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Southland Times, Issue 930, 8 April 1868, Page 3

OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONS. Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 28th January, 1868. AT the request of the Southland Waste Lands Board, the following Regulations are published for general information. 1 E. W. STAFFOED; i Timbee Regulations, Southland. — Passed by the Waste Lands Board on 10th December, 1867, in accordance with Clause XVI. of " The Southland Waste Lands Amendment Act, 1867;" Hand-sawyees, Wood-cuttees, etc, Applications for Timber Licenses may be made at the Land Office, Invercargill, or at the Police Station nearest to the reserve on which the applicant intends to cut. On application at the Land Office, the applicant shall pay the fee to the Receiver of Land Revenue,, and on its payment the Chief Commissioner shall immediately issue a license to cut in the reserve indicated by applicant. The ranger or constable in charge of the station, on payment of the fee, shall give an acknowledgement for the same on a printed form to be provided by the board, which shall authorise the applicant to commence cutting at once. The fee thus paid shall be forwarded by the ranger or constable to the Receiver of Land Revenue as soon as possible, and ori its receipt the Chief Commissioner shall furnish the ranger with a license to be by him issued to the applicant. The permission granted in such license shall be confined to the bush stated by the applicant and shall . extend only to lands of the Crown, which have been already or may hereafter be appropriated for Timber Reserves in accordance with the provisions of " The Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865," and any licensed person cuttirig timber beyond the limit of his license will be considered as unlicensed and prosecuted accordingly. A fee of ten shillings per month shall be charged for each person, whether cutting, sawing, or splitting. A fee of five pounds shall be charged for a license for twelve months. An annual fee of two pounds ten shillings shall be paid by settlers cutting timber by bond fide servants in their euployment for the improvement of land j in their own occupation or firewood for domestic use but not for sale. Every holder of a license to cut timber j must exhibit such license to the ranger or officer appointed in that behalf when- 1 ever he may be called on to do so ; and on his refusal will be considered as unlicensed and prosecuted accordingly. The Chief Commissioner shall cause tb be seized all cut timber lying on Crown Lands, which he may have cause to believe has been cut by an unlicensed person ; but in case a right to such timber shall be asserted within fourteen days after the notice hereatter mentioned, and shall be established to the satisfactiopi of the Chief Commissioner, or officer seizing the same, it shall be restored to the claimant. .All timber when seized shall be marked with the broad arrow and after due notice of the seizure thereof in writing, to be. posted up inthe Land Office or at the Police Station in the district where such seizure was made, shall in case no claimant shall appear and establish his claim within fourteen days therefrom, be sold in such manner, and subject to such conditions as the Waste Land Board may direct. All timber cut under a yearly license must be removed within three months after the expiration of the license ; and under a monthly license within one month, otherwise it may be declared forfeited, seized, and sold on behalf of the Crown. The proceeds of the sale of timber so seized are to be accounted for and paid over to the Receiver of Land Revenue. If any person duly licensed shall have established a sawpit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other person shall cut timber within orie huridred yards of such pit without consent of the person first occupying such sawpit : Pi o vided 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 twenty-eight 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; or if such person should only cut timber to such extent within; the .twenty eight days as would appear tp the Board to be done merely for the purpose of excluding others and not utilising the forest, the Board may in such case cancel the license. If any license holder shall, for the purpose of removing timber, have made a tramway or road upon land being Waste Land ofthe Crown and not beinga highway, it shall not be lawful for any other person to use the same without permission of the person making the same first obtained : Provided that if such road shall not be used at any time for ninety consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any holder of a license at any time thereafter to use the same: TPro vided also,* that as regards tramways, the Board reserves to itself the power of deciding on the. merits of each case as it arises. Sawmills. . > vi Exclusive right to cut timber on Waste Lands of the Crpwri shall be j granted to sawmills on the following conf xlitions :■; . ; V , „ ; , ; , ; Every application for such exclusive rights shall be made ia writingj and be accompanied with a sketch and description as near as may be ofthe land rer quired.- _ , '• - No application for bush land exceeding j three hundred acres shall be granted for