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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 595, 16 April 1851, Page 4

4, Unlawful occupation of Crown Lands. 39. Persons occupying Crown Lands without License liable to Penalty. 40. Penalty for second offence. 41. Exception. 42. Rights of Crown saved. 43. Cattle trespassing may be impounded. 44. Onus Probandi. 45. Costs of Suit. 46. Interpretation. 47. Commencement of Ordinance. Schedules A. B. C. D. Regulations to be established under the 3rd clause of the foregoing Ordinance, with respect to land not included in proclaimed Hundreds. For every license for a defined run the sum of Five Pounds shall be paid annually. All persons requiring unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands, as defined runs for the purpose of depasturing Cattle, shall lodge a description of such land with the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Such descriptions shall specify the boundaries and other particulars connected with the run, according to Schedule A. hereunto annexed. Such boundaries of land so described as are not marked by natural boundaries, such as streams, &c., 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. Any person who shall have a run claimed by him, or any part thereof, unoccupied by Stock for 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. It shall be in the power of the Commissioner of Crown Lands at any time to make such alterations in the boundaries of runs as he may upon inquiry judge to be just and expedient. Every proper facility will be afforded by the Government to persons desirous of purchasing homesteads on their runs, but it will not undertake to survey and offer for sale any smaller blocks than fifty acres of land. 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 4" Vi O VMm OW rl r'-.C rx Q * UUJ uuu VI IjJUiUIA U 1 LIJLC XUU. All licenses for defined runs will be for years. Licenses excepting those within hundreds, to be signed and issued by the Colonial Treasurer upon payment of the proper fees. No license will preclude the Government from including within a hundred or selling the land leased or any part thereof, or will in any way affect the rights of the Crown to land occupied in virtue of such licenses. All disputes between holders of licenses, having reference to depasturing stock or cutting timber, shall be heard and decided by the Commissioner of Crown Lands who is authorized by the Crown Lands Ordinance to charge at his discretion to the party against whom his decision shall be made a fee of Five Pounds. No licenses for depasturing purposes can be transferred from one person to another without the authority of the Government being previously obtained through the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Total amount of Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the sth day of Aoril 1851:— F Amount of Notes j n circulation on.the sih day of April, 1851, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz. :— £5 and upwards :...£ 700 Under £5.... 3855 Totai £4555 Total amount of Coin held by the same Office on the same day;— Sdver —•• 1207 Total £2555 I, Henry W. Petre, the , rer, do hereby certify that the above is a true account, as required by the Ordinance, Mo. 16, Session 8. henry W. Petre, Colonial Treasurer. Colonial Treasury, Wellington, 7th day of April, 1851. The sum of two thousand pounds has ueen invested, under the warrant of his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, in the public funds m England, through the Comimssanat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury. Henry W. Petre, s Colonial Treasurer.