PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN THE LAND REGULATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 143, 1 May 1862, Page 5

PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN THE LAND REGULATIONS.

Thb following series of proposals for amendments in the Land .Regulations have been handed to us for publication:— ' ' j ALTERATIONS IN THE LAND REGULATIONS. : 1. No land shall be ofleredior sale or disposed of, by auction or otherwise, until it shall have been properly surveyed, and marked off on the ground, and a map thereof deposited as a record in the office of the Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board. 2. That any application for .Rural land shall be accompanied by a deposit of one shilling per acre, which shah be forfeited if the applicant do not take up his application incases where there is no auction; but, sliall be returned to him if the land in question shall be disposed of by auction to another person. . 3. On the-day appointed ior the decision of all applications for rural laud, the applicant shall pay the additional sum of- 19s. per acre, or such sum as in addition to the Is. already paid shall make up the amount at which he became the purchaser by auc f.on. 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 7tU clause of the Land .Regulations. 6. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the 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 laud so set apart, reserved, and proclaimed shall be sold exclusively to immigrants from the United Kingdom or any British colony upon the terms and conditions hereinafter prescribed. 8. It shall be lawful for the 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 eifected by such revocation. IMMIGRATION. 9. As it 19 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, j it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, from time to time to appoiut 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 entitledto receive any land whatever free of cost in respect of such expenditure, unless he shall have obtained previously to his emigrating from some, one of such j agents of the said Province, a land order as herein ! provided. • j ■ 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 of 5 years and under IS—lO acres. Provided always, that in any case in which a child under 18 years of age shall accompany a parent the order shall be granted to the parent and not the child; and in case in which a servant shall be brought into the Province at the sole expense of a. master, the allowance shall be made to the master and not the servant. -.-... 11. No such land order shall be transferable, but in the event of the death, before the expiration of 5 i years; as hereinafter mentioned, of any person to whom any land order shall have been granted in respect of his own emigration, all his right and interest under such order "shall vest in his appointee constituted in writing, .or in default of such an ap- j pointee, in his legal representative who shall be at once entitled to a. grant of the land incase all the terms and conditions to which such deceased person was subject have been fulfilled up to the time of his death, j 11. In-the event of the death, before the expiration of the period of 5 years as hereinafter mentioned of any child or servant, iv respect of whom any land order shall have been granted to any parent or master, such parent or master shall, if all the terms and conditions in respect of such deceased child or servant shall have been fulfilled up to the time of his death, be entitled to a Crown grant of-the laud, which, in respect of such order he may have selected or be entitled to select. j 12. Every such order sliall be null and void unless the person in respect of whom the same shall have been granted shall present the same in person to the Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board within 12 calendar months from the date of the order being granted. . 13. On presentation thereol to the Chief Commissioner such officer, on being satisfied that the person presenting the same is the person in respect of whom he land order wa3 granted shall make a note thereon, stating the fact of such presentation, and of the day of the arrival in the Province of the person presenting the same, and shall date and sign such note. ■i. 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 acres mentioned therein out of the special settlement land, subject in nil cases to the provisions of any act in reference to the selection of special settlement land. 15. Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Commissioner, if he shall think fit, to divide nny allotment for the purpose of enabling any person to obtain the exact number of acres to which any sucli land order may entitle lilra, provided also that the land selected by any one person shall either be one allotmea> ir 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 ho 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 have been absent from the Province of Otago more than 12 calendar montlis in the whole, such land order shall be null and void, and,all right to land selected under the same shall cease and determine.

.18. At the expiration of 5 years'from the day of arri,val stated in such note as aforesaid the person entitled to any lands, selected under any such order, shall be entitled lo a Crown grant thereof, on proving to the satisfaction of the Chief Commissioner that the person in respect of whom such land order shall have been granted is then resident within the said Piwince, and has resided therein not less altogether'than forty eight calendar montlis out of the said 5 years. 19. That his Honor the Superintendent be requested to tahe the necessary steps for the due enactment of these resolutions.