REGULATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 163, 24 May 1862, Page 3

REGULATIONS

FOR THE DISPOSAL, SALE, LETTING AND OCCUPATION OF THE WASTE LANDS OF TIIE CROWN IN THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY: AS AMENDED. 1. A 3LL Regulations now in force in the ProXjL vince of Canterbury for the sale, letting, disposal, ancl occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown are hereby repealed. 2. All such Waste Lands shall, fi-om nnd after the day on which these Regulations shall come into force, be sold, let, disposed of, and occupied according to these Regulations, and not otherwise. 3. Every Act which the Superintendent is hereby authorised or required to perform he shall perform solely in accordance with the advice of his Executive Council for the time being, nnd such advice shall be recorded on the minutes ofthe Council. lI.—THE WASTE LANDS BOARD. 4. There shall be established a Board to be called the Waste Lands Board, to consist of one Chief Commissioner, and of not less than two nor more than five other Commissioners, all of whom (except such one as shall be nppointed to net as Treasurer) sliall be appointed and bo removable by warrant under the hand of the Superintendent. 5. One member of the Waste Lands Board shall 'also he the Treasurer thereof, and such member shall be appointed and removable by the Governor. 6. The Waste Lands Board shall sit at the principal Lnnd Office of the Province, at certain stated times to be determined by the Superintendent, and shall also sit for special purposes at such places and at such times ns tho Superintendent sliall direct; of which sittings due notice slinll be given in the Provincial Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers published in the Province. 7. The Chief Commissioner when present, nnd in liis absence then some member selected by those present at any meeting ofthe Board, shall preside thereat, and shall have a casting vote in all questions coming before the Board. 8. All questions coming before the Board sliall be decided by a majority of the Commissioners present thereat. 9. All meetings of the Board sliall be attended by nt least three Commissioners, and shnll be open to the public. 10. All applications for Lnnd and for Pasturage and for Timber Licenses shall, after hearing evidence when necessary, be determined by the Board at some sitting thereof. 11. The Board sliall have power to hear and determine all disputes between the holders of Pasturage and Timber Licenses respecting the boundaries of runs and districts, and shall have and exercise all the powers wliich may be lawfully had and exercised by nny Commissioner of Crown Lands, under the provisions of the " Crown Lands Ordinance, Sess. X., No. 1;" and the "Crown Lands Extension Ordinance, Sess. XL, No. 10." 12. All tho routine business of the Lnnd Depart-, ment sliall be transacted by the Chief Commissioner, subject tc such regulations as may be made by the Board in that behalf. 13. A book to be called the " Application Eook" shall be kept open during office hours at the Land Office, in which the name of every person desiring to make any application to the Board sliall be written in order by himself or any person duly authorised on liis behalf. Ancl the Commissioners shall, during the sitting of the Board, consider and determine all applirations in the order iv which they shnll appear in the application book. Provided that if any person shal not appear himself or by some person duly authorisd on Ms behr.'f before the Board when called in liis turn, his appi.'ation shnll be dismissed until his name shall appear again in the Book in order. Provided also that if two or more persons slinll apply at the same time to write their names in the Application Book the Chief CtmmL's.'oner shnll bracket their ames, and shall initial the bracket; and when* they all appear before the Board, the Board shall determine the priority of right to he hard by lot. And it shall not be lawful for the Board to hear any application except such as shall be made in accordance with this regulation. 14. The Board sliall keep true nnd detniled minutes of all applications made to the Board, and all decisions thereon, and of nil sums of money paid to the Treasurer, and generally of all the proceedings of the Board; and such minutes shall be sigi_°.d by all the Commissioners present at any meeting-. And such minutes shall be open to the inspection of all persons desiring to inspect the same, at all reasonable hours, on payment ot the sum of two shillings and sixpence for every such inspection. lII.—SIJRVETS. 15. There shall be a Chief Surveyor who shall be appointed and removable by Warrant under the hnnd ofthe Superintendent, ancl as many ssistant Surveyors as shall be necessary, who sliall oe apppinted and immoveable by the Superintendent upon the recommendation of the Chief Surveyor. 16. All surveys shall be conducted in such manner as the Board by any regulations to be made in that behalf shall direct. IV.—THE LAND REVENUE. 17. All payments to be made in respect of land shnll be made to the Treasurer of the Board during the sitting thereof^ and the Treasurer shall thereupon give receipts for the same. 18.—By the' 62nd clause of the Constitution Act the Governor is authorised and required to pay out of the revenue arising from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown all the costs charges, and ex-

