SALE OF TOWN LAND WITHOUT AUCTIO

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

SALE OF TOWN LAND WITHOUT AUCTIO

IN PARTICULAR CASES. An Ordinance* approved by the Government in 185S, farther provides that in particular cases, where considered advisable, the Wa«te Land Board may, ■'with the approval of :tho Superintendent and Executive Council, sell " Town Lands" without auction. The following are tiie important clauses. 1. In all cases wheruin parties shall apply by Petition to the Waste Land Board, setting forth the circumstances of-their case, it shall be lawful for tho Waste Land Board, with approval of the Superintendand and Executive Council fir.st obtained, to wall Town Land, except lands within the limits of the Towns of Dunedin and Port Chalmers, without exI posinjr the same to auction, at such price as shall be fixed by. the Waste Land Board and approved of as aforesaid, such price not"being less than the upset " price, if such land had been exposed to sale by auction. ! 2. If any Trustees for any religious body shall soj, apply for liberty to purchase a rite for a Church qr^ other buildings for religious purposes in any Town, it t shall be lawful for the Waste, Land Board, with the approval of the Superintendent and Executive Council first obtained, to sell to such Trustees for such purposes not exceeding one acre of land in any Town, without exposing the same to auction, at such prices as would have formed the upset price if the land had been exposed to sale by auction.

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penses incident to the rnlleotion. ninnsiq-pmpnt. and receipt thereof; i'iidiil-oi(>i a\ oi.tof the slid revenue's such sums ;(>- shall liwonie'i'iiynblil undi.i" oevMin other provi- m« thriein contained. The Treasurer of the'Ava'te 1 .n.ds Eoa'-d shnll. theiefore, pay out of all the fund-, roming into his band* under th«'°e regulations all such i?uio<! fur the alum -nan-pd puiTo--p*, in such minnicr and to such persons as the Covrmor shall direct. " V.— PT'VMO KKPKUVKS. 19. Rc-ervi-s- tor fhr ir-i-s of the Provincial Government nnd for iither .public purposes may, upon tin-i-coiun'iidutimi of the Piovincial Council, be made by th<- t>uperintfr.d(>i.t; mid shall not be alienated mim the specific pin poses to v Inch they shall have been severally dedicatf-d, except under the provisions of an Act of the'"General- Assembly, entituled thu " Public^Reserves Act, 1854;" and a full and complete description of every such' reserve and of the purposes to which it shall have been dedicated shall, as soon as possible after it shail have been made, be published in the Government Gazette of the Province. and set forth on the authenticated maps in.the Land Office. Provided that- the Superintendent may. il the Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily j reserve hind for such purposes untii tha next session ' of such Council.

20. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths, and font-paths, shall be made by the (Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Office. .The Superintendent and the Provincial Council liiay by Ordinance alter the line of any such highways, bridle-paths, and 'foot-paths, and dispose of the land theretofore used for the same.

21. The Superintendent may temporarily reserve any hind for the preservation or sale of the timber thereon; but such land may at any time cease to be so reserved upon a resolution of the Provincial Council.

