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Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 721, 5 October 1859, Page 6

'•'Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, August 9,1859. IN accordance with the provisions of an Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the Waste Lands Act, 1864, the following amended regulations for the manngeraent of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Canterbury are published for general information, previously to being proposed to the Provincial Council for their adoption. Amendments to be proposed by the Provincial Secretary. Clauses 33, 35, 43, 51, 52, 65, 6G, and 71 of the regulations issued by the Governor in a proclamation bearing date 12th February, 1856, to be expunged and.the following substituted :r— 33, Upon payment of the purchase money in full, the purchaser shall receive from the commis-; sioners a "license to occupy" in the form set forth ; in Schedule A to the Waste Lands Regulations,' and such license shall be restored to the conamis- • sioners,upon .receipt of a Crown Grant of the land • purchased. • ' •:• \ 35. Save -as hereinafter provided, no section of. Rural Land shall be sold, containing less than twenty-acres.; but any section bo limited by front-; age lines or private 'lands as to contain less than • twenty acresmay be sold by auction at the upset; price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of sale and payment of. pur- ■ chase money to be as nearly as may»be in accordance : with the Regulations herein contained applicable to ■ the sale of Town Land. Provided nevertheless that if any section so limited shall be included in a Pasturage License with Pre-emptive Right, the bolder,of such License shall he entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Right under these Regulations upon payment of the sum of forty pounds for such section. p 43. -"If any person shall contract'with the Superintendent'1 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 he willing to accept by way of payment or compensation, or by way of part payment or compensation for such work; It shalLhfilawful 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 theßoard • shall adjudge, not exceeding one. acre for every two: pounds sterling which the ;■ Superintendent shall5 certify to the Waste iLands Board.to be the !bon& fide value of the work.SO' done'by-such person ac- '• cording 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 Jail be published an ; the < Government Gazette of the < Province .as < directed an .clause 19 .of these .Regulations. No such reservation shall coritinuein force for a longer period than 12 calendar months from the date on which: it shall have been made. No: land included :in a Pasturage License with .Pre-emptive Eight shall as against 'the holder of such Pre-emptive Eight Ibe so reserved or granted until he shall have been allowed :the<option of purchasing, such 'land in >fche manner tprescribed in clauses 64 and '66 of these -Regulations. No greater amount of lan'd?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 worjcfor whicha vote hasbeen passed, by the Provincial Council., ■■ No greater amount of ;iand .than 1000 acres in .the aggregate; shall in any. one year be reserved or ■grantec^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 and frontage as anyrural land sold under [these Eegulations. Provided <also ..that no application for'less than 20 acres shall be received under : this clause, but that where any amount of compensation awarded by the 33oard shall he of a less extent than 20 acres of :land, the person entitled may pay the balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants for the purchase.of rural lands under these Eegulations. ; 61. The fee shall be paid to the Treasurer of -the Waste Lands Board every year, in advance; for the : first, year on the issue of the License, and for the second and every-subsequent year on any sitting day : of the Board between the 20th. day of April ancLthe ■• first day of May, inclusive; and revery 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 satis- i faction of the Waste Lands Board, be considered as i abandoned. :

52. Every pasturage license shall be "in fhe form set forth m the Schedule G to the Waste Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth dn such schedule, and such transfer shall be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof being i duly given to the Waste Lands Board and not More... A pasturage licence shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage overthe land specified therein upon the terms above stated. Sudh license shall be renewed bb endorsement from year to year, until the land specified therein shall be purchased, granted or reserved under these regulations; and4he fee, to be pa!?i 1? specfc of su6h license shall" not be altered untd 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 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 IPf 3(f ,? f G PF chase money, and the remainder he shall pay within one 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 his intention to purchase any portion of the land applied for, and pay the requisite deposit.

66. If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the land applied he shall forthwith pay,to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Eoard a. deposit of 4 5 .. per acre of the purchase money of such portion; and, if he shall not witlim six weeka thereafter have paid the reminder, of the purchase rooney, he ahlll IS such deposit together with all riglt ortitieto SJ

H,!f It holdef ,°i ar7 Pre-emptive right other ban hose created by clause 60 of the WiSte Land to porebme »d the term, of the» ProgSS° P™