penses incident to the collection, management, and receipt thereof; nnd also to pay on t ofthe said revenues such sums as shall become "payable under certain other provisions therein contained. The Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board shall, therefore, pay out of all the funds coming into his hands under these regulations nil such sums for the above-named purposes, iv such manner nnd to such persons as the Governor shall direct. V.—PUEL'C RESERVES. 19. Reserves for the uses ofthe Provincial Govern^ ment and for other public purposes may, upon the ecommendatidii ofthe Provincial Council, be-made, by the Superintendent; and shall not be alienate!^ from the specific purposes to which they shall hayes"; been severally dedicated, except under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly, entituled the " Public Reserves Act, 180-1;" nnd a full and complete description of eveiy such reserve and of the purposes to which It shall have been dedicated sliall, as soon as possible after it shall have been made, be published in the Government Gazette ofthe Province, and set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Oflice. Provided that the Superintendent may. if the Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily reserve land for such purposes until the next session of such Council. 20. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths, shall be made by"the Superintendent, and sliall be set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Oflice. The Superintendent and the Provincial Council may 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 land for the preservation or sale of the timber thereon; hut such land may at any time cease to be so reserved upon a resolution of the Provincial Council. 22. The Superintendent may, upon the recommendation ofthe Provincial Council, by proclamation in tin: 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 witliin such tract of country sliall be disposed o according to regulations hereafter to be issued and published in that behalf; in the same manner and under the same authority as these present regulations . '". TI. —TOWN LANDS. 23. The sites of towns shall be determined by the Superintendent, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, and shall be notified by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province. 24. Town Lands shall bo sold by public auction, in sections, the size and upset price of wluch shall be determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; and having heen so determined, fbr each town severally, shall not again bo altered. 25. The time and place of every auction sale shall be fixed by the Superintendent, and shall be notified in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the Province, at least thirty days befor" such sale shall take place. 20. No such notification of any sale of town lands shall be published until a map of' the town, signed by tlie Chief Surveyor, slinll have been laid open for public inspection in the Land Oflice; and such map shall set loith, accurately delineated, all the town sections numbered consecutively, so far as laid out, showing tbe sections to be submitted for sale, and the public reserves in connection with them. £7. Town sections may be put up to auction, either' by order ofthe Superintendent, or upon the application of some person who shall, at the time of making such application, deposit ten per cent, of the upset j 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 nt such public auction. 28. It 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 offered for sale shall be published in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers ofthe Province. 30. Every auction sale of land shall be held by the Commissioners in open court as hereinbefore provided. 31. The person who sliall be declared the highest hider at such auction shall immediately pay a deposit of ten per cent, of the purchase money to the Trensuror, and in default thereof, the section sliall be again immediately put up to auction, paid to the 'lYeasuror in full, within one week after 32. The remninder of the purchase money shal llio the day of sale: and, in default thereof, the pur chase shall forfeit his deposit money, and also al right or i-itle to the land; and the section may lie sold to any person applying fbr the same for the price nt 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 full, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth in Schedule A to the AVaste Lands Regulations, and such License shall be restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased. TU. —RURAL LAND. 34. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be open for sale as rural land, at an uniform nrice of forty shilling's 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 be 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 limited shall be- included in a Pasturage License with Preemptive Right, the holder of such License slinll be entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Right under these Regulations upon payment of the sum of forty pounds fbr such sectiou. 30. Every section of rural land shall be in one block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form, aud if bounded by a frontage line ,shall be of a depth of half a mile (or 40 chains) fi-om such iron tage. NoTii.—A frontage line shall be taken to mean the boundary of a rond7 river ; or public 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 other 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 ns nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the judgment ofthe Board, circumstances will admit. 