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

one farthing per acre for the first and second year-., j one halt-n: any per acre for llto third and iourlh yeaivs, | tlpw-tartlimgs per acre lor the tilth anil every subsequent year ; provided that (he first year .shall lie taken to be tin; time clap-in-tVoni the <late of the original license 1o tins firet.day of Slay next foMMwing. 50. No pasturag:; he-use shall be giwilcu ;or a le>-s annual fee than £-2 iftj. 51. The fee shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Land IJoard every year, in advance; fin- the first year on the issue of the license, and for the second and every subsequent year on any sitting "day^ of the Board, between the 20th day of April and the Inst day of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not renewed hv payment of the required fee, on or before the first day of May, shall, unless good cause to the contrary be shown to the satisfaction of the Waste Lauds Board, be considered as abandoned. 5" Every pasturage license shall bo in the form set forth in the .Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regulations and shall be transferable by endorsement m the form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer shall lie deemed to he complete upon notice thereof being duly "■hen to the Waste Lands Board, and not before. A pasturace license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the land specified therein upon the terms above stated. Such license shall be renewed by endorsement from year to year, until the land specified therein shall be purchased, irranted, or reserved under these regulations; and the tee to be paid in respect of such license shall not be altered until the Ist May, 1870. Such license shall give no ri»l)t to the soil or to the timber, and shall immediately determine over any land which may be purchased, "■ranted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable right of way shall be allowed through all pas"sa'lfatany time during the first four years after the issue ofthe first license the quantity ot stock tor the run shall be less than that originally required, or during the next three years less than twice that amount, or during any subsequent period less than three times that amount, the Waste Lands Board may declare the whole or a portion of such run to he forfeited; provided always that with regard to runs granted prior to the issue of these Regulations such first period ot tour years shall commence from the date on which these ■Regulations shall come into operation : provided that one or more runs held by the same individual or firm may for the purposes of this clause he considered as one run. 54. In any case in which a runholder can prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board that lie is precluded by arrangements entered into previous to the passing of these regulations from actually, for a given period, placing his stock on his own run, it shall be sufficient if he prove to the satisfaction ofthe Board that he possesses within the Province the requisite amount of stock, and will undertake to place the same on the run at the expiration of such peoiod. 55. Every holder of a license shall, at any time, upon a written order from the Waste Lands Board to that effect, make a true and complete return of all the stock on his run: and if he shall wilfully and knowingly make any false return, the Waste Lands Board shall immediately declare his license to be forfeited. 56. Every run or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as above provided, shall be put up by the Waste Lands Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the Province. A license granted after forfeiture shall be deemed to be an original license. Upon appeal from any person whose run has been forfeited, within 60 days from the date of such forfeiture, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve or suspend such forfeiture either wholly or in part. _ 57. Every person taking out a license for a run wlucli is not stocked will he required to deposit with the Ireasurer the sum often shillings for every hundred acres included in the license, which will be returned without interest as soon as he shall have fulfilled the conditions in respect to stocking the run within the prescribed period ; but if such conditions be not fulfilled such deposits shall be forfeited. 58. The above rules in respect to stocking a run, and to the lodgment of deposit money with the Treasurer, shall not apply to runs containing less than 50UU acres. 59. Every holder of a license may be required at any time to pay for the actual cost of the survey o his run at a rate not exceeding-20s. for every thousand GO*." Every holder of a pasturage "icense shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a pre-emptive right over portions of his run, as fol-lows-—For a run of not less than 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, over a block of land comprising and circumjacent to his homestead to the extent of 6 per cent of' the acreage of the run. lor a run ot 5,000 acres and upwards, over 250 acres of land comprisiii"- and circumjacent to his homestead or principal station. And for all runs, over all lands occupied by any buildings, enclosures, plantations, cultivations, or any such other improvements as shall in thejudgment of the Waste Lands Board be deemed sufficient for the purposes of this clause, together with fifty acres comprising and circumjacent to the lands so occupied or improved. 