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Kumara Times, Issue 1370, 21 February 1881, Page 4

Government Notices. STANDING 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 toas “the said; Act”), it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, subject : to'the provisions of the said Act time to' time to make, alter amendandrvoke roles and regulations for all or Shy of the purposes thereinafter'enumerated: Rod whereas 'by the fifty-third section of the said Act itda enacted that the rules and regulations, contained in the Appendices to the said Aet shall be deemed to be the first Ttli&And made under the fiftyfirst 'aid fifty-second sections Of the said Aot: /And ■, whereas. it is expedient that the regulations., respecting agricultual leases nndpr* Appendix ,B to the said Act, and iiiikberOa threej five, ten, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, and eighteen,' should be amended: i). INoW, therefore, 1| Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor of the Colony of New dp hereby order that the regulatiohis under Appendix B particularly referred to abovfe 1 shall be and are hereby revoked, and the following, substituted in ligg thereof. Uliil J WHO MAY APPLY, 1 3. Every application mast be made by the applicant in person:; and the Warden shall not entertain pny application unless he 4atisfiecl‘that the person is of the full age of iwehty-onb ’ years, - and : '. legally capable of being bound by the Contract into which it !■ i (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 bP A trustee for any other person, OBEOTIONS. ■ 5. Objections that the the applicant is nqt of the. fall age of twenty-one years, of that he Is in respect of the land applied for ihe afeent or servant of or the trustee for any othet 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 anriferons, 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 hearingj and the person objecting must at the time appointed for hearing urge the objection personally, or by onnsel pr-agent. 10. At any time before finally dealing with any application the Warden may require a report or snrveyto be made by the District Surveyor, and in such case the oust of such survey or report shall bp 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 R! - , ' SERVED. 13. On issuing any certificate the Warden shall, forthwith forward to the Governor s duplicate of such certificate, and notwithstanding the the same, it shall bt lay?lull for; tbet Governor within sixty daj from tb® jlate, thereof to refuse to grant ii tffiei applicant alease of the land referred tc in such' 1 certificate- and immediately upon such .refusal 'being communicated to the applicant., either perspn 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 dellvei up possession of the said land, and failing his so doing lie may he proceeded against ai a - trespasser on Crown lands. ' 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 witbont license. 9, That not less than one-eighth of the wbolearea 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 - . r ' time. :• .. ■ 2. That the lessee shall, within two years after the commencement of the term, - Oredt a dwelling-house of a value of not less than fifty pounds sterling, and that within the same j : : period, he shall begin to reside on the ~ ; laud, apdeontinuo so to do until the - ' laM becomes freehold. Hußding and residence may be dispense With in the caae of an applicant who resides dimngitiie currency' of the lease within three miles of the land applied for. , Bpildings and residence may also he dispensbd with m all oases where the major part of 1 the land* is declared by the District gurveyor to be of a greater altitude above JfU,lpyel than two thousand feet, SCHEDULE B, District ot ,18 Whereas the application of for agricultural lease of Grown lands, situai ~■> was l heard' before me on 18: jj and .uthefeas I .have decided thaf lease of acres roads porol should' be grarited to the said spplicai Tins is to certify that the said hereby authorised to take possession of 1 ssid iand, andthe:same to hold, use, a subjects to the terms and conditit specified in the Agricultural Leases Rego tidns In force at the date of the to hereof. - Warden, N.8.--This certificate is to be exebang fora lease when the said is notifi that such lease..'is ready for. his aiceptani Mid prill become void if the said notified that a lease will not be granted blm; - ' :! ' NOT transferable. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June'-one thousand eight hundred : Uttdseyanty-ninc*