22. Tl:e Superintendent may, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, reserve from the 'operation of these regulations'any tract of country in which the precious metals may be found to exist: and the land within such tract of country shall he disposed of according to regulations hereafter to be Issued and published -iv that behalf; in the same manner and under the same authority as these present regulations. VI. —TOWN LANDS. 23. The sites of towns shall be .determined by the Superintendent, upon the recommendation" of the Provincial Council, mid shall be notified by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province. 24. Town lands shall be sold by public auction, in sections, iho size and upset price of which shall be determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; anil having been so determined, for each town severally, shall liot again be altered. • i 25. The'line and place of every auction' sale shall | be fixed.by the Superintendent, and shall be notified in the Government Gazelle, and one or more newspapeis of the Province, at least thirty days befor" such sale shall take place. 26. No such notification of any sale of town lends shall be published'until a map of the town, signed by the Chief Purveyor; shall have been laid open for public inspection in the Land Office; and such reap •hall set-.'forth, accurately delineated., all the town ■sections numbered consecutively, so-tar as laid-out, showing the sections to he submitted for sale, and the public reserves in. connection with them. .. . 27. Town sections may be put u;Kfo auction, cither !iy order of the Superintendent, or upon tiie application of some person who shall, at the time of making such application, deposit ten per cent, of the upset price with" the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board. .Such deposits shall, if no advance on the upset price oe made, be considered as the deposit upon the sale at snch public auction. 28. H any section shall be purchased by other than the original applicant, the deposit money shall be forthwith returned on demand. ■ , 29. Ten days at least before any such auction sale, a list of all the sections about to be effrred for sale shall be published -in the Government Gazette, and one or more'newspapers'of the Province. SO. Every auction sale of land shall be held by the Commissioners in open court as hereinbefore, provided. 31. The person who shall be declared the highest liider at such, auction shall immediately pay a deposit often per cent, of the purchase money to* the 'lretisuroi'j and in default thereof, the section shall'be again .immediately put up to auction, paid to the Treasurer in full, within one week after. 39. The remainder of the pnri*lins<» money sbal ]!>e the day of sale y and, in default thereof, the pur chase shall forfeit his deposit money, and also al right or title to the land; and the section may be sold to any"person applying for the same for the price at which it was knocked down at the auction; and, if not so sold, the section may be again put up to, auction at any future sale. 33. Upon payment of the purchase money in fu11,.. the purchaser shall receive 'from the CSnrmissioners a" "License to Occupy," in the form" set forth in" Schedule A to the '"Waste Lands Regulations, and I such License shall be restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased. Til. —KUHAJ. LAND. 34. All lands not included in any of the foregoingregulations shall be open for sale as rural land, at an .uniform price of forty shillings per acre. 35. Save as Hereinafter provided,' no section of Rural Land shall be sold, containing less than twenty acres; but any section so limited by frontage lines or private lands as to contain less than twenty acres may he sold by auction at the upset price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place of'sale, and the mode of sale, and payment of purchase money to be as nearly as may be in accordance with the regulations herein contained applicable to the sale of Town Land. Provided, nevertheless, that if any section so liriiitbd shall be included in a Pasturage License with Preemptive Eight, the holder of such License shall be entitled to exercise ; sueh1 Pre-emptive Eight'•under, these Regulations upon payment of the sum of forty pounds for such section. 30. Every section of rural land shall be *n one block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage line ,shall be of a depth Of half a mile (or 40 chains) from such frontHge. Notk.—A frontage line shall be taken to wean the boundary of a road, rh-er^ or pubMc reserve, or any stream or watercourse which shall have been declared' by notification in the Government Gazette to constitute a frontage for the purpose of selection. 37. Where, from the frontage'not being a straight line or rom the interference of pther frontage lines, natural features, or the boundaries of private lands, the above rules in respect of form cannot be accurately observed, the form of the section shall be determined as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the judgment of the Board, circumstances will admit. 38. In"sections of lands not adjacent to cr bounded by a frontage line, all the sides may be equal, butone side may not be lessHhan one-third of the other; and such section shall not/be less than half a mile distant from a frontage line. . 39. Any person possessing a section of land may at any time'select another adjacent thereto, of such form thai the two together, being considered as one section, shall be in the form required'for a single section uuder the foregoina; rules.' 40. Immediately on the payment of the purchase money, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth in the Schedule B hereunto annexed; and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall be laid off by a Government Surveyoivas nearly in accordance with the description given By the purchaser in his application as these regulations will admit; provided that whenever the lands selected lie without the sun-eyed districts, the expense of the survey and of connecting such survey with the existing surveys shall be borne by the purchaser, who shall at the time of purchase deposit the amount of the estimated cost of such surveys with the Treasurer of the AVaste Lands Board, which shall be made as soon as practicable, by order of the Chief Surveyor. Provided a 1 ways,"that should any section when surveyed prove to diner in any respect from-that intended by the purchaser,, the Government will not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser may experience, nor will the purchase money be returned. Provided also, .that if the Surveyor shall find that the whole extent of land in the selected locality falls short of the quantity paid for by the purchaser, the Treasurer shall repay so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The " License to Occupy" shall, in any such case, he amended by the Commissioners, in accordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the Crown-Grant shall :be made out in accordance therewith; and the "License" shall be returned to the Commisaioners when the Crown Grant shall be ssued. ■■■""—■• 41. Any person making a ditch and bank fence on lands adjoining Waste Lands of the Crown may take out of such lands half the land required for the ditch and bank: provided that no ditcli or bank shall be more than six feet in width. , VIII.—COMPENSATION LANDS. . , : 42. Whereas it is desirable that private persons should be enabled toreceive portions of Waste Land in exchange for private lands taken for roads or forother public purposes; if any person shall be entitled1 to receive any compensation in respect of any land which shall have been taken for the purposes of a road or of any other public work, or in respect of anydamages done to his property by the taking of.such land lor such purposes, such person shall: uuon appli-: cation to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a 1 grant of rural land in such situation, as he shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage in, these regulations contained, tothe extent of one acrefor every two pounds sterling of the amount of compe'esation which the applicant shall'be entitled: to receive in respect of the land taken for such purposes' • c^.ißKspec^ofs^daiiiageasaforeaaid:,;

