REGULATIONS UNDER THE HOMESTEAD ACT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 311, 29 September 1875, Page 2

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HOMESTEAD ACT.

In Provincial Government Gaxeiti pjublished . lq.tely, Appears a series of new regulations whichhave: b«qn framed by the. Supeyjntendeut under Sectioii 51 'bf The Auckland Waste Lands Act r _1874, relating to the decupation >Lp.nds of the Crown under the Homestead clauses of- that'Acti :Cultivation, is described asiaplanting any' cereal oriroot erop4 i pl'anttng*an orehard', vineyard; nursery, jflatitiifg forest trees, dr laying down lands with artificial grasWJ The - dweriihg house; tb be erected shall be at least of tHe, value qf £3p. - By persons of 18 years of ' UpwnSdis, - 3G' ! iiires of firsti tjlass land-nuijMbe 'sfelectefb, and 75 acres of an inferior quality, and to those- members of a family under 18, years. nf age,' 20iacres of first quality' Of land Will" be allowed, and 30 acres 6f /sfecbfld-claqb''' land; Under the Hbtnesteqd system, no application for legs than 20 acres will be received, and no graut.-will be made to one family living irr one house of more than 200 acres first class land, or 300 acres of second quality land. The day and hour when,the application is made are to be entered Tn a book, and if two or more ap^ly. for the same section of Jand, the allotment will be made to ihe one. who makes the earliest application ; but : when two or more applications are made simultaneously,.rtbe decision shall be by drawingjots., The telectibn made tn list "6e surtieyfed'dt the selector’s Cxpetise wit-hiii Sit months bf making the selection, and at the close bf dadh year, -after taking'' occu-i pation,anacediintiff must bu forwarded to the Land Court, stating what improvements have been done during the previous year, and a penalty of £2O will be incurred in the event of a false return being sent in.. No forest trees will be allowed to be cut down until .tlje final completion of the. conditions under which the selection

lias been made, except such as may be required for domestic purposes upon the seleiftiou/lgr the necessary improvemdSts that may be required to I' be done, residence outlie 1 and Jgsnve years, the erection of a permanent dwelling-house within twelve months from the commencement of such residence, the annual cultivation of one-fifteenth area of open land,f orpine bush fimd together witir*"the fulfilment Orttht conditions imposed by the Act, and the'regulntJons whrcu- have been zfrupied, are required before a Crown grant shall be issued to the selector. ' th# qawwiy af land required vation, being trought Into cultivation sooter tfiatrfiy/efliepp's, a yi'ownjgnaufi shall! issue when such has been done, apd the Mothers necasKvy conditiionft, complied with. The. Lees chargeable by tfee; rsp, 12s 6d. per mile ; open.grass land, £2 ibd r ppc. ufile,* £3 . 5# per mile ’; scrub, i £s,H^Milaj ll and,,f.9,r l esk lanid;i£6 lO.permile. Afield book and finished plan- of the survey have to be furnished to toe'. Selector I without extra charge,. The regulations,’ gjigw made ifrSYiiiftitHial nioM®eral thain those previously in forde. The regulations, of whiah-ibe tabove was a summary, are to come into-operation Un an'U after the -day upoi which liny groclamation jnay, appear, declaring toat such and' such 0101-Jts br first or »4Ccond class land stre-opeii for selecjionr Apptieation in'alt cases has tu te'iiutdedn writing. u