38. In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded by a frontage line, all the sides may be equal, but one side may not be less than one-third ofthe other; and such section shall not be less than half a mile distant fi-om a frontage Hne. 39. Any person possessing a section of land may at any time' select another adjacent thereto, of such form that the two together, being considered as one section, shall be in the form required for a single section under the fcregoine; 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 Surveyor, as 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 surveyed districts, the expense of the survey and of connecting such survey with the existing surveys sliall be borne by the purchaser, who sliall at the time of purchase deposit the amount of the estimated cost of such surveys with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board, wliich shall be made as soon as practicable, by order of the Chief Surveyor. Provided a'ways, that should any section when surveyed prove to differ 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 ot the quantity paid for by the purchaser, the Treasurer shall repay so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price ofthe land to be conveyed. The "License to Occupy" shall, in any such ea.se, be 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 Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall be 41. Any person making a ditch and bank fence on lands adjoining Waste Lands of the Crown may take out of slcH lands half tbe land required for the ditch and bank: provided that no ditch or bank shall be more than six feet in width. Tin. —compensation lands. 42. Whereas it is desirable that private persons should be enabled to receive portions of Waste Land in exchange for private lands taken for roads or for other public purposes; if any person sliall be entitled to receive any compensation in respect of any land wliich shall have been taken for the purposes of a road or of any other public work, or in respect of any damages done to his property by the taking of such land for such purposes, such person shall, unon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a grant of rural land in such situation as he shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage in these regulations contained, to the extent of one acre for every two pounds sterling of the amount of compensation which the applicant shall be entitled to receive in respect of tlie land taken for such purposes er ia respect ef such damage as aforesaid,

43. If any person shall contract with the Superintendent to make and complete, witliin a given time, any public rood, bridge, or drain, or any part of any such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing sueli security as the Superintendent, may require for the due completion of such contract, and shall select such portion of rural lnnd as he shall he willing to accept by way of p.iyment or compensation, or by way uf part, payment or compensation for such work ; it shall be lawful tor the Superiiitendent to reserve such portion o land from public sale for such given time but no longer; and nuch person shall, on the completion of ..fiyfch contract, be entitled to a free grant of such land, g£r so much thereof as the Board shall adjudge, not ■; exceeding one acre for every two pounds sterling which the Superintendent shall certify to'the Waste Lands Board to be the bonajide value ofthe work so done by such person according to the prices for work ancl materials at the time of performing such contract current in the district. Every such reservation of land from public sale shall be published in the Government Gazette of the Province, as directed in clause 19 of these Regulations. No such reservation shall continue in force for n longer period than twelve calendar montlis 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 until he shall have been allowed the option of purchasing such land in the manner prescribed in clauses 04 and 00 to these Regulations. No greater amount of land than 250 acres shnll under the provisions of this clause be reserved or granted to any person under any such contract, unless in payment of work for whicli a vote has been passed 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 ofthe Provincial Council. Provided always that every parcel of land so granted shall be subjected to the same sondilions as to form and frontage as any rural lann so under those Regulations; provided also tha .no application for less thnn 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 laud, 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.—NAVAL AND MILITARY BOUNTIES. 44. Whereas the Superintendent and the Provincial Council and other the inhabitants of Canterbury are desirous to aid in making provision for the maintenance of such persons of "Her Alajesty's land and sea forces ns may be discharged as unfit for further service in consequence of wounds or loss of health incurred in the present war with Russia, and also for the maintenance of the widows of those who may be killed in such war:— Any such person or widow stall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence fi'om the proper authorities ns to such discharge or death, be entitled to receive a tree grant not exceeding 30 acres of the Waste Lands within this Province, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage contained in these Regulations; provided always that such application shall be made to the Waste Lands Board by such person or widow in person within three years after such discharge or death. X. —PASTURAGE. 