RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 143, 1 May 1862, Page 3

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

For the issue of Pasture and Timber Licenses for the Occupation,of Waste Lands of the Crown outside 'Hundreds. Issue of JDepasturmg Licenses outside the Boundaries of Proclaimed Hundreds. 87. Any person requiring a License for a Run on unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands shall lodge with the Waste Land Board a description of such Run (as near as may he in the form of Schedule E hereunto annexed) together with a tracing of the Land applied for. 88. If no objection exists to the applicant being allowed to occupy such Run, the Waste Land Board shall thereupon publicly notify that the Land specified in the application has been claimed as a Bun, and the said Board shall at the same time publish in the " Provincial Government Gazette," or in. a local newspaper whenever it has the means of so doing, a description of the Run and the name of the person claiming the same. .'. . . 89. No person shall be allowed to dispute the claim of another person to any Run described according to these Regulations, unless he shall do so within three months subsequent to the date of the publication above alluded to. . 90. From the date of. the expiration of the above-named period of three months, the apSlicant shall be required to pay rent for the Lun at the rate and in the manner hereinafter mentioned: and he shall be required to distinguish, by marked trees or posts, or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the said Waste Land Board, such boundaries of the Run as are not distinctly defined by streams or other natural boundaries. ■ 91. Any person who shall have a Rnn, or any considerable part thereof unoccupied by the requisite amount of stock for a period of six months after lie shall have claimed the same, shall be liable 'to be regarded as having abandoned such Run or parf thereof and it shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board publicly to notify that such Run or part thereof haa beeu so abandoned, and the same may thereupon be given into the occupation of any other applicant. 92. In estimating the sufficiency of stock for any Run applied for the Waste Land Board shall not allow for natnral increase of stock upon the Run in any greater proportions than those set forth in the following scale :— For any number, of sheep up to 50#, . * oaidfarDLin&y'be granted calculated to de- ■.. -' '- ■

For •very additional hundred b«twe«n 600 and 1000 for 500} 1000 and - 3000 „ 400 Additional 3000 and 5000 „ 200 ( Sheep. „ 5000 arid 10.000 „ 100; And in no case shall a run be granted capable or containing mora than 25,000 sheep. In estimating Runs for great cattle, ona head of such cattle shall be rated as six sheep, . ' : = - 93. In case of any question arising as to attempts to. evade the foregoing Rcpulntion, or to obtain unduly thebenefits ihereof, the Waste Land Board shall have power to decide such-questions in. such manner as may most effectually carry out the true • spirit and meaning of such- Regulation. • 94. So soon as the occupant of any Run shall in the opinion .of ■ the. Waste Land Board have suffi- - icienly stocked the same he shall be entitled to a License to depasture stock upon it for fourteen years in the form ot Shedule F. hereunto annexed, aud subject to the following conditions : — 1. If at any tune during the currency of such. . License, the land comprised therein, or any, part thereof, shall .be included within thp, boundaries of any Hundred, the said License- : shall cease and determine as to so mncli of the • land as shall be included within such boundar--ies from and after a day to be named in the; Proclamation by which such Hundreds shall, be constituted. *2. If at any. time during tne currency of such Li- ,, cense, the land comprised therein, or any part, thereof, shiill be sold by or on behalf of the Crown, then and in that case also the said license shall cease and determine a3 to so much of the land as shall be sold as aforesaid, from and after the day of the date of the Provincial Government Gazette in which notice of such sale shall be published. 8. The Annual License fee shall be in all cases at 'least five pounds and every occupier of a Bun fehall pay annually in addition a further Li-; cense lee at the rate of one pound sterling for every thousand sheep - above five thousand which the Run so occupied shall be estimated to be callable of containing, and in tho same proportion for great cattle ; six sheep boing rated as,one head of great cattle. ; - .4. If at any time during the currency of such Lcense such annual fees, and the annual nssessi ine'nt imposed by law shall not be paid by the ; Holder of sucli License" in the manner and at' the time required by these Regulations : then and in that case the said License shall cease and determine, and the Waste Land Board shall thereupon be empowered to notify publicly theforfeiture of such License, and to let the Run to which it relates by Public Auction to thehighest bidder for a term of fourteen years subject to the conditions of these Regulations, and of any. Law for the Regulation of pastora pur-. Suit 3. . . '. : 95. No such License for fourteen years shall be granted to any applicant for a Run until he shall have paid all arrears of rent and assessments which may be owinghy him for such Run. 90. In the event of any dispute arising: between two or more claimants regarding the boundaries of their respective Runs, it shall be lawful for the Waste Land 80-a-d to make such alterations, in the boundaries of their Runs, or of any of them as it may, upon inquiry, judge to be just and expedient. ISSUE OF TIMBER LICENSES. 97. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board to ■crant a License to any person to cut timber on the Waste Lauds of the Crown upon payment of a ice o not less than £1 for each such License. 08. Tho Wiiste Laud Board, shall determine the extent of land to which such License shall (rive a right of occupancy, and the Licenses shall have efiect only within the district specified in them. 99. Every Timber License shall be in the form set forth in Schedule G. hereunto annexed. GENERAL. 100. All licenses shall be drawn so as to expire simultaneously on the last day of each year. *101. No license shall preclude the Waste Land Board from selling, or shall in any way affect the rights of the Crown to the Land occupied hi virtue of such License. 102. All disputes between holders of Licenses to cut timber or depasture.stock, shall be heard and decided by the Waste Land Board. 103. Licenses for depasturing purposes may be transferred from one person to another with the consent of the Waste Land Board. . •■ DEFINITION OS WASTE LANDS OP THE CROWN. 104. The term "Waste Lands of the Crown" and, " Waste Land" tliroughoufc these regulations, shall be deemed to include all such land within the Province of Otago as is declared by the 72d Section of -the-Constitution-Act to be W»«to .Lands of the Grown. * Clause 83, Sub-section 2 Clause 94, and Clauso 101. These clauses are modified or repealed by the Land Sales and Leases Ordinances, 1856, which enacts, " That if the conditions of a pasturage lease shall be duly fulfilled,the land forming such run shall not be sold without the consent of the lessee, until: proclaimed a Hundred." SCHEDULES. The various schedules referred to in the regulations are merely forms, printed copies of which may always - be obtained at the oflice of the Waste Laud Board. LAND SALES AND LEASES ORDINANCE, • 1556. This Ordinance, which was approved by the Governor in 1857, provides for the sale of large blocks of land (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 600,000 acres. Its provisions are 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 ot Ten Shillings per Acre, without stipulating as a condition of sale or of purchase, that the purchasersshall layout 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 be and 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 Reflations which are now or hereafter maybe 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 enrrency 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 such lease shall be and continue to be duly fulfilled, the land forming such Run shall not be liable to be sold without consent of the Lessee, anything to the contrary herein contained notwithstanding. 4: Provided that 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 Runs, both within any district which he shall, with such advice and consent: from time to time determine to reserve open for sale, in pursuance of the first 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 determination of the Governor upon any such recommendation shall be ascertained; and provided also that" nothing herein contained shall impair the right of the Governor, from time to time, to proclaim Hundreds, or the force of any Regulations applicable to lands situated therein. 5. This Ordinance shall be deemed to be part of the' Land Regulations of the Province of Otago, and any rule or clause in the said Regulations repugnant here- ' to shall be held and construed to be modified or repealed, to the extent of allowing full effect to be given to this Ordinance.