Depasturing Licenses.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 230, 12 August 1848, Page 2

Depasturing Licenses.

Every person depasturing cattle on any waste land of the Crown shall make or cause to be made to, and deposited with the Commissioner of Crown Lands in the month of September in each year, commencing in September, 1 848, — A return, according to the form contained in the Schedule A. hereunto annexed, of all such cattle so depastured by him on the first day of the said month of September. 2. There shall be paid and levied in advance, in each and every year, upon, for, and in respect of all cattle despastured or kept upon any waste lands of the crown the following assessment. Fot every head of great cattle eightpence. For every head of small cattle one penny. 3. These yearly assessments shall be paid by the person depasturing stock to the Colonial Treasurer, on or before the first day of December in every year for the year commencing on the first day of January then next ensuing, the first payment thereof to be made upon the first day of December, 1848. 4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall upon the first day of October in every year, commencing on the first day of October, 1848, make an assessment of cattle depastured on Crown lands, and shall make a report thereof to the Colonial Treasurer in the form, and containing the seveial particulars set forth in the Schedule B. hereunto annexed, accoiding to which report the respective yearly assessments shall be payable, and be paid to the Colonial Tieasurer on or before the first day of December in each year. 5. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall publish yearly, in the Government Gazette, on or before the fust day of November, a list of the persons chargeable with the payment of the

ycaily assessment, and of the amount payable by each, together with a notice warning them that such assessment must be paid on or before the first day of December. 6. Upon such assessment being paid to the Colonial Treasurer, he shall thereupon issue a license authorising the Stock-holder who has paid his assessment to depasture cattle upon the waste lands of the CroAvn during the ensuing year, commencing upon the Ist day of Jannary then next ensuing. 7. For every license for a defined run, the sum of Five pounds shall be paid. 8. For every license to depasture on common lands, 10s. 6d. shall be paid. 9. If such assessment be not paid on or before the day named, the Government will be at liberty to offer the run of the paity who has neglected to make such payment to public competition at Public Auction. 10. All persons using any portions of the Crown Lands as defined runs for the purpose of depasturing cattle, shall lodge a description of such runs so occupied by him Avith the Commissioner of Crown Lands within three months after the publication of these regulations. 1 1 . Such description shall specify the boundaries and other particulars connected with the run according to the Schedule hereunto annexed. 12. Such bounrtivip<s nf runs so described as are not marked by natural boundaries, such as streams, shall be marked by the occupants thereof, by lines of marked trees, by posts placed at intervals, or by some other method which will render them easily discernible. 13. Persons desirous for the future of occupying runs, must in the first place apply to the Surveyor General, and having obtained from him a certificate to the effect, that such land is the property of the Crown, and that no objection exists to their occupation of it, must lodge this certificate with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, who will thereupon notify that the run is claimed by the holder of the certificate. Any person who shall have a run claimed by him, or any part thereof, unoccupied by stock for four months, shall be considered as having abandoned such run, or part thereof, which shall thereupon be given into the occupation of the first applicant for it. '< 14. No person shall be entitled to dispute the claim of another person to any run described according to these regulations, unless the matter be brought before the Commissioner of Crown Lands, within three months after the publication in the Government Gazette of the name of the person claiming the run, and of the description of the run. 15. It shall be in the power of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at any time to make such alteiations in the boundaries of runs, as he may, upon enquiry, judge to be just and expedient. 16. The Crown leserves to itself the power of, at any time, disposing by bale of any portion of Crown Land which may be claimed as a run, and held by a licensed occupant. 17. Such sale of a portion of a run will be ' conducted in accordance with the ordinary rules, regulating the sale of waste lands of the Ciown, and the purchaser of any poitioti of a mn will be entitled to a right of pasturage in the neighbourhood^ his station, in the pro- { portion of sixteen head of great cattle or one hundred head of small cattle for eveiy eighty acres of such purchased land. \ 18. Every occupant of land granted from the Crown will be entitled to the same privilege of running cattle in the same proportion upon the Avaste lands of the Crown in his vicinity, in those cases wheie such waste lands are held by other peisons as runs, under leas c or license from the Government. 1 9. Such runs as the Government has been in the habit of offering to public competition, or as may possess any peculiar value from being in the immediate vicinity of occupied land, will be, as heietofoie, let by public auc- j tion, from year to year. 20. Every propei facility will be afforded by the Government to persons desirous of purchasing , horn esteads on their iuns,but it will not undertake to surve y and offer for sale any smaller block than fifty acres of land.