LAND SALES AND LESES ORDINANCE, 1856.

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

LAND SALES AND LESES ORDINANCE, 1856.

TJiis 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 (300,000 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 blocl • of not loss than Two Thousand Acres, :it the price ot Ten Shtllrigs p^r Acre, without stipulating as a coiidition of sale or of purchase, that the purchasers shall lay out npo'.i the lands, in money or labor, a sum equal to I'orty Shillings per acre; from which stipulation such lands, to the extent above mentioned, shall be and are hereby exempted. 2. It sh.ill be Inwiul for the Wa«to Land Hoard to insert i:i every ceruficafe of selection of land sold or to be sold in virtue of the Land Regulations which' are now or hereafter may be in force a'stipulation that the sale of such^ land has been in-tde, subject \o the provisions of trie " Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1856."

3. During tlio cnvroiicy of any lew granted or to be granted of any Run for Shuep or Cdttle, situated, outside of any Hundred, proclaimed or to be.pro-" claimed, if the terms and conditions of such lease shall be and continue to be duly fulfil led, tlie land forming such Hun shall not lie liable to be sold without consent of the Lessee, anything to the contrary herein contained notwithstanding. 1 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,~\vith such advice andconI sent, from time to time determine to reserve opan for 1 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 j Governor to proclaim.a Hundred until the determii nation of the (xovernor 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 io 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 hereto shall be held and construed to lie modified or repealed, to the extent of allowing full effect to bo given to this Ordinance.