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public purposes as herein provided, the Waste Lands may he occupied for pasturage purposes by persons holcliiiglicenses from the Waste Lands Board to occupy the same. 40. Any person applying- for a pasturage license sliall state to the Commissioners wkat are tlie boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and the number and description of the stock which he possesses, or will undertake to place upon the run witliin twelve months from the date of the license. 47. The extent of run allowed to eacli applicant shall be at the rate of 120 acres to every head of great cattle, and 20 acres to every head of small cattle. Tlie words " great cattle" shall be construed to mean horned cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male and female, with their offspring above six months of age; and the words "small cattle" sliall be construed to meantf sheep, male aud female, with their weaned offspring. 48. Every pasturage run shall bo in one block, nnd, 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. Tlie fee to be paid for the license shall be at the ollowing rates: —For every run containing less than 1000 acres, twenty shillings fbr every hundred acres; ior every run containing- iOOO acres, and not less than 5000 aciea, two-pence per acre for the first thousand and one penny per acre for every acre in addition. For every. run enntainine- 5000 an-es or upwards, one farthing per acre fbr the first and second years, oiie half-penny per acre for tho third and fourth years, three-farthings per acre for the fifth and every subsequent year; provided that the first year shall be taken to be the time elapsing from the date of the original license to the first day of Alay next following-. 50. No pasturage license shall be granted for a less annual fee than _L 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 20lh day of April and the first day of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not renewed hy payment of the required fee, on or before the fust day of Alay, shall, unless good cause to the contrary be shown to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board, be considered as abandoned. 52. Every pasturage license shnll be in the form set forth in the Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable by endorsement iv the form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer sliall be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof being duly given to the Waste Lands 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 purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations; and the tec 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 detenuine over any land whicli may be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable right of way shall be allowed through all pasturage runs. 53. It at any time during the first four years after the issue of the first license the quantity of stock for the run shall be less than that originally required, or during the 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 be considered as one run. 54. In any case n which a runholder can prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board thnt he is precluded by arrangements eivtered into previous to the passing of these regulations fi-om actually, for a given period, placing his stock on his own run, it shall be sufficient if he prove to the satisfaction of the Board that he possesses witliin 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 order from the Y/aste Lands Board to that effect, make a true and complete return of all the stock on his run ; and if he shall wilfully and 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 Lands Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers ofthe Province. A license granted after forfeiture shall be deemed to be an original license. Upon appeal from any person whose run has been forfeited, within 60 days from the date of such forfeiture, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve or suspend such forfeiture either wholly or in part. 57. Every person taking out a lirense for a run which is not stocked will be required to deposit with the Treasurer the sum of ten shillings for every hundred acres included in the license, which will be returned without interest as soon as he sliall have fulfilled the conditions in respect 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 runs 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 exceediue;2os. for eveiy thousand acres. 60. 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 ban 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, over a block of land comprising and circumjacent to lus homestead to the extent of 5 per cent ofthe acreage of the run. For a run of 5,000 acres and upwards,"over 250 acres of land comprising 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 other improvements 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 lands so occupied or improved.

60. 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 ban 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, over a block of land comprising and circumjacent to lus homestead to the extent of 5 per cent ofthe acreage of the run. For a run of 5,000 acres and upwards,"over 250 acres of land comprising 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 other improvements 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 lands so occupied or improved.

