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Otago Daily Times, Issue 47, 9 January 1862, Page 2 (Supplement)

itlio <l:iv ofsaV; and, in default thereof. Ihe puri 1-liii/o 'shsill lurii'ir lii« deposit money, mid al*> all rio-lit ov title to the land; and Hits section may lie, so!<I to any person applying for the same lor the price •it which it was knocked down sit the auction; nnd, it" not so sold, tin; section maybe again put up to jinriion at any fntuu; ssi't1. . 3d Upon jiavmeiit. of ihe purchase money m full, the purchaser shall receive from Ihe Commissioners a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth m Schedule A to the "Waste Lands Requisitions, and such License shall be restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant, of the land purchased. VII. —11UJIAL LAND. 3-1 All lime's not. included in any of the foregoingregulations shall be open for sale as rural laud, at an uniiorin price of forty shilling's per acre. :S". Save as hereinafter provided, no section ot Rural Land shall be sold, containing- less than twenty acre- ; hut any section so limited by frontage, hues or • ! i.rivf-' lands as to contain le?s than twenty acres may be sold hv auction at the upset price of forty shillings ' per acre : the time and place of sale, and the mode ot sale, and payment of purchase money to be as nem-.y i.siiiii«hein accordance with the regulations herein contained applicable to the siile of Town Land I rovi.iYc! nevertheless, that if any section so united shall be included in a Pasturage License with Preemptive Risrht, the holder of such License shall be entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Kiglit under these Regulations upon payment of the sum ot iorty pounds tor such section. Sij livery section of rural land shall he m one block, and/except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage hue, shall lie'of a depth of half a mile (or 40 chains) from such I°Note'.—A frontage line shall be taken to mean the 1 boundary of a road, river, or public reserve, or any ■ stream or watercourse which shall have been declared 1 by notification in the Government Gazette to consti1. tute a frontage for the purpose of selection. _ 1 37 Where, from the frontage not being a straight '' line or from the interference of other frontage lines, natural features, or the boundaries of private lands, 1 the above rules in respect of form cannot be accurately • observed, the form of the section shall be determined 1 as nearly in accordance with these rules as, m the ( iudg-ment of the Board, circumstances will admit. 3§. In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded ; by a frontage line, all the sides may be equal, but one. ; side may not be less than one-third of the other; and such section shall not be less than half a mile distsmt from a frontage line. . 1 39 Any person possessing- a section ot land may at any time select another adjacent thereto, ot sucli ' form that the two tog-ether, being- considered as one ! section, shall be in the form required for a single ; section" under the foregoing-rules. 40. Immediately on the payment of the purchase ■ money the purchaser shall receive from the Comims- ■ sioners a " License to Occupy," in the form sot forth ■ in the Schedule 13 hereunto annexed; and as soon ! thereafter as conveniently may be, the hind shall be '■ laid off by a Government Surveyor, as nearly mac- • eordance with the description given by the purchaser > in his application as these regulations will admit; > provided that whenever the lands selected he witnout "the surveyed districts, the expense of the survey and • of connecting such survey with the existing-surveys ' shall be borne by the purchaser, who shall at the time ' of purchase deposit the amount of the estimatedcost of such surveys-with the Treasure* of the Waste ' Lands Board, which shall be made as soon as practic--1 able, by order of the Chief Surveyor. Provided ' always, that should any section when surveyed prove 1 to differ in any respect from that intended by the purchsiser, the' Government will not be responsible 1 for any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser may experience, nor will the purchase money be re--1 turned. Provided also, that if the Surveyor shall nnd that the whole extent of land in the selected locality falls short of the quantity paid lor by the ; purchaser, the Treasurer shall repay so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price of the laud to be conveyed. The " License to Occupy/ shall, m any such case, be amended by. the Commissioners, in accordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the ' Crown Grant, shall be made oiit in accordance therewith; and the " License" .shall be returned to the Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall be issued. „ 41. Any person making- a ditch and bsnjk fence to 1 lands adjoining Waste Lands of the Crown may take out of such lands half the land required for the ditch and bank: provided that no ditch or bank shall be 1 snore than six feet in width. VIII. —COMPENSATION LANDS. 