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Otago Daily Times, Issue 60, 24 January 1862, Page 2 (Supplement)

the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the purchase 'shall lbrli.'it. his deposit money, find also nil right or Hl.'o lo the: laud; and the seel ion may he so!.! to any person applying for the niihi; for the price Jit which it was knocked down at the auction ; and, if not so sold, tin: section may be again ]':H up to add ion a!" any l'uliire sale. 43:3. Upon payment of tint purchase money in full, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners^! " License to Occupy," in the form set forth in Schedule A to the 'Waste Lands Regulations, and such License shall be restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased. VII. —WIHAL USD. 04. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall he open for sale as rural land, at an uniform price of forty shilling's per acre. 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section of Rural Land shall be sold, containing less than twenty acres ; but any section so limited by frontage lines or private lands as to contain less than twenty acres may be sold by auction at the upset price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of sale, and payment of purchase money to be as nearly as may be in accordance with the regulations herein contained applicable to the sale of Town Land. Provided, nevertheless, that if any section so limited shvl! be included in a Pasturage License with Preemptive Uiu-lit, the holder of such License shall be entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Right under these Resruhitioni upon payment of the sum of forty pounds for sucli section. 3li. Every section of rural land shall be ; n one block, mid, "except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage line, shall be'of a depth of half a mile (or "40 chains) from such fi ontiice. JVoTK.—A frontage line shall be taken to mean the boundary of a road, river, or public reserve, or any stream or watercourse which shall have been declared by notification in the Government Gazette to constitute a fiontaae for the purpose of selection. 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, the above rules in respect of form cannot be accurately observed, the form of the section shall be determined as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the jiidirmen't of the Board, circumstances will admit. 38. In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded by a front asre 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 distant fiom a frontage Hue. 30. Any person possessing- a section of land may at any time'select another adjacent thereto, of such form that the two together, being- considered as one section, shall lie 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 Commissioners a '" License! to Occupy," in tin; form set forth in the Schedule B hereunto "annexed ; and as soon thereafter ;ts conveniently may be, Hi;! land shall be laid off by a Government Surveyor, as nearly in accordance'with the description given by the purchaser in his application as these regulations will admit; provided' ilia-., whenever the lands selected lie without 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 estimated cost of such survey with the Treasurer of the Waste Lauds Board, wlrch shall be made as soon as practicable, by order e.-f the Chief Surveyor. Provided always,'that should any section when surveyed prove to diir'er in any respect fr.nn that intended by the purchaser, the' Government will not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser niav experience, nor will the purchase money be returned. Provided also, that if the Surveyor shall find that the whole extent of laud in the selected locality fails short of the quantity paid for by the purch.Wr, the: Treasurer shall repay so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The "License to Occupy" shall, in any such case, be amended by the Commissioners, in accordance with th.: report of the Surveyor, and the Crown Grant shall be made out 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 bank fence'to lands adjoining Waste Lands of the Crown may lake out of such lands half the land required for the ditch and bank: provided that no ditch or bank shall be more than six feet in width. VIII. —COMPENSATION LA^'DS. 42. Whereas it, is desirable that private persons should lie enable. 1 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 of any land which shall have been taken for the purposes of 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, bo entitled to a grant of rural laud in such situation as he shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage in these regulations contained, to the extent of one acre for every two pounds sterling c f the amount of compensation which the applicant shall be entitled to receive in respect of the land taken for such purposes or iii respect of such damage as aforesaid. 43. If any person shall contract with the Superintendent to make and complete, within a given time, any public road, bridge, or drain, or any part of any sueb mad, bridge, or drain, furnishing such security as the .Superintendent may require for the due completion ofsueh 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 of land from public sale for such given time but nei lonn'cr; and such per on shall, on the completion of such contract, be entitled to a free grant of 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 bom'i fide value of Ihe 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. ■ livery such reseivation of land from public sale shall be"published in the Government Gazette, of the Province, a.s directed in clause 1.0 of these Regulations. IVo sueli reservation shall continue in force for a longer period than twelve calendar months from the date on which it shall have been made. No land included in a Pasturage! License with Preemptive Bight 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 U4 and UG to these Regulations. No gi-eater amount of land than 200 acres shall under the provisions of this clause be reserved or granted to any person under any such contract, unless in payment of work for which a vote has been passed by"the Provincial Council. No urcatr-r amount of laud than 1000 acres in the aggregate r.lialf, in any one year, be reserved or granted under the provisions of this clause, without the 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 iioutaa'i'as any rural land sold under these Regulations ;"provided also 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 of iand, the person entitled may pay the balance in cash upon i the same terms as other applicants for the purchase of rural 'lands under these Regulations. IX. —NAVA& AND MILITARY HOUXTIES. 44. Whereas, the Superintendent and the Provincial Council and other the inhabitants of Canterbury i are desirous to aid in making provision for the main- | tenance of such persons of "Her slajesty's_ land and sea ioi-ces as may be discharged as unlit 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 may be killed in such war: — Any sticli 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 jrrant. not exceeding 30 acres of the Waste; Jumels within this Province, subject to the conditions as to form and fi-ontnsre contained in these Regulations; provided always that such application shall be made to the Waste Lands fiejard by such person or widow in person within three years after such discharge or death. X.—PASTURAGE. 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public purposes as herein provided, the Waste Lands may be. occupied for pasturage- purposes by persons holding licenses from the Waste Lanels 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, anel the* number uuil description of the stock which be: possesses, or will undertake! to place upon the run within twelve months from the elate of the: license. 47. The extent of run allowd to each applicant shall be at tiie rate of 120 acres t-> every head eif great cattle:, and 20 acres to every i;ead of small cattle. The words " ureat cattle" shall be construed to mean homed cattle'," horses, mules, ami asses, male and female, with their oifspring above six months of age; and the words "small cattle" shall be construed to mean sheep, male anel female, with, their weaned offspring. 48. Every pasturage run shall he in one block, anel, as far as circumstnucis will admit, of a rectangular tbnri : the frontage, under ordinary 'circumstances,' shall not be greater than one-half the depth. . 40. The fee to be raid for the license shall beat the following- rates : —l'eir. every run containing less than 100!) acres, twenty shilang-s for every hundred acres; fiir every run ceinfaiuiug 101)0 ams, and ne">t less than •5000 ae?i is, two-pence per acre for the 'first, thousand, and one penny-per, acre .for every acre in addition. Tor every run containing 500(1 -acres'or upwards,