61. The Licenses shall at the time of his application to the Board give a sufficient description of the lands over which he claims such pre-emptive right, to the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor. And the same shall be marked off on the authenticated Maps m the Land Office. 0-2. The lands included in such pre-emptive right may be of such form as the applicant shall choose ; but, any land purchased by him in the exercise of such right shall be subject to the regulations as to form and froutase herein contained. 03. The Waste Lands Board shall not receive nor entertain any application to purchase, from any person other than the runholder, the aforesaid block around the homestead or principal station winch does not include the whole of such block. 04. The right of pre-emption hereby given shall be exercised within one week for all lands within twenty miles of the Land Office, at Christchurch; and within one month for all lands at a greater distance therefrom; such time being reckoned from the date of service of a written notice from the Waste Lands Hoard, setting forth a copy of the application for any of the lands included in the pre-emptive right, buch notice may be served either personally on the runholder, or by leaving the same at his last-known place of abode within the Province, or at the principal homestead or station on the run. 65. The applicant for any rural land included in any pre-emptive right shall deposit with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a sum equal to 4s. per acre of the purchase money, and the remainder he shall pay within one week from the date of his application being granted, or forfeit such deposit. Such deposit, however, shall be immediately returned on demand, if the holder of the pre-emptive right shall give notice of his intention to purchase any portion of the laud applied for, and pay the requisite deposit. 00. If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the hind applied for, ho shall forthwith pay to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a deposit of 4s. per acre of the purchase money of such portion ; and, if he shall not within six weeks thereafter have paid the remainder ot the purchase money, lie shall forfeit such deposit, together with all rigiit or title to the land. If the holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause 00 ofthe Waste Lands Regulations shall neglect or refuse to purchase any portion of the land applied for, such portion shall from and immediately after such neglect or refusal he released from all right of pre-emption and open to purchase on the terms of these Regulations, as if the same l^ad not been included in any pre-emptive right. ■ _ G7. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive right in connection with purchased hinds, whether under the Canterbury Association or the Crown, shall, from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to be pasturage licenses over the lands included therein, upon the terms of these Regulations, with a preemptive right over all such land, to be exercised subject to these Regulations as regards notice of application, payment of deposit, purchase money, price of land, and size and shape of blocks. It the land covered by such pre-emptive right shall be included within the limits of a run held by license under clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof m paying rent for the same may take credit for the amount paid by him in respect of" lands covered by such pre-emp-"o&'faoiders of pasturage licenses without preemptive right shall bo entitled to hold such licenses or to have theVn renewed upon the terms of their contract with the Canterbury Association or the Crown, as the case may be; but if any person holding a license under the Canterbury Association or the Crown shall voluntarily resign the same, he shall be entitled to receive a license under these Regulations, and shall from the date of such exchange hold his run at the rate and on the conditions specified in these Hol^lf any person exchanging his license shall for any period included in the new license have paid rent "tahioher rate than would be payable under such itoisi,siidi overpayment shall be adjusted at the next PT™ntl levent of improvements having been effected by the licensee of a run on any land which slrill be reserved by the General Government or by lie'VrovincLu Government under these the licenseee shall receive PWm ™* °* ™c value of such improvements such value to be: decided by arbitration under direct ion of I he flugte Lands Board, and to be paid by. thei freasuiei ot the Waste Lands Board out of the land *«"',• 71. All payments on account of p i»tiuage unis shall in future be made on or before _th< ,h»t day ot May, in accordance with clause 51, at the Land Off cc, at Christchurch, and the Waste Lands Board.shall sit at that place for the Treasurer to receive the 5!"72 All payments to be made on account ot pasturage runs before the first day of May next ensuing shall be made for the portion of the year only winch shall elapse between such day of payment and the said first day of May. 73. In calculating the amount ofthe license fee and the stock required to be on the run the year commencing on tile said first day of May shall be deemed to be the same year as that for which such part payment shall have been made. _ 74. Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, it shall be lawful/or tli^Goveii-nor^npon |