less than fifty pounds .... sterling, anA that within the same period be 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 during the currency; of; the lease within three miles. of the land applied for. Buildings and residence may also be dis- ' PWtoA with in all cases where the major {tort of the land is declared by the District gurveyor to be of a greater altitude above level tfaan two thousand feet t :,v ; ; SCHEDULES. District of , 18 Whereas the application of for an 'agricultural lease of Crown lands, situated , was heard before me on and whereas I have decided that a lease of.; acres . roads perches .shtmld be grarfted to the said applicant: This is to certify that the said is hereby authorised to take possession of the -ssid'lwid, and the same to hold, nse, and enjoy, snbjects to tfie terms and conditions B Ptoi®®d in. the Agricnltdral Leases Regulations In force at the date of the issue hereof. Warden, N-8,--This certificate is to be exchanged fora lease when the said is notified that snch lease is ready for his acceptance, «nd,{ jvul become void if the said i B notified that a lease will not be granted to ; ' KOT TRANSFERABLE. A* witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of I June one thousand eight hundred find seventy-nine,)