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

vincial Counil, at any time, find from time to time, byproclamation in the Government Gazette of the I'rovinco, to. reserve for the purposes hereinafter mentioned any lands within the Province, adjacent to or in the neighbourhood of any town, now or which may hereafter lie formed, and to declare that on and from a day to lie named in stich proclamation all depasturing' licenses issued under these regulations, in respect of such reserved lands, shall cease and be of no effect; on and from which day, all such licenses shall, as respects such lands, cease and be of no effect accordingly. And it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time, hereafter, by regulations to bo issued in that behalf, according- to the provisions of the Waste Lands Act, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, to regulate the occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within such reserved districts. TIMBER. 75. If any tract of land shall have been reserved for the sale of the timber thereon, such timber may be sold by public auction at an upset price and subject to conditions to be fixed by the Superintendent, and the purchaser shall agree to remove the same within a certain time; and all the timber not removed within such time may bo again put up to public auction. 70. No person shall, without a license, cut or remove any timber from any Waste Lands of the Crown (except timber which he shall have purchased under the last clause); and any persons so cutting or removing timber shall be liable to pay the cost of such license for one year together with the costs of recovering the amount of the same. 77. Every license for cutting or removing timber shall be issued for one month, or for one year, at the request of the person applying for the same ; and a fee of 10s. shall be paid upon every monthly license, and of £5 upon every yearly license. 78. A license shall entitle no one but the person limned therein to cut down standing: timber, but it will authorise him to employ any number of persons, during- the term of the license, to saw, split, ov remove the timber so cut; and such license shall not be transferal)! c. 79. A license to cut timber shall extend only to the district named therein. 80. If any person duly licensed shall have established a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other person shall cut, timber within 50 yards of such pit without consent of the person first occupying- such saw-pit; provided that if the person establishing such pit shall not use the same, and shall not cut .timber withm such distance as aforesaid from the pit for 28 consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any other holder of a license to enter thereupon, and to cut timber as though such pit had not been established. 81. If any person shall, for tho purpose of removing timber, have made a road upon land being the Waste Lands of the Crown and not being a highway, it shall not be lawful for any other person to use the same without tl>p permission of the person making the same first obtained ; provided that if such road shall not be used at any time for 90 consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any bolder of a license at any time thereatter to use the same. 82 If any person holding a timber license shall be proved before the Waste Lands Board to have offended against any regulations herein contained respecting timber, or "to have wilfully or negligently injured or destroyed by fire or otherwise any timber belonging to the Crown, such license shall be, and shall be immediately declared to bo forfeited, and it shall be at the discretion of the Board to refuse to issue another timber license to the same person. SCHEDULES. Schedule A. . Province ) of \ Canterbury. ) LICENSE TO OCCUPY TOWN LANDS. Whereas of hath been duly dedared the purchaser for the sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, of the section of the Waste Lands of the Crown hereinafter described, and hath this day paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Canterbury, the said sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, AOSV KNOW ALL MEN AND THESE presents witness, that We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the said Waste Lands Board, do hereby authorise and empower the said his heirs or assigns, at any time after the date hereof, to enter upon all that section of land situated in street, in the town of marked, No. in the authenticated map of the said town in the Crown Lands Office and containing acres, or thereabouts, being the section of laud so purchased as aforesaid, and to hold and enjoy the same for his and their absolute use and benefit. Given under our hands at the sitting of the Wiiste Land? Board held at oil the day ot 18 Schedule B. Province ) of [ Canterbury. ) LICENSE TO OCCUPY RURAL LAND. Whereas of hath been duly declared the purchaser for the sum of pounds, shillings, and . pence, of the section of the Wiiste Limit of the Crown hereinafter described, and hath this day paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Canterbury, the said sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, NOW KNOW ALT. MEN AND THESE presents witness, that We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the said Waste Lands Board, do hereby authorise and empower the said his heirs or assigns, at an,y tin^ after the date hereof, to enter upon all that section of laud situate and bounded as hereinafter described, that is to say ; and to hold and to enjoy the same for I his and their absolute use and benefit, subject nevertheless to tho Regulations now in force for the sale, letting-, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown1 within the Province of Canterbury. Given under our hands at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at on the day of 18 Schedule C. Province ~) of \ Canterbury. ) LICENSE TO DEPASTURE STOCK. Whereas of hath been duly declared to be entitled to a license to depasture stock upon the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Canterbury, upon the terms and upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned : Now therefore We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the Waste Lands Board to the said Province, do hereby a-rant to the said the exclusive license, from and after the date hereof, untif the first day of May next, to depasture stock upon the laud situate and bounded as hereinafter described, that is to say— and containing acres or" thereabouts. Subject nevertheless to all the provisions and conditions contained in the Waste Lands Regulations now in force within the Province of Canterbury. Given under our hands at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at on the day of ■ 18 Endorsement. I, the within-named for valuable consideration to me paid by of do hereby transfer to the said the within written Pasturage License, and all my estate and interest, therein. Witness my hand this day ot 18 Witness APPENDIX I. Clauses 35 and 43, which were repealed by the Waste Lands Regulations Amendment Ordinance, Sesn. VII., No. 2, 185G, originally stood as follows: — # . 35. No section of rural land shall be sold containing less than twenty acres ; provided that 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 o) sale rmd payment of purchase money to be as nearly as may be in accordance with the regulations liorein contained, applicable to the sale of Town Land. 43. Jf any person shall at any time have made and comple; •■! at his own cost, any public road or bridge or any \ ■ iblic main drain, or any part of such road, bridge, or drain, such person shall, noon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to v free grant of rur::! land in such situation as he shall select, subject t ■■• the conditions as to form and frontage in those \ jgulations contained, to such fin extent as the Board shall adjudge, not exceeding-one acre fcrerery four pounds sterling which he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board that he shall have actually expended in the construction of such road, b:id c, (r drain. jtVoviV-j always that it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board that the money so expended by the applicant'has been^beneficially expended for