42. Whereas it is desirable that private persons should be enabled to receive portions of Waste Land in exchange for private lands taken for roads or for other public purposes; if any person shall be entitled to receive any compensation in respect, oi any iand which shall' have been taken for the purposes ot a road or of any other public work, or in respect of any damages done to his property by the taking of such land for such purposes, such person shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a o-rant of rural land in such situation as he shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage m these regulations contained, to the extent of one acre for every two pounds sterling of the amount of compensation which the applicant shall be entitled to receive in respect of the land taken for such purposes or in respect of such damage as aforesaid. 43. If : imy person shall contract with the Superintendent to make and complete, within a given time, nny public road, bridge, or drain, or any part ot any such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing such security as the Superintendent may require for the due completion of such contract, and shall select such portion ■ of rural land as he shall be willing to accept by way of payment or compensation, or by way of part payment or compensation for such work; it, shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve such portion ot land from public sale for such given time but no_ lonirer; and such person shall, on the completion of such contract, be entitled to a tree grant oi such land, or so much thereof as the Board shall adjudge, not exceeding one acre for every two pounds sterling which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Board to be the boiu'i fide value of the work so done by such person according to the prices for work and materials "at the time of performing such contract current in the district. Every such reservation of land from public^ sale shall bc'publislicd in the .Government Gazette ot the Province, as directed in clause 19 of these Regulations. . . No such reservation shall continue m force tor a longer period than twelve calendar months from the date on which it shall have been made. No land included in a Pristurage License with Preemptive Right shall, as against the holder of such Pre-emptive Right, be so reserved or granted until he shall have been allowed the option of purchasing such land in the manner prescribed in clauses o4 and 60 to these Regulations. No greater amount of land than 250 acres shall under the provisions of this clause be reserved or ■minted to any person under any such contract, unless in payment, of work for which a vote has been passed by the Provincial Council. . No greater amount of land than 1000 acres m the aggregate shall, hi any one year, be reserved or granted under the provisions of this clause, without file special sanction of the Provincial Council. Provided always that every parcel of land so granted shall be subjected to the same conditions as to form and frontage as any rural-land sold under these llc"■ulations; provided salso that no application for less than 20 acres shall be received under this clause, but that where any amount of compensation awarded by the Board shall be of less extent than 20 acres ot land, the person entitled may pay the balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants for the purchase of rural lands under these Regulations. IX. NAVAL AND MILITARY BOUNTIES. 44. Whereas the Superintendent and the Provincial Council and other the inhabitants of Canterbury are desirous to aid in making provision for the maintenance of such persons of Her Majesty's land and sea forces as may be discharged as unfit for further service in consequence of wounds or loss of health incurred in.the present war with Russia, and also for the maintenance of the widows of those who msiy be killed in such war:— Any such person or widow shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence from the proper authorities as to such discharge or death, be entitled to receive a free grant not exceeding 30 acres of the Waste Lands within this Province, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage contained in these Regulations; provided alwsiys that such application shall be mside to the Waste Lands Board by such person or widow in person within three years after such discharge or death. X. —I'ASTUHAGE. 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public purposes as herein provided, the Waste Lands msiy be occupied for pasturage purposes by persons holdinglicenses from the Waste Lsmds Board to occupy the same. ~ 40. Any person applying for a pasturage license shall state to the Commissioners what are the boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and the number and description of the stock which he possesses, or will undertake to place upon the run within twelve months from the date of the license. 47 The extent of run allowed to each applicant shall be at the rate of 120 acres to every head of great cattle and 20 acres to every head of smsdl cattle. The words " great cattle" shall be construed to mean horned cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male arid female, with their offspring above six mouths ot age; and the words "small cattle" shall be construed to mean sheep, male and female, with their weaned oft--48 ° Every pasturage run shall be in one block, and, as far as circumstances will admit, of a rectangular form: the frontage, under ordinary circumstances, shall iiot be greater than one-half the depth. 49 The fee to be paid for the license shall be at the following rates :—For every run containing less than 1000 acres, twenty shillings for every hundred acres; for every run containing-1000 acres and not less than 5000 aeias, two-pence per acre for the first thousand,