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Otago Daily Times, Issue 50, 13 January 1862, Page 2 (Supplement)

oiv farthing p?:- acre for Ui'- first mid second years,] ' on.! half-p'siny pt-v a ■■■:■ >h\- fii-- <! >ir:l ,■:;>'. m;:->b yrv.r.H, ' ; lii^'e-furtuiiWK per a •)..■ iiii- til.; ni'tu hju! every subse- | nui.-nf yrr.r; 'provide! thrii: ilu; iir-i y.-ar shall be taken i to bi; IJif timi' nl;i]>-;ii i'un.i tlm tlsxM* of tile original < license ro tin' fir.-t th- •of A!a,- next. fol'iowiiis-. ' 00. No p:istuv;nre iicjiite siiiiil It:; gnr.ited ;br a less 1 annual !■.(-■ l!i:i;i ;ii- jO-s. : 51. Tim (".•;■ s!i:iil 1m paid fo the Treasurer ot tat' : W:v<to Laud 13oard every year, in advance; for the : first year mi the issue of'the Hccn:-e, and fin- the second ! and every subsequent vrnv on any sitting day of the ; iiwai-.i, between tae day of April anil til'.- fiiwt day id' Aliiv, iiv.;lii-:.iv;: and every prKturai.iv license not; renewed hi- pavmr.-ht of the vi'quired fee, on or helbw.the first day of May, s:i;i'M, nul'W good cau?o to the' contrary be shown 1o the ::asi-.fiiriiou of the Waste Lands Board, lit; ronsidr-ivd .'is abandoned. ! .V2. Every pasturage iieeuss shall he in the ibi-ni set ; forth in the Schedule C to Hie Waste Lands Regula- ! lions, and slial! be transiVrab'e by endorsement in the ibvm set forth in such i-Wiodiilo, ilu<! such transfer shall be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof being <lu!v a-iv.sn to the Wu«tc Lands Board, and not before. A p'asturage license, siiall entitle tlie Iio!tl(!r thereof to tlie evcliu-ive ri'riit of pasturage over the land specified therein upon the terms above .stated. Such license shall be renewed by endorsement from year to year, until tlie land specified therein shall be purchased, granted, or reserved under thce regulations; and the fee to be paid in respect of such license shall not be altered until the Ist Maw 1870. Such license shall give no riu-ht to the soil or to the timber, and shall immediately'determine over any laud which may be purchased, "■ranted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable rig-iit of way shall be allowed through all pasturage runs. •Oil. If at. any time duriu(r the first four years niter the is^iu; of tlie fii-st license the quantity of stock for the run shall be less than that originally required, or during the next three years less than twice that amount, or iluvinar any subsequent period less than tiiree times that amount! th.3 Waste Lands Boaiil may declare the whole or a portion of such run to be forfeited ; provided always that with regard to runs granted prior to the i-wui! of these; Regulations such first period of four years shall commence from the date on which these isemulations shall come into operation : provided that one'oi- more runs held by the same individual or firm may for the purposes of this clause be considered as one run. 54. In any case in which a runholder can prove to Ihe satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board that he is preclude;! by arrangements entered into previous to the passing of these regulations from actua'iy, for a given period, placing his stock on his own run, it shall be suHicient if lie prove to the satisfaction of the Board that he possesses within the Province the requisite amount of stock, and will undertake to p'ace 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 hi-i run; and if he shall wilfully and knowingly make any false return, the Waste .Lands Board shall .immediately declare his license to be forfeited. 50. .Every run or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as al»rc provided, .-.hall be put up by the Waste Lands Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the Government Ouzetti;, and one av 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 GO 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 which is uot stocked will be required to deposit wit h the Treasurer 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 tlie run within the prescribed period; hut if such conditions be not fulfilled such deposits shall be forfeited. 58. The above rules in respect to stock! ng aru n, and to the lodgment of deposit money with the Treasurer, shall not apply to runs containing lc-s than 5000 acres. 50. Every holder of a license may be required at any time to pay for the actual cost of the survey of his run at a rate not exceeding^).*, for every thousand acres. 00. 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 follows:—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 ofs per cent oi'the acreage of the run. Tor a run of 5,000 acres and upwards^over 250 acres of land comprising and circumjacent to his honv stead 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 Lauds Board be deemed sufficient for the purposes of this cjause, together with fifty acres comprising and circumjacent to the lands so occupied or improved. 01. The License shall at the time of his application to the Board give a suilieient description of the lands over which he claims such pre-emptive rijrht, to the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor. And the same shall he marked off on the authenticated Maps in the Land Office. (i-X 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 tlie regulations as to form and frontage herein contained. (i3. The Waste Lauds 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 which does not include the whole of such block. 04. The riirlit of pre-emption hereby given shall be exercised within one week for all lands within twenty mi:es of the Laud Office, at Clnistchurch; and within one month for all lands at a greater distance Hi; refrom ; such time being reckoned from the date of service of a written notice from the Waste Lauds Hoard, setting forth a copy of the application for any o!' (he lauds included in the pre-emptive right. Such notieemav be sewed either personally on the runhoiilur, or by leaving the same at his last-known pi:;ee of abode within the Province, or at the principal lit'inestead or station on the run. US. 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 Ills application bfiiijf 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 land applied for, and pay the requisite deposit. u't> If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the land applied for, he shall forthwith pa'y 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 of the purchase money, he shall forfeit such deposit, together with all right or title to the land. If the holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause 00 of the Waste Lands Regulations shall neidect or refuse to purchase any portion of the land applied for, such portion shall from and immediately after such neglect or refusal be released fi'OTu all right of pre-emption and open to purchase on the terms of these Regulations, as if the same had not, been included in any pre-emptive right. 07. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive right in connection with purchased lauds, 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 decmo.l 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. If the land covered by such pre-emptive right shall be included within the limits of a run held by licensa under clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof in paying rentfor the same may take credit for the amountpnul by him in respect of "lands covered by such pre-emp-tive right. 03. Holders of pasturage licenses without preemptive ris'ht shall be entitled to hold such licenses or to have them renewed upon the terms of their contrac.t with the Canterbury Association or the Crown, as tlie 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 ei.'tiri".! to receive a lic'-nie under these Regulations, and s-iall from the date of .such exchange hold his run at the rale and on the conditions specified in these Regulations. . . ; . : Oi). If any person exchanging his license shall for auv periou1 included in the new license have paid rent at a hitt-hev rate than would be payable under .such license," such overpayment shall be adjusted at the next payment of rent. : 70. In the eventl of improvements having been effected by the licensee of a run on any .land which shall be reserved- by the General Government or by the Provincial Government under these Regulations, the lieenseee shall receive payment of the value of such improvements, such value to be decided by arbitration under direction of the Waste Lands lloartl, and to be paid by the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board out of theland fund. 71. Air payments on account of pasturage runs shall in future be made on or before the first day of Slay, in accordance with clause 51, at the Land Office, at Ch;istchureh, and the Waste Lands Board shall sit at that, place for the Treasurer to receive the same. . ; . 12 All payments to be made on account ot pastur-' age runs before the first day of May next ensuing shall be made for the portion of the year only which shall elapse between such day of payment and the soid first day of May. , 70. In calculating the amount of the license fee and tin! stuck required to he on the run, the year comnu'uciiiir on the said first day of May shall be deemed to be the same year as that for which such part payment thai! have be(-:i made. 74 Notwithstanding anything, contained iu.these rea-ulalions, it, shall be lawful for the Governor, upon i the recommendation of the.Superintendent and Pro