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New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 581, 8 November 1851, Page 4

®ob£rnment

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, sth November, 1851TTTIS Excellency the Lieuttn ant -Governor JljL Ins directed the publication of ihe following Regulations rela'ing to the occupation of flownf lown Lands for the Depasturing of btock, and for Cutting Timber, in the Province of New Ulster. By His Excellency's command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

FOR THE ISSUE OF PASTURE AND TIMBER LICENSES FOR THE OCCUPATION OF WASTE LANDS OF THE

CROWN OUTSIDE HUNDREDS.

Issue of Depasturing Licenses ovtside the Boundaries of Proclaimed Hundreds. 1. All persons requiring Licenses for Runs on unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands, or for portions of the same which they now occupy, shall lodge a description of such Run (as near as may be in the form of Schedule B. hereunto annexed) with the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District in which such Run is situated. 2. If no objection exist to the applicant being allowed to occupy such Run, the Commissioner will thereupon publicly notify that it has been claimed as a Run, and he will at the same time publish (in the Government Gazette, or in a local newspaper), whenever he has the means of so doing, the name of the person claiming the Run, and the description of it. 3. No person shall be allowed to dispute the claim of another person to any Run described according to these Regulations, unless he shall do so within three months subsequently to the date of the publication above alluded to. 4. From the date of the expiation of the abovenamed period of three months, the applicant will be .required to pay rent for the Kun at the rate and in the manner after mentioned ; and he will be required to distinguish, by marked trees or posts, or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Commissioner, such boundaries of the Run as are not distinctly defined by streams or natural boundaiies. 5. Any person who shall have a Run, or any considerable part thereof, unoccupied by the requisite amount of stock for a period of six months after he shall have claimed the same, shall be liable to be regarded as having aban doned such Run or part thereof ; and if the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall find it necessary publicly to notify that such Run or part thereof has been so abandoned, it shall thereupon be given into the occupation of the first applicant for it. 6. In estimating the Sufficiency of Stock for any Run applied for, the Commissioner shall not allow for natural increase in any proportions, with respect to the amounts of Stock on the Run, greater than those set forth in the following scale : — For any number of Sheep up") to 500 inclusive, Run to be I ennn en granted for any number not f 500 ° SLee P J For every additional hundred between 500 and 1000 for .... 500 additional [Sheep. „ 1000 and 3000 400 „ „ 3000 and 5000 200 „ „ 5000 and 10,000 100 „ And in no case shall a Run be granted capable of containing more than 25,000 Shpep. in estimating Runs for great Cattle, one head of such Cattle shall be rated as six Sheep. 7. In case of any question arising as to attempts to evade the foregoing Regulation, or to obtain unduly the benefits thereof, the Commissioner shall have full power to decide such questions in such manner as may most effectually carry out the true spirit and meaning of such Regulation. 8. So soon after the time at which rent for a Run may have become payable under these Regulations, as the occupant may, in the opinion of the Commissioner, have sufficiently stocked the same, he will be entitled to a License to Depasture Stock upon it for fourteen years, in the form of Schedule A. hereunto annexed, and subject to the following conditions :— Ist. If at any time during the currency of such License the Land comprised therein, or any part thereof, shall be included within the boundaries of any Hundred, the said License shall cease and determine as to so much of the land as shall be included within such boundaries, from and after the day of the date of the Proclamation by which such Hundred shall be constituted. 2nd. If at any time during the currency of such License, the land comprised therein, or any part thereof, shall be sold "by or on behalf of the Crown, then and in that case also the said License shall cease and determine as to so much of the land as shall be sold as aforesaid, from and after the day of the date of the Government Gazette in which notice of such sale shall be published. 3rd. The annual License Fee shall be in all cases at least five pounds, and each person who occupies a Run shall pay annually in addition a further License Fee at the rate of one pound sterling for every thousand sheep above five thousand which the Run so occupied shall be estimated to be capable of containing, and in the same proportion for Great Cattle ; six Sheep being rated as one head of Great Cattle. 4th. If at any time during the currency of such License, such Annual Fees, and the Annual Assessment imposed by law, should not be paid by the holder of it, in the. manner and at the time required by the Local Ordinance, and by these Regulations ; then and in that case the License shall cease and determine, and the Commissioner of Ciown Lands will thereupon be empowered to notify publicly the forfeiture of such License, and to let the Hun to which it relates, by Public Auction, to the highest bidder, for a term of M years, subject to the conditions of these regulations and of any law for the "egulation of pastoral pursuits. •?. Jo such License for fourteen years will ««• tjj-a.'ted to any applicant for a Rim until h<- shall have paid all arrears of rent and as essi'^ri'd "'■'ch may.be owing by him for Mch L :i i. 1 i/. I*i dip event of any dispute arising 7 oe'ween two oj more claimants regarding the boundaries of their respective Runs, it shall be