RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 147, 6 May 1862, Page 6

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

For the issue of Pasture and Timber Licenses for the Occupation of Waste Lands of the Crown outside Hundreds. Issue of Depasturing Licenses outside the Soundtiries of I'rocliruiicd Hundreds. 87. Any person requiring a License for a Run "on unoccupied portions of the Crown- Lands shall lodge with the Watte Laud Board a description of such Run (as near a3 tnsiy be in the form of Schedule X 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 Run, and tlie said Board shall at tlie same time publish in the " Provincial Government Gazette," or in a local newspaper whenever it has the means of so doing, a description of tlie R«11 and the name of the person claiming the same. 89: No person shall be allowed to dispute the claim of aDothcr 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. Erom the date* of the expiration of the above-named, period of three months, the applicant shall be required to pay rent for the Run 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 he shall have claimed the same, shall be liable to'be regarded as having abandoned such Run or part thereof and it shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board publicly to notify that such- Run or part thereof has been 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 jlun 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 50.0, a ' Run may be granted calculated to defc paature any number not exceeding — 6000 steep

Forovorr additional hunrlred between 600 and 1000 for 500") ~ 1000 and 3000 ~ 400 f Additional 3000 nnd MOO „ 200 f Sheep. „ 5000 and 10.000 „ 100 ) And in no case shall a run be granted capable or containing more than 25,000 sheep. In' estimating Kirns for Biesit cattle, one head of such cattle shall ■ " be rated as six sheep. " 93. In case of any question arising as to attempts to evndu the foregoing Regulation, or to obtain unduly tlto benefits thereof, the Waste Land Board shall have power to decide such questions in such manner as tna.v most eft'eotually carry out the true spirit and meaning of such Regulation. 91. So soon as tlie occupant of any Run shall in the opinion of . the Waste Land Board have huliieie.ily stocked the saTne he shall bo eutitle<l to a Luense to depasture .stock upon it for fourteen years in the form of Shedule Il', hereunto annexed, ami subject to the following conditions : — 1. l'f at any time during the currency of such License, the l.md oc'.n]>ri»u-l therein, or any part thereof, shall lie included within the b'iundaric» of any Hundred, the raid Lieeme •■ shall cease and determine as to so much of the land as shall be included'within such boundaries 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 L> ccr.se, the land comprised therein,.or,any part ~ thereof, shall be sold by or on behalf of the Crown, then and in that case also the said ■ license shall cease and determine as to so much of the land ns 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. S. The Annual License fee shall be in all cases at least, five pounds and every occupier of a Run shall pay annually in addition a further Li* cense fee at the rate of one pound sterling for every thousand sheep above five thousand which the Run so occupied shall be estimated to be capable of containing, and in the same proportion for great cattle ; six sheep being rated as one head of great cattle. • 4. If at any time during the currency of such Lcense such annual fees, and the annual assessi ment imposed by law shall not be paid by the Holder of such 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 ihe , forfeiture of such License, ami'to, let the Kirn to which it relates by Public Auction to tha highest bidder for a term of fourteen years subject to the conditions of these Regulations, and of any Law for the Regulation of pastora pursuits. 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 owing by him for such llun. 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 Laud - Ho -rd to make such alterations, in the boundaries.6 . their Runs, or of any of them as it may, upon inquiry, judge to be just and expedient. ISSUE OF XIMISER LICEKBES. 97. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board'to s*rant a License to any person ,to cut timber on tho Waste Lands of the Crown upon payment of aieo o not less than £1 for each such License. 91. The Waste Laud' Board, shall determine the extent of land to which such License shall {rive a right of occupancy, and the Licenses shall have eflect only within the district specified in them. 99. Every Timber License shall be in the form sot 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 selliug, or shall in any way aifect the rights of the Crown to the Land occupied in virtue of such License. 102. All disputes between holders of Licenses to cut timber or depasture stosk, shall be heard and de- - cided by the Waste Land Board. ; 103. Licenses for depasturing purposes may b«. transferred.from one person to another with the consent of the Waste Laud Board. DEFINITION OK WASTK LANDS OP THE. CROWN. 104. The term " Waste Lands of the Grown " and " Waste Land" throughout .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 Waste Lands of the Giro wn * Clause 83, Sub-section 2 Clause 94< and Clause -101. These claur-.es are modified or repealed by the' Land' Sales and Leases Ordinances, 1856, which enacts, " That it' tho conditions of a pasturage lease shall be duly fidtilled,thc land forming such run shall not be sold without the consent of the lessee, until proclaimed a Hundred.''

"..'•■ SOHEDULES. : The various schedules referred to in the regulations are merely forms, printed copies of which may always be obtained at the office "of the Waste Land Board.