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Otago Daily Times, Issue 166, 28 May 1862, Page 7

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If any person shall contract with the Superins tendent to make and complete, within a given time, a any public road, bridge, or drain, or any part of any f such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing such security 1 as the Superintendent may require fbr the due com- - pletion of such contract, and shall select such portion 1 of rural land as he shall be willing to accept by way r of payment or compensation, or by way of part payment or compensation for such work; it sliall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve such portion o - land from public sale for such given time but no 3 longer; and ouch person shall, on the completion of > such contract, be entitled to a free grant of such land, 1 or so much thereof as the Board sliall adjudge, not ; exceeding one acre for every two pounds sterlh.g 5 which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste ; Lands Board to be the bond fide value of the work so . done by such person according to the prices for work s and materials at the time of performing such contract , current in the district. s Every such reservation of land from public sale , shall be published in the Government Gazette of the I Province, as directed in clause 19 of these Regulaf tions. - No such reservation shall continue in force for a 1 longer period than twelve calendar montlis from the date on which it shall have been made. [ No land included in a Pasturage License with Prei emptive 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 1 such land in the manner prescribed in clauses 64 and • 66 to these Regulations. No greater amount of land than 250 acres shall ! under the provisions of this clause be reserved or • granted to any person under any such contract, unless in payment of work for which 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 jonditions as to form and frontage as any rural lana so under these Regulations; provided also that no 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.—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 Majesty's land and sea forces as 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 shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence from the proper authorities as to such discharge or death, be entitled to receive a free grant not exceeding- 30 acres ofthe Waste Lands within this Province, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage contained in these Regulations; provided always that such application shaU be made to the Waste Lands Board by such person or widow in person within tln-ee years after such discharge or death. ' X.—PASTURAGE. - 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public purposes as herein provided, the Waste Lands maybe occupied for pasturage purposes by persons holdinglicenses from the Waste Lands Board to occupy the same. , :,'..! 46. Any person applying for a pasturage license shall state to the Commissioners what are tlie boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and the number and • description ofthe stock "which he possesses, or will undertake to place upon thejpm within twelve months from tlie date of the licensed* 47. The extent of run allowed to each applicant shall be at the rate of 120 acres.to every head of great cattle, and 20 acres to every head of small cattle. The words " great cattle" shall be construed to mean horned cattle, hoises, mules, and asses, male and female, with tlieir offspring above six.montlis of age; and the words " small cattle" shall be construed to mean sheep, male and female, 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 snail be at the ollowing- rates:—For every run containing less than 1000 acres, twenty shillings for every hundred acres; for every run containing-1000 acres, and not. less than 5000 acres, two-pence per acre for the first'thousand and one penny per acrtffor every acre in addition. For every run containiner 5000 acres or upwards,: one farthing per acre for the first and second-years, one half-penny per acre for the third and fourth years, tliree-farthiugs per acre for the fifth and every subsequent year; provided, that the first year shall betaken to be tiie 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 £210s. , :; 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 ofthe license, and for the second and every subsequent year on any sitting day ofthe 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 fee, on 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 as abandoned. 52. Every pasturage license shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer shall 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 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 over any land which may be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations., A reasonable right of way shall.be allowed through all pasturage runs. : 53. Il 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 J during the next three years less than twice tliat 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 fi-om the date on which these Regulations shall come into operation: provided that one or more runs held by the same individual or firm may tor the purposes of this clause be considered as one run. ■'■ 54. In any ease n which a runholder can prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board tliat he is precluded by arrangements entered into previous to the passing of these regulations from actually, for a given period, placing liis stock on his own run, it shall be sufficient if he ■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 shal), at any time, upon a_written order from the Waste Lands Board to tliat 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 Ms license to be forfeited. 56. Every run or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as above provided, shall be put up by the Wasttf Lands Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapere of the 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. Eveiy person taking out a license fbr a run which is not stocked will be required to deposit witli the Trea-sui-er the sum of ten shillings for every hundred acres included in the license, which will be returned without interest as soon as he shall 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 exceeding2os. for every 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 han 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, over a block of land compris-r ing 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 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 iudgr; ment of the Waste Lands Board be deemed sufficient 1 for the purposes of this clause, together with fifty 1 acres comprising and circumjacent to the* lands to oc- v I eupied or improved/ ■'-■■•--;,-- ■-' /. \