Issue of Timber Licenses.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 372, 7 November 1849, Page 4

Issue of Timber Licenses.

14. — Persons occupying waste lands of the Crown for the purpose of cutting Timber, will be required to pay a fee of Five Pounds yearly to the Crown, upon the issue of the license. 1 5.— The Commisionei- of Crown Lands will determine the extent of land to which such License shall give a right of occupancy, and the Licenses only are to have effect within the district specified in them. 16. — No fresh applicant for a License will be permitted injuriously to interfere Avith a portion of forest, upon which any other person may have expended capital and labour. 17. — In the event of any Occupant of a portion of forest upon which he may have expended any considerable sum in the formation of roads or improvements, to facilitate the removal of timber, wishing to resign his License, he will, if in the consideration of the Commissioner he should be regarded as having established a claim to this indulgence, be permitted to transfer his License and right of pre-occupancy to such pei son as he may select. 18. — All applicants for Timber Licenses must address their applications to the Com* missioner of Crown Lands, stating their names and residences in full. 19. — When the application has been approved, it will be forwarded to the Colonial Treasurer, by whom, upon payment of the required fee, the License will be issued. 20. — No person will be allowed to cut or remove Timber on or from the Crown Lands which have been reserved by Government for the public use. 21. — The form of Timber License will be according to Schedule E. hereunto annexed.