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New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 891, 28 October 1854, Page 2 (Supplement)

tors to complete their properties by the purchase of adjoining lands in blocks of irregular shape and of small extent, so that the same shall not unduly interfere with the advantageous dividing of the adjoining land into convenient allotments. 41. The Waste Land Board, at ,the time of any application being granted, or as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, shall inform the applicant that the land so selected will be surveyed at the expense of the Government, or that the applicant must have the same surveyed at his own expense, by a surveyor to be approved of by the Board ; in which latter case such applicant shall be entitled to receive an allowance of 5 acres for every 100 acres so surveyed, as compensation for the cost thereof. 42. Every survey to be performed by the applicant at bis own expense, must be completed and delivered at the Waste Land Office within six months after the Waste Land Board shall have informed such applicant that the Land is to be so surveyed ; and in default thereof it shall be lawful for the said Waste Land Board, either to have the land surveyed at the applicant’s expense (which shall be repaid by him to the Board before the Crown Grant shall he issued), -or it shall be lawful for the said Board to dispose of the said land to any other person ; and in such latter case, the purchase money paid by the first applicant shall be returned to him on demand,after deducting one-tenth part thereof as a forfeiture for the default. 43. Where General Country Land shall be purchased in a district, in which the lines of road shall not have been determined on, and laid out, a right of laying out a road over the said land shall be reserved in the grant, and an allowance made to the purchaser after the following scale : —• Purchasers of 500 acres, or ) shall receive an > five acres per cent, allowance of - - ) Purchasers of upwards oH 600 acres, and not more whirr acres percent, than 1000 hcres - J Purchasers of more than* threeacrespercent . 1000 acres - - j 44. It shall at any time be competent for the Waste Land Board to offer for sale by auction, or to dispose of by lease, as hereinafter provided, any General Country Land, which shall be deemed to possess especial value as containing Minerals, VIII. Mineral Land Leases.

45. Any person applying fora Lease of land, whether Rural land, Special Occupation Land set apart for sale In New Zealand, or General Country Land, shall ho entitled to the same upon the following terms and conditions : 1. That the Lease shall comprise so much Land as shall, in the opinion of the Waste Land Board, be necessary for'the efficient working of the Minerals, not being less than 20 acres, or more than 80. 2. That the term to be granted shall be any number of years, at the option of the Lessee not exceeding 21. 3. That there shall be reserved a Royalty or rent of one-fifteenth of the Minerals to be raised. 4. That the Lease shall contain clauses in the usual form introduced into Mining Leases, ment of the Royalty or rent. 2. For enabling some person on the part of the Lessee from time to time to enter and examine the Mine. 3. For securing the regular, proper, and efficient winning and working of the Minerals. 4. For making void the Lease on breach of the stipulations, on the part of the Lessee, therein contained. 5. For delivering up the property at the termination of the Lease in good tenantable repair. 0. For enabling the Lessee to abandon the working of the Minerals, whenever he shall find the same unprofitable to work, and surrender the Lease. 4G. All applications for Leases shall be sent in by the applicant, and dealt with by the Waste Land Board, in the same manner as applications for General Country Land; and in the event of an auction taking place the upset price for a 21 years’ Lease shall be a rent or Royalty of one-fifteenlh of the Minex-als to be raised. 47. The Land comprised in any Mining Lease, shall, at the request of the Lessee, at any time after an occupation of three years, be put up to anction.at an upset price of £1 per acre, subject to the Lease thereof already granted, 48. Every applicant for a Mineral Lease shall furnish to the Waste Land Board, within a time to be fixed by them after the application shall have been granted, a plan and description of the land to be leased ; which plan and description shall be made and prepared by a surveyor to be approved of by the Board. IX. A actions. 49. Notice of the time and place at which any auction, (except auctions in order to decide between two applicants for the same land as hereinbefore provided), is intended to he held, and also of the allotments of land which will then be offered for sale or lease, shall he given by the "Waste Land Board by notice in the Provincial Government Gazette, not more than three months, or less than one month, before such auction shall take place. 50. No Land shall bo included in any such notice, unless the same shall have been previously surveyed, and have been distinguished by an appropriate mark upon a map to be exhibited in the Waste Land Office for public inspection during usual office hours. 51. The land shall he offered at auction by some person appointed by the Waste Land Board for the purpose. 52. Immediate payment of one-tenth part of the purchase money shall be a condition of every sale by auction, and the remaining nine-tenths of the purchase money must he paid by the purchaser within one calendar month next after the time of