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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 740, 18 May 1853, Page 4 (Supplement)

purchasing such homestead shall have been made to the occupant of the run at the price ot eithei Ten Shillings per acre, or Five Shillings pci acie according to the quality ol the land, as the same shall he certified by the Commissioner Crown Lands. The occupant of the run will in such case he allowed to exercise the right of puichasmg his homestead at such fixed price over an extent of land varying from ten to eighty acres, at his discretion. Hut the Government rcseives to itself the power of requiring the occupant to exercise this right at any time alter one month s notice, although no person should have applied to purchase the laud. 14. —Lands applied for, which form part of a sufficiently stocked ran, will, provided, they he certified as unavailable for agriculture, be pat up to auction at ss. per acre, after three months notice of sale shall have been given to the run-holder . If any intending purchaser, other than the holder of the run, shall apply to the Commissioner to purchase land forming'a run or portion of a run which is with the sanction of Government in the bona fide possession of such holder ; which shall in the opinion of such Commissioner be sufficiently stocked ; and which upon the application of the holder ot the run to such Commissioner, shall he certified hy him to he, from its hilly and broken character, or from some other cause, unavailable for agricultural purposes ; such run or portion of a run shall in that case he disposed of by public Auction at the upset price of five shillings per acre, and in accordance with the regulations hereinafter prescribed for auction sales ; but such sale shall not take place until after three month’s notice ol the application to the Commissioner to purchase such pind has been left at some station on the run. Sec. IV.—Unpiiocl aimed Lands. 15. —Applicants for lands in unproclmined districts to make their own surveys if a government Surveyor cannot be scut. Any person desirous of purchasing Crown Lands in districts not proclaimed or notified as about to he surveyed for sale, must, after selecting the locality and determining the number ol acres lie desires to purchase, give notice thereof to the Commissioner of Crown Lands ; when he will he required, if the Government has no surveyor available for that purpose, to have such lands surveyed at his own expense hy a surveyor authorised by Government in that behalf, whose survey must he duly approved before the applicant is allowed to complete the purchase. 1(), —In which case an allowance of five acres per cent, will be made. In such case an allowance of land will he made to the applicant at the rate of five acres lor every hundred acres so surveyed. 17.—// such land be sold at Auction and the original applicant be outbid, the original applicant will be repaid, as the cost of such survey, a sum not exceeding one shilling ]>cr acre. If the land so surveyed should fall under the regulations for land to he sold by auction, and the original applicant should not become the purchaser thereof, then the purchaser of the land, in addition to the amount he hid for the same, Avill be required to pay to the original applicant as the cost of surveying such land, such amount not exceeding one shilling per acre, as may be he assessed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands after taking such evidence respecting the cost of the survey os he may consider necessary. 1C. — Allotments in unproclaimed districts not to be less than eighty acres in extent. No allotment of less than 00 acres in extent will he disposed of in any unproclaimed district. 19 Certain rules for lands in proclaimed districts to be also applicable in unpreclaimed. The rules in regard to Proclaimed Lands which relate to the prices of various kinds of land ; to their sale at fixed price or hy auction ; to the shape of allotments; to the reservations for roads; to the right of preemption of homesteads on runs ; and to the notice to lie given to occupants of runs before land is sold hy auction ; will equally apply to lands in unproclaimed districts. But where the applicant makes the survey at his own cost the deposit of ton per cent, referred to in .Rule C will not he required. Sec. V.—Sales uy Auction, 20. — Lands sold by Auction to be first surveyed and marked on plans. No lands shall he included in a Proclamation or Notice as about to he sold by auction, unless the same shall have been previously surveyed, and have been distinguished by an appropriate mark upon a chart exhibited in the oifice of the Commissioner of Crown Lands. 21. —P üblic notice of sale to be given, not more than three months nor less than one. Notice of the time and place at which any intended auction shall be held, as also of the allotments of land which will be then offered for sale, shall he given hy Proclamation or Public Notice, not more than three months nor less than one month before the same shall take place. 22. —Lands put up to Auction and not sold may be purchased at the upset price within three years unless again put up to auction. It shall be competent to any person within three years next after any auction, to become without any further auction the purchaser of any lands, so put up for sale as aforesaid and not then Sold, bv offering and paying fox- tlxe saxxxe tlxe upset price at which the same may have been put up for sale. Provided always that it shall he competent to the Government instead of permitting such lands to he purchased as aforesaid, to cause the same to he again put up to auction, giving such notice thereof as is hereinbefore provided. 23. Ten per cent, of the purchase money to be deposited at the sole and the remainder paid within one month, or deposit forfeited. Immediate payment in cash of one-tenth of the