4!). If any person shall contract with the_ Superintendent to ir.tivc .i'hl ccipifte, v"I."" a given time, nn> public mad. hndye, uv dnni, or miv part of any *>uel> iimu, inid(:t', or drain, furin^'ii'it: -n< 'i security as the superiutciMont n ■} ii-quir- foi t1 • due completion of .such contract, :im' »• 'cl' Mich portion ot rural land sis Ik "hall lie wi'liim lo .tcei'i't by way of imviiii'iit >■>< cniiiti-ii^iMiin, m hv way »( nart payment or coD'^en-aimn ibi «uch york: it <hnll be lawful foi tin-Sii)h>riiii-tidi nt roriM-rw such portion of hind fioni public -ale for Mich ynon lime but no lonm'r; ai.d cir-h pi r-on iball, mi" tb' J completion ot Mich ronti.u't, be cntitU'ii to a fricgiaut of ".uch land, or <-o u.ui-li tiuii'oi as the flu.ud shall adjudge, not exceeding one aivc for every Vno pound- sterling "which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Board to be the butui jide value of the work so done by such person according to the prices for work and materials at the time of performing such contract current in the district.

iivery such reservation of land from public sale shail be published in the Government Gazette of the Province, as directed in clause 19 of these Regulations. .

No such reservation.shall continue in force fora longer period than twelve calendar months from the date on which it shall have been made.

No land included in a Pasturage License with Preemptive Right shall, as against the holder of such Pre-emptive Right, be so reserved or granted uutil he shall have been allowed the option of purchasing such land in the manner prescribed in clauses 04 and 66 to these Regulations.

