LAND SALES AND LEASES ORDINANCE,

Otago Daily Times, Issue 138, 25 April 1862, Page 6

LAND SALES AND LEASES ORDINANCE,

185 G. This Ordinance, which was approved by the Governor in 18i)7, provides for the sale of large blocks of laud (not less than 2000 acres) at the fixed price of 10s. per acre, and without conditions of purchase, the - total quantity of such land not to exceed 000,000 acres. Its provisions aTe as follows : — 1. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board to sell Waste Lands of the Crown situated outside Hundreds, proclaimed or to be proclaimed,"to an extent not exceeding Six Hundred Thousand Acres, in blocks of not less than Two Thousand Acres, at the price of Ten Shillings per Acre, without stipulating as a conxliLion of sale or of purchase, that the purchasers shall lay out upon the lands, in money or labor, a sum equal to Forty Shillings per acre; from which stipulation such lands, to the extent above mentioned, '•. shall bo ami are hereby exempted. 2. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board to , insert in every certificate of selection of land sold or. to be sold in virtue of the Land Regulations which . arc now or hereafter may be in force a stipulation that the .sale of such land has been made, subject to the" provisions of the " Roads Ordinance Amendment ■ Ordinance, 1856." 3. During the currency of any lease granted or to ' be granted of any Run for Sheep or Cattle, situated ■ outside of any .Hundred, proclaimed or to be proclaimed, if the terms and conditions of su<:h leasts shall be and continue to he duly fulfilled, the land . ■forming sueh1 Bun shall not be liable to be sold with- ■ out consent of the Lessee, anything lo the contrary herein contained notwithstanding.

4. Provided th;it it shall be in the power' of. the Superintendent, -with the advice and consent of his. Executive Council, to authorise the Waste Land Board to refuse to grant Leases of lluns, both within any district which he shall, with such advice and consent, from time to time determine lo reserve open for s:ilc, in pursuance of the lir»t section of this Ordinance, and also within any district which he shall, with such advice' and consent, recommend to the ' Governor to proclaim a Hundred until the determi- ■ nation of the Governor upon any such recommendation shall bo ascertained; and provided also thut • , nothing herein contained shall impair the right' of :v----the Governor, from time to time, to proclaim Hun> ' dreds, or tho force of any Regulations applicable io lands situated therein.

5. This Ordinance shall be deemed to bo part of the Land Regulations of the Province of .Otago, and any rule or clause in the said Regulations repugnant hereto shall be held and construed to be modified or re-

pealed, to the extent of allowing full effect to be given to this Ordinance.