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Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 712, 3 September 1859, Page 6

Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, August 9,1859 "TN accordance with the provisions of an -*- Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the Waste Lands Act, l'L the followin^atnended regulation's for the mana cc ' ment of the Warte Lands of the Crown within th, Province of Canterbury are published for general uiiomiation previously to being proposed to th Provincial Council for their adoption. Amendments to be proposed by the Provincial Secretary. Clauses 33, 35, 43, 6i; 52, 65, 66 a 71 of the regulations ISBue d by the Governor in proclamation bearing dae 12th February, 1856 to be expunged and the following substituted.— 33. Upon payment of th e> purchase money i a full, the purchaser shall receive from the commix sioners a "license tol occupy " in the form set forth m Schedule A to the Waste Lands Regulation and such license shall be restored to the'corntn sioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the k !i purchased. na 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section r>f Rural Land shall be solcf, containing less thi twenty acres; but any section so limited by fron^ age lines or private lands as to contain less tha twenty acres may be sold by auction at the u Dsp f price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of sale and payment of nur chase money to he as nearly as may be in accordance with the.Regulations herein contained appliciWof the sale of Town Land. Provided neveriS* that if any section so limited shall be included in a Pasturage License with Pre-emptive Right th? > holder of such License shall be entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Right under these Regulations upon payment of the sura of forty pounds for SUc h section. . 43. If any person shall contract with the Super--1 intendent to make and complete within a given time any public road, bridge, or drain, or any part of any such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing such 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, cr" by way of part payment or compensation for such work • It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve such portion of land from public sale for such given time but no longer; 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, not exceeding one acre for every two pounds sterling which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Board to be the bond fide value 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 district. Every such reservation of land. from, public sale shall be published in the Government Gazette of the Province as directed in clause 19 of these Regulations.

No such reservation shall continue in force fora onger period than 12 calendar months from the date on which it shall have beenmade. $o larid included in a Paiturage License with Pre-emptive RigHt shall as' against tlie holder of sutih Pre-emptive Eight he so 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. STo greater amount of land than 250 acres shall under the provisions of this clause be reserved or granted to any one person under any such contract, unless in payment of work for which a vote has been passed by the Provincial Council. $o greater amount of land than' 1000 acres in the aggregate shall in any one year be reserved or granted under the provisions of this clause, without the 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:andfk>ntageas any rural land sold under these Regulations. Provided aha that no application for less than 20 acres shall: be received under this claase, but that where any amount of compensation awarded by the Board shall be of a less extent than 20 acres of land, the person entitled may pay'tthe balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants for the purchase of rural lands under these Regulations. • Wl. The fee shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board every year, in advance; for the first year oh the issue of the License, arid for the second and every subsequent year oh any sitting day of the Board between the 20th day of April and the tret day of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not renewed by payment of the required fee, on or before the first 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.Every pasturage license shall be' in the form set forth in the Schedule C to the Waste LandsKegulations, and shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth in such schedule, and such trans/er shall be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof bein«duly,given- to the Waste Lands Board and not before. A pasturage licence shall entitlethe holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the land specißed therein upon the terms above stated. Such license shall be renewed by endorsement from year to year, tmtil the land specified therein shall be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations; and the fee to be paid in respectof such license shall not be altered until the first of May, 1870. Such license shall give no nght to the Soil or to the timber, and shall immediately determine over any land which may be purchased, granted, or reserved, under theseregulations. A reasonable right of way shall be be allowed through all pasturage runs.

65. The applicant for any rural land included in any pre-emptive right shall deposit with the Treasurer of the Waste- Lands Board a sum equal to 4s. per acre of the purchase money, an-d the remainder he shall pay within brie week from the date of his application being granted, or forfeit such deposit. Such deposit, however, shall be immediately returned on demand, if the holder of the preemptive right shall give notice of liis intention to purchase any portion of the land applied for, and pay the requisite deposit.

66. If the holder of the pre-emptive rio-ht decide upon purchasing any portion of the land applied tor, he tfhal) forthwith pay to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a deposit of 4s. per acre of the purchase money of such .portion ; and, if he shall not within six weeka thereafter have paid the remainder of the purchase money,'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 Kegulahons shall neglect or refuse to purchase any portion of the land applied for, such portion shall irom and immediately after such neglect or refusal be released from all right of pre-emption and open •? f F ase on the terms of these regulations, as it the same had not been included in any preemptive right.

payments on account of pasturage runsshall in future be made on or before the first day of May, in accordance with clause 51, at the Land Office at Christchurch, and the Waste Lands Board shall sit at that place for the Tveapurey to receive the same. :