No greater amount of land than 200 acres shall under the provisions of this clause be reserved or granted to any person under auy such contract, unless in payment of work for which a vote has been parsed by the Provincial Council. . No greater amount of land than 1000 acres in the aggregate shall, in any one year, be reserved or granted under the provisions of this clause, without the special sanction of the Provincial Council. Provided always that every parcel of land so granted . shall be subjected to the same jojiditions as to form and frontage as any rural hum so i under these Regulations ; provided also tha 1 ho application for less than 20 acres.shall be received under this clause, but that where any amount of compensation awarded by the Board shall be of less extent, than 20 acres of land, the person entitled may pay the balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants for the purchase of rural lands under-these Regulations. ix.—sAtai and kiutary houstie's. 44. Whereas the Superintendent ami the Provincial Council and other the inhabitants of Canterbury are desirous to aid in making provision for the maintenance cf such persons of Her Majesty's land and sea forces as may be discharged as unfit, for further service in .consequence of wounds or loss of health I incurred in the present war with Russia, and also for I the maintenance of the widows of those who may be killed in such.war:— . . . Any such person or widow srall, upon application to the Wastt; Lands Board, and ujiou the production of satisfactory evidence from the proper authorities ss to such discharge or death, be entitled to recMve a free grant Jiot exceeding !30 acres of the .WasteLands within this-Province,1 subject to-'the conditions as to form, and frontage contained in these Regulations; provided nlways that such application shall be made to the V\ nste Lands Board by such person, or widow in pprso»j within three years after such discharge or death.' ■'..-.. '.-. - . X. —PASTURAGE. 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public purposes as hiiyiu provided, the-Waste Lauds maybe occupied for paslurnge .purposes by j:c.T.-:ons hoiflinglicenses from the Waste Lands Board to occupy the same. .. ' 46. Any person applying- for a pasturage license sbap state to the Commissioners what are the boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and th« number and description oi' the -stock which lie possesses, or will undertake to place upon the run within twelve months from the date of the license. 47. The .extent, of run allowed to each-applicant shall be at the rate of 120 acres to every head of givnt cattle,, and 20 acres to every head of small ctittle. The words" great cattle" shall be, construed to mean horned cattle, horses, mules, and asses, r:«i!e and female, with their offspring above six months of age ; and the words "small cattle" shall be construed to mean sheep, male and tL-inale, with their weaned offspring. . . - '48.'Every pasturage run shall be in one block,- and, as far ...as. circumstances will admit, of a rectangular form : the frontage, under ordinary circumstances, shall not be greater than one-half the depth. ■ . , 49. The fee to be paid for the .license shall be at the ollbwing rates:—For every run containing less ■■ than 1000 seres, twenty"■ shillings for every hundred acres; for every rim containing 1000 acres, and Hot less than 5000 aci es, two-pence per acre for the first thousand and one penny per acre for every acre in addition. TiVir pvpi:v •'.'"",■, CP niain'. Ii";Jj"0O;, a<?r.P-S. o^ntra-jinis, ■'onefarthingper acre for the first and second years, one hull-penny per acre for the third and fourth years, three-farthings per acre for the fifth and every subsequent year; provided that the first year shall be takento he the time elapsing from the date of the original license to the first day of May next following. 50. No pasturage license shall be granted for a less annual fee than £2 10s. . 51. The fee shall be paid to the Treasurer, of the Waste Land Board every year, in advance; for the first year on the issue of the license, and for the second and every subsequent year on any sitting day of the Board, between the 20th day of April and the first day 'of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not .renewed by payment of the required fi;e, o:i or before .the first day of May, shall, unless good cause to the contrary be shown to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board, be considered ar, abandoned. * '. 52.'..Every pasturage license shall be in the form set Vfbrth in the Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set fort.hjn, such Schedule, and such transfer .shall be deemed to cc complete upon notice thereof being duly giveu to the Waste Lauds Board, and not before, ■A pasturage license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the land specified therein upon the terms above stated. ■ Such license shall be renewed by: endorsement from year to year, 'until the land specified, therein shall be pureha«c-d, granted, or l^jserved-under these regulations; and-the fee to be paid in respect of such-license shall not be altered until the Ist May, 1870. Such license shall give no right to the soil or to the timber, and shall immediately determine o per auy land which may be purchased, granted, or reserved under tiiese regulations. A reasonable right of way shall.be allowed through all pasturage runs. . . , ' . ~ 58. It at any time during the first four yeais after the issue of the 'first license, the quantity ■of stock for the run shall be less than that originally required, or during this next three years less than twice that amount, or during any subsequent period less than three, times that amount, the Waste Lands Board may "declare .the. whole or a portion of such run to be forfeited;; provided always that with'regard, .to runs granted prior to the issue of these Regulations such first period of four years shall commence from the date on which these Regulations shall come into operation : provided that one or more runs held by the same individual or firm ; may for the purposes of this clause he considered as one ."run. '....:.■■

54. In any case in which a runholder can prove to the1 satisfaction of the .Waste Lands Board that he is precluded by arrangements entered into previous to the passing of these regulations from actually, for a given period, placing his stoekon his own run, it shall be sufficient if ho prove to the satisfaction of the Board that he .possesses, within the Province the requisite amount of stock, and will undertake to place the same n the run at the expiration of such peoiod. 55. Every holder of a license shall, at any time, upon a written ofder from the "Waste Lands Board to that effect, make a-true and complete return of all the stock on his run; and if he shall wilfully arid knowingly make any false return, the Waste Lands Board shall immediately declare his license to be forfeited.

