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Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 707, 17 August 1859, Page 6

Provincial Secretary's Office, Chvistchurch, AugUHt 9,1859 IN accordance with the provisions of an Act passed- by the General Assembly o f New Zealand, intituled the Waste Lands Act, 1854. I the following amended regulations for the managejment of the Waste Lands of the Crown within tfo 1 Province of Canterbury are published for genera! j information, previously to being ptopoaed to the I Provincial Council for their'adoption.' I Amendments to be proposed by the Provincial Secretary. Clauses 33, 35, 43, 51, 52,65, 66, and 71 of the regulations issued by the Governor i n a E reclamation bearing date 12th February, 1856 to eexpuDged and the following substituted:— ' 33. Upon payment of the ■, purchase money i n full, the purchaser shall receive from the commi s . sionersa "license, to occupy "in the form set forth in Schedule A to the Waste Lands"RegulatiotiH and such license shall he restored to the coramifi! sioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land ■purchased. ; 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section of Rural Land shall be1 sold; containing lesa than twenty acres; but any section so limited by fronts age lines or private lands as to contain less than twenty acres may be sold by auction at the upset I price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place 1 of sale, arid the mode of sale and payment of pi, r . 1 chase money to he as nearly as may be in accordance with the Regulations herein, contained applicable to the sale of Town Land; Provided nevwthelen that if any section so limited shall be included in a Pasturage License with Pre-emptive Right, the holder of such License shall be entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Right under these Regulations upon payment of the sum. of forty pounds for such sectionV 43. If any person shall contract with.the Super, intendent to make and complete within a given time any public road,* bridge, or drain, or any pait of any such road, bridge; or drain, furnishing such f :security as the Superintendent may require for the due completion of such contract, and shall select such portion of rural land as he shall be willing to accept by way of payment or, compensation, or by [ ' way of part payment or compensation forsuch work; ; It shall he lawful for the Superintendent to reserve 1 such portion of land from public sale for such given I time but no longer 5 and such person shall on the completion -of such contract be entitled to a free grant of such land, or so much thereof; as the Board :shall adjudge; mot exceeding one" acre for every two pounds .sterling which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Board^ to he the bond ■fide y,alue of the work so done by such person according, to the prices for work and materials at the time of performing such contract current in the idistlict. .'.,; ' •■:. .;; •. - .';;•••.. :.•'; ■ .r. , ' Everysuch reservation of land from public sale shall he published in- the Government Gazette of 'the; Province as in "clause 19 of these Regulations; - ! such reservation shall'9ontinue ; in force fora longer period than 12 calendar months from the date, on which it shall have been made. . No land included in a Pisturage License with Pre-emptive Right-shall as against "the holder of such Pre-emptive Right.-beso reserved or granted until he shall have been allowed the option of purchasing such, land in 'the •manner, prescribed in ; clauses, 64 ; and =66 <of these Regulations. IJogreater amount of lancLtban 250 :aeres shall under the provisions of' this, clause be reserved or granted to any one person uijder any such contract, ainless in payment of work foi; which a, yote has been by the P^osdncial CounciL.'.,.. - . ly[o greater-amount of land than 1000 acres in the aggregate shall in any <one;year be reserved or granted under the proyisions^of this clause, without ithe: special sanction of the Provincial Council. provided always that every .parcel of land so granted shall be subjected to the, same, conditions as to form and frontage as any rural land sold under -these Regulations. Provided alrso that no application for Jess >ihan 20 acres' shall be received under this clause, but that where any- 'amount of compensation awarded bj-ithV Board shall be' of a less textent than 20 acres of land,; the person, entitled may pay the balance in cash upon the same terns as other applicants for the purchaseof rural lands mnder these Regulations. •. ■••; 51. The €cc shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board every year, in advance^ for the ifirst year on the"1 issue of the License,, and Tor the every subsequent year on any sitting day of the. Board between the 20th1 dayofApril and the ■first day of May, inclusive^ an<d every jmsturage license not Tenewed by: payment of the required ;fee,on or before the ; nust day. of May, shall, unless good, cause to the-contrary: be shown to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board, be considered as abandoned. 52 Eye.ry pasturage license shall, be in the form set forth' in the Schedule, G to the Waste Lands Regulations, and shall .be: transferable by endorsement in the form set: forth in such schedule, and such transfer , shall be deemed to jbe complete upon notice thereof being duly given to the Waste' Lands Board and not before: A pasturage licence shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the land specified therein upon the term* above stated. Such' license shall be, renewed by endorsement from year to year, until the land specified therein.shall.be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations; and the fee to be ipaid in respect of such license shall not be altered Juntil the-first of May, 1870. Such license shall ■■give; no right to; the soil or to the timber, and shall immediately determine* over any land which may |be purchased,; granted, or reserved, under these 'regulations. A/ reasonable^ right of wiiy shall 1)6 |be allowed through all pasturage, runa." ; . 65. The. applicant for anyruval land included m .any pre-emptive right shall deposit with the Trea;surer of the Waste Lands Board a sum equal to !4s. per acre of thepurchase money, and the remaiV ;der he- shall pay; within'one week from the date of [his application being granted j or forfeit such deposit;; Such deposit, however, shall be immediately ;returned on1 demand, if the >-holder of the pie- ■ emptive right shall give notice of his intention to i purchase any portion of the- land applied for, and i pay the requisite'deposit. i '66. Ifthe,holder of>thepre-emptive right decide ;\ipon purchasing any portion of. the land applii'^ ■for, he shall forthwith pay to the, Treasurer of the ; Waste Lands Board a. deport, of ,4s. per acre of I tlie puroliase money of such portion j and, iflio shall not within six weeks thereafler have paid .the reiiiainder of the purchase mdney, he shall forfeit such deposit together with, all right or title to the land; : If the holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause 60 of the Waste Lands Regulationsshall neglect or refuse to piarchase swy portion of the land -applied for,: such portion shall jfrom and immediately after suchneglect or refusal ■be released from all right of pre-emption and ope" to purchase on the terms of these refrulationp, ;if the same.liad nofc been included in any pre * ! emptive right. ...'■■: I .71. All payments on account of pasturage runs ;shallin future be made on or before the first day °\ ;May, in accordance with clause 51, at the jOffice at Christchurch, and the Wust" j, a iidft :Doard shall ait at that pla«*? :^' r "^he Trcasnvei;i to 'receive l^sano*1 *