61. The Licensee shall at the lime ot his npnlicatiun to the Bowl give a sufficient description of tlie landover widen lie claims such pre-emptive rignt, to the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor. And the same shall be marked off on he authenticated Maps in the Land Office. 62. The lands included in such pre-emptive righ may be of such form as the applicant shall choose ; but any land purchased by him in tbe exercise of such right shall be subject to tlie regulations as to form and frontage herein contained. 63. The Waste Lands Board sliall not receive nor entertain any application to puranise, from any person other than the runholder, the aforesaid block around the homestead or principal station which does not include the whole of such block. 64. The right of pre-emption hereby given shall ho exercised witliin one week for all lands within twenty miles of the Land Office, at Christchurch; and witliin one month for all lands at a greater distance therefrom; such time being reckoned fi-om the date of service of a written notice from the Waste Lands Board, setting- forth a copy of the application for any of the lands included iv tho pre-emptive right. Such notice may be served either personally on the runholder, or by leaving the same at his last-known place of abode within the Province, or at the principal homestead or station on the run. 65. The applicant for any rural land included in an j' pre-emptive rig-lit shall deposit with the Treasurer ofthe Waste Lands Board a sum equal to 4s. 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 ior, and pay the requisite deposit. 06. If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the land applied for, he sliall forthwith pay 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 wi'l^l iix weeks thereafter have paid the remainder of tl* parchase money, he shall forfeit such deposit, together with all right or title to tlie land. If tlie holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause CO of the Waste Lauds Regulations shall neglect or refuse to purchase any portion ofthe land applied for, such portion shall from and immediately after such neglect or refusal be released from all right of pre-emption and open to purchase on the terms of these Regulations, as if the same had not been included in any pre-emptive right. 67. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive right in connection with purchased lauds, whether under the Canterbury Association or the Crown, shall, from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to be pasturage licenses over the lands included therein, upon the terms of these Regulations, with a preemptive right over all such land, to be exorcised subcet to these Regulations as regards notice of application, payment of deposit, purchase money-, price ot land, and size and shape of blocks. If the land covered by such pre-emptive right sliall be included witliin the limits of a run held by license under clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof in paying rent for the same may take credit for the amount paid by him in respect of lands covered by such pre-emp-tive right. 63. Holders of pasturage licenses without preemptive right sliall be entitled to hold such licenses or to have them renewed upon the terms of their contract with the Canterbury Association or the' Crown, as the case may be; but if any person holding a license under the Canterbury Association or the Crown shall voluntarily resign the same, he shall be entitled to receive a license under these Regulations, aud shall from the date of such exchange hold his run at the rate and oil the conditions specified in these Regulations. 69.' If any person exchanging his license sliall for any period included in the new'license have paid rent at a higher rate than would bo payable under such ] license, such overpayment shall be adjusted at the next payment of rent. 70. In tho event ot improvements having been effected by the licensee of a run on any land which shall be reserved by the General Government or by the Provincial Government under these Regulations, the licenseee shall receive payment' of tlie value of such improvements, such value to be decided by arbitration under direction of the Waste Lands Board, 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 on or before the first day o Alay, in accordance with clause 51, at the Land Oihce, at Christchurch, and the Waste Lands Board shall sit at that place for the Treasurer to receive the same. 72 All payments to be made on account of pasturage runs before the first day of Alay next ensuing sliall bo made for the portion of the year only whicli shall elapse between such day of payment and the said first day of May. 73. In calculating the amount ofthe license fee and the stock required to be on the run, the year commencing on the said first day of Alay shall be deemed to be the same year as that for which such part payment sliall have been made. 74. Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon the recommendation ot the Superintendent and Provincial Counil, at any time, and from time to time, be proclamation in the Govertwnent Gazette of the Province, to reserve for the purposes hereinafter mentioned any lands within the Province, adjacent to or in the neighbourhood of any town, now or wluch may hereafter be formed, and to declare that on and from a dny to be named in such proclamation all depasturing licenses issued under these regulations, in respect of such reserved lands, shall cease and be of no effect; on and fi-om whicli day, all such licenses shall, as respects such lands, cease and be of no effect accordingly. And it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time, hereafter, by regulations to be issued in that behalf according to the provisions of the Waste Lands Act, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent ancl Provincial Council, to regulate the occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown witliin 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 agree to remove the same within a certain time; aud all the timber not removed witliin such time may be again put up to public auction. 76. No person sliall, without a license, cut or remove any timber from any 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 with the costs of recovering the amount of the same. 77. Every license for cutting or removing timber sliall be issued for one month, or for one year, at the request of the person applying for the same; and a fee of 10s. shall be paid upon every montldy license, and of £5 upon every yearly license. 78. A license shall entitle no one but the person named therein to cut down standing timber, but it will authorise him to employ any number of persons, during the term ofthe 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 tho district named therein. 80. If any person duly licensed shall have established a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other person sliall 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 sliall not use the same, and shal! not cut timber within such distance as aforesaid fi-om 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 ofthe Crown and not being a highway, it shall not be lawful for any other person to use the same without the permission qf the person making the same first obtained; provided that if such road shall not be used at any time for 90 consecutive da;-s, it shall be lawful for any holder of a license at any time thereatter 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 ofthe Board to refuse to issue another