56. Every run or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as above provided, shall be put up by the Waste Lauds Board to public auction, after an ad- • vertisenl'ent in: the Government Guzstto, and one or more newspapers of the -Province. A license granted after forfeiture shall be deemed to be an originaUiceuse. Upon appeal from- any person whose run has been forfeited, within CO days fern the date of such forfeiture^ it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve or suspend such forfeiture either wholly or in part. - 57. • livery person taking; out a license for arun which is not stocked will be required to deposit with the Treasurer the sura often shillings for every hundred acres included in the license, which will be returned without interest as soon as he shall have fulfilled the conditions m respcct s to stocking the run within the prescribed period; but if such conditions be not fulfilled such deposits shall be forfeited - • ■ -. 58. The above rules in respect to stocking a run, and to the lodgment of the money with the Treasurer, shall not apply to.'Tins containing less than 5000 acres. 59. Every holder of a license may be required at any time to pay for the actual cost of the survey of his run at a rate not exceedingSOs. for every thousand acres.-. •■:.■. •■ „'■■ ■. ; ; .. '■;■■■■•■*■•■■:■ ■ ii6o. Every holder of a pasturage license shall, upon application .to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a pre-emptive right over portions, of his run, as follows :—For a run of not.less han 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, o\er a block of laud comprising and circumjacent to his homestead to the extent of 5 per cent of the-acreage of the run. For a run of 5,000 acres and upwards, over 250 acres of land com- I prising and circumjacent to his homestead or principal station. And for all runs, over all lands occupied by any buildings, -enclosures, plantations, cultivations, .or,-any such otherimprovements as shall in'the judgment of the Waste Lands Board be deemed sufficient for the purposes of this clause, together with fifty acres comprising and circumjacent to the land 3so oc«»pied or improved. . . -

