ALTERATIONS IN THE LAND REGU-

Otago Daily Times, Issue 139, 26 April 1862, Page 5

ALTERATIONS IN THE LAND REGU-

LATIONS.

I. No land shall be oifereHor sale or disposed of, by auction or otherwise, until it shall havo been properly surveyed; arid marked off on the^ ground, and a map' thereof deposited as a record in the office of the Giiief CommUsiouerof tha Waste L.wd.Board. ' 2. That any application for Jiurn-I land shall he accompanied bya'depo.-iit'ofoiis shilllncipsr ■■'ore!, which shall be forfeited if the applicant -do not take up lus application in cases v/hei-e tlisi-o i.-j no auction ;■ but,shall be returned to him if tho land in question shall be disposed of by auction to another person.- ---! 3. On the day. appointed lor'the decision of all ap.plications for rural land, tlie applicant shall pay the -additional, sum of ISW. .per acre, or such sum as in addition to the Is. already, paid shall make up the amount at which he ..bewisaa the purchaser by. auction. " ■ ' ■ ' -.-■■- . . ■ , ■ ■ ■. , 4. Certificates of occupation shall not be transferable without, in addition to the usual registering fee, the payment of Is. per, acre on each occasion of such transfer." ■. - - -..-.- -• .. * ... - . 5. The period in which the conditions of purchase . shall be in force shall not be restricted to the i years fixed in the 7th clause of the Laud Regulations 6. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with tlie advice and consent of the Provincial Council, to reserve from sale and set aside for special settlement any land within the Province of Otago which'shall have been declared into a Hundred. • ■ ■■ ■ ' . 7. Such.land so set apart, reserved, and proclaimed shall be sold exclusively to immigrants from the .JJnitqd_Kingdoin_ or any British colony upon the terms and conditions hereinafter prescribed. - 8. It shall be lawful for tlie Superintendent at any time to revoke any such Proclamation, and the land therein Comprised shall thereafter be open to be classified and dealt with as though the same had not been reserved and set apart as aforesaid, provided always that the -validity .of any act which shall have been done under such. Proclamation before the revocation thereof shall not be effected by such revocation. ; -IMMIGRATION. .. ■;.9..:-As it, is . expedient ..that persons emigrating at their own cost from the United Kingdom and British colonies should be permitted to acquire land free of cost in proportion to their expenditure on emigration, it shall be lawful for the. Superintendent, from time to time'to appoint Emigration Agents in such places, ...'with authority to grant.land orders to'persons intending to emigrate and settle in the Province of Otago, and to remove any such agent at any time. Provided always that no person shall be entitled to demand any such land order as a right, or be entitled to receive! any land .whatever free of cost in respect of such expenditure, unless he. shall have obtained previously : 'to his emisrating from some one of such ngents : ;of- the said Province, a land order, as herein provided. ■' ■."-". - ■'< ,: ■■■■'■ : . ',-.■■ ■' :: .■'■■" " '■ 10. Such land orders shall- be granted according to the following scales viz :_—. . ..!.,/,. . ■ , For any person 18 ■■'years of age and upwards—2o acres. For any person' upwards qf 5 years and under 18—10 acres. Provided' always, that in any case in which a.child,under 18; years of ago shall^at'companya parent", the order shall.be granted,to*.the^parent andriot the'child ;"arid iii case in which a servant shall be brought into the Province at the sole expense ofa master,! the allowance "shall,,be made to:the. master and not.the; servant. -;:■/;.;,] ::">,-.?■.■■ -■- ;.■ j . 11. No such land order shall be transferable,.but. in.the event-Of the.death,.before the jexpiration .of 5 years as.:[hereinafter :mentioned, of any: person jto ; whom any/ land order shall'liaye been granteddn res,pect of his. own emigration, all his right and.interest under such order shall yestin his appointee constituted, in .writing;"- or in default of -such an, ap-! :}iointee;-:'i'n . his;- legal representative..' who,.shall -be at :i'once '-entitled- to a grant of „ the '_ land incase all the "terms and conditi6ns to which such deceased person was subject have been fulfilled ;up to< the time of his death. «;'■" • ' ' - ; j -, 11. "In the event ofitho death, before the_expiration', ofthe period'of .5 years as hereinafter mentioned of ntiy child "or servant,' iif respect of whom aiiy land order shall have been granted to any parent or master, Well parent or master shall, if all the terms and conditions in respect of such deceased child or servant slfall Have been" fulfilled up '" to the time of his death, be entitled to ,a . Crown grant' of the laud, which, in respect of such oi'der he may have selected or be entitled "to select. ' '"■.'..' "-:'■'.■ ;■ ■-.!■' I -•■ 12. Every such-order shall be null and void unless the, person,in-j'espect' of. whom; the'same shall have been granted shall present the same in person to the Chief Commissioner ofthe Waste Land Board within 12 calendar-months from the date of the order-being granted.'1- -. J.": . ' [ ":. ', ■ 13. Oh presentation thereoi- to'ithc'Chief.CominiEsionorsnch officer, on being satisfied that the person . presenting the same is the person in respect of whom the land order was granted shall makeanete thereon, si'ating:t!ie fact'of "suclrpresentation, and of the day of the arrival in the Province of the person presenting: the same, and shall date atid sign such note... \ A. Every such land, order .when so signed shall, ■ authorise .the person entitled to the same or his agent constituted in writing, to select the number of acrps mentioned therein dutof the special settlement land, subject in all cases to the" provisions of any act in reference to the selection of special settlement land, j .-■■ 15. Provided always that it shall be .lawfiil for tlie Commissioner, if he shall think fit, to divide any allotment for the purpose; of enabling any person to obtain the exact number of acres to which any such land order may entitle liirn^, provided also that the land selected by any one person shall either be one allotment or contiguous allotments. . ': . ! ; ' 16. Every such land order when so signed as aforesaid shall be in force for five years from the day of arrival stated in such note, and if no selection be made within that time such land order shall be null and void. "',•■' . • ■ ' • ' ' ' > 17. When any person in respect of whom any such land order, shall'have been granted, shall within the said 5 years havo been absent froni the Province of Otago-more than 12 calendar months in the whole, such land order shall be null and void, and all rightto laud selected under the same shall ceaso and determine. '. ■ •' : - ■ ; i ■ ". ' . 18. At the expiration of 5 years from the day of am-; val stated in Such note as aforesaid the person entitled to any lands, selected under any such order, shall be: entitled \o a Crown grant thereof, .on.proving to. tlie satisfaction ofthe Chief Commissioner that the person in respect of Whom such lnnd order shall have been, granted is then resident within tlie said Province, and has res-ded therein not less altogether than forty eight calendar months out of the said 5 years. j 19. That his Honor the Superintendent be requested to tahe the necessary steps for:the due enactment of these resolutions. !