61. The Licensee shall at the time of his application to the Boinl give a sufficient description hi the lan.is over whicn hi- daims such pi-c-uinptivc ritfht, to t'lo satisfaction of fiic Chief ciurvevor. And r.he same «!i.n'l he marked oii'on he authenticated Maps in the i Land <>!?«•«. b'2. Tiie hinds included in"such pre-emptive ri<?ii may be of .such form as thu applicant s'lail choose : but any laud purchased by him in the exercise of such right shall be subject to the regulations as to form and frontage heroin contained. 63. Tin; Waste-Lands Board shall not receive nor entertain :my application to purchase, from any person other than the runholder, tlm aforesaid block around the homestead or principal station which does not include the whole of sutih block. 04. The right of pre-emption hereby (riven shall be exercised within one week for all lauds within twenty miles of the Land Olficc, at Cliristchurch; mid within one month for all lands at a greater distance therefrom ; such time being reckoned from the date of service of a written notice from the Waste Lauds .Board, .setting1 forth a copy of the application, for any of the lands included in the pre-emptive right. Such notice may be served either personalty on the rnuhokler, or by leaving the sa-.no at his last-known place of abode within the Province, or at the-principal homestead or station on the run. 05. The applicant for any rural land included in any pre-emptive right sliali deposit with tiie Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a sum equal to -ts. per acre of the purchase money, and the remainder he shall pay within one week from the date of his application being granted, or forfeit such deposit. Such deposit, however, shall be immediately returned on demand, if the holder of the pre-emptive right shall give notice of his intention to purchase any portion of the land applied for, and pay the requisite deposit. 66. If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the land applied for, he shall forthwith puy to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a deposit of 4s. per acre of the purchase money of such portion; and, if he shall not n:'- ;\t six weeks thereafter have paid the remainder oi i.t& pavchase money, he shall forfeit such deposit, together with all rig-lit or title to tiie land. If the holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause 00 of the Waste Lands Regulations shall neglect or refuse to purchase any portion of the land,applicd for, such portion shall from and immediately after Mich neglect or refusal be released from all right of pre-emption and opi-ii to purchase on the terviss of these Regulations, as if thu, same had not been included in any pre-emptiveright. 67. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive right in connection witli purchased lauds, whether uuder the Canterbury Association or the Crown, shall, from and after the "first day of April, one thousand eight hundred mid fiftwsix, by. taken and deemed to be pasturage licenses over the lands included therein, upon the terms of these. Regulations, with a preemptive right over ail such laud, to bo exercised snbect fo those Regulations as regards notice of application, puymL'iit of deposit, purchase money, price ol land, and size and shape of' blocks. If t!ie land covered by such pre-emptive right shall be included within' thf: limits of a run held by license uuder clauses 50 and S3, the holder thereof in payingrent for the same may take credit for the amount paid \\y him in respect of lands covered by such pre-emp-tive right. OS. Holders of pasturage licenses without pre--oniptive right shall be entitled to hold such licenses or to iiave them.renewed upon the tornis of .their contract with tile Canterbury Association or the Crown, as the case may be; but ii uny ,_jk'.i-.-:oii holding a license under the Canterbury Association -uv ihe Crown .'hill voluntarily resign the same, he shall bb entitled to recuiyu v license under these Regulations, and shall from tiie date of such exchange hold his run. at the rate and on tiie conditions specified in these Regulations. 09. If any person exchanging his license shall for any period included in the ncwliCunse have paid rent at a .higher rate than would be payable uuder such license, such overpayment shall he adjusted at the next payment of rent. , 70. In the event ot improvements having been effected by the licensee of a run on any land which sjiai) be reserved by tiie General Government or by the .Provincial Government under these Regulations, the liceuseeoi, shall receive ..payment' of the value of such improvements, such value to be decided by arbitration under direction 'of-the Waste Lands Hoard, and to be paid by the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board out of the land fund. 71. All payments on account of pasturage runs shall in future be made oil or before the first day o May, in accordance with clause 51, at tiie Land Office, at Christelnirch, and the Waste Lands Board shall sit at that place for the Treasurer to receive the same. ' 72' AilpaNnnents'td T)'e"tnac!e on account of pasturage runs before the first day of May next ensuing shall be made for the portion" of the year only whicS shall elapse between such day of payment and the said first day of May. 73. In calculating the amount of the license fee and the stock" required to be on tha run, the year commencing on the said first day 'of May shall be deemed to be the same year as that for which sucii part payment shall have been made. 74. Notwithstanding' anything- contained in these regulations, it shall be lawful for'the Governor, upon t'tp rrfftminnndation of tlie Siniprijifpiujpnt nm\ "Provincial Couuii, at any timo^and from time fo time, be proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province, to reserve for the purposes hereinafter mentioned any lands within the Province, adjacent to or in the neighbourhood of any to\vn ; now-or which may hereafter be formed, arid to declare that on and from a day to bo named in such proclamation all depasturing licenses issued undnr theso regulations, in respect of such reserved lands, shall ee.ise and be of no effect; on and from which nay, all such licenses shall, as respects such lands, cease and be of no effect accordingly. And.it shall bo lawful for the Governor at any time, hereafter, by regulations to bo issued in that behalf, according to the provisions of the Waste Lands Act,' upon the recommendation of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, to'regulate the occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within such reserved districts. ■ TIMBER. 75. If any tract of land shall have been reserved for the sale of the timber thereon, such timber may be sold by public auction at an upset price and subject to conditions to be fixed by the Superintendent, and the purchaser shall auTce to remove the same within a certain time; and all the timber not, removed within such time may be again put up to public auction. 76. No person shall, without a licenss, cut or remove any timber from an/Waste Lands of the Crown (except timber which he shall have purchased under the last clause);. and any persons so cutting or removing timber shall be liable to pay the cost of such license for one year together witli the costs of recovering the amount of the same. ..'.'. 77. Every license for cutting or removing timber shall be issued for one month, or for one year, at the request of the person applying for the same; and fee of 10s. shall' be paid upon every monthly license, and of £oupon every yearly license. . 78. A license shall entitle no one but the person named therein toi cut down standing timber, but it will authorise him to employ any number of persons, during the term of the license, to saw, split, or remove the timber so cut; and such license shall not be transferable. ; 79. A license to cut timber shall extend only to the district named therein. 80. If any person duly licensed shall have established a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other person shall cut timber'within 50 yards of such pit without consent of the person first occupying such saw-pit; provided that if the person establishing such pit shall not use the same, and shall not cut timber within such distance as aforesaid from the pit for 28 consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any other holder of a license to enter thereupon, and to cut timber as though such pit had not been established. 81. If any person shall, for the purpose of removing timber, have made a road upon land being the Waste Lands of the Crown and not being a highway, it shall not be lawful for any other person to use the same without the permission of the person making the same first obtained; provided that if such road shall not be used at any time for QQ consecutive da^s, it shall be lawful for any holder of a license at any time thereafter to use the same. ;- -82. If any person holding a timber license shall be proved before the Waste Lands : Board to have offended against any regulations herein contained respecting timber, or to have wilfully or negligently inured or destroyed by fire or otherwise .any timber belonging to the Crown, such license shall be, and shall be immediately declared to be forfeited, and it shall be at the discretion of the Board to refuse to issue another timber license to-.the same person.