The Tuapeka Times. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1871. "Measures, not Men."

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 183, 10 August 1871, Page 4

The Tuapeka Times. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1871. " Measures, not Men."

The next, and last, division of the Land Bill, of which we this week , give a summary, is that titled " Management of Crown Lands within Hundreds and Blocks." Clause 48 provides that a depasturing license shall be granted to every owner or occupier of land in a a hundred or block, on his furnishing the Board with a return of the number of acres owned and occupied by him, and the number, description, and brands of all cattle depastured or intended to be depastured or intended to be depastured by him on said hundred or block. 49. Each license-holder shall be at liberty to depasture, free of assessment, one head of great cattle for every 10 acres of unenclosed land owned or occupied by him. 50. No diseased cattle, nor any pigs or goit:s, will be allowed at lar^e within any hundred. 53. Owners or occupiers of land in any hundred to elect wardens from amongs*" themselves. Every occupier shall have one vote, .but if he occupies 200 acres he shall have two votes, and an additional vote for every hundred additional acres, and no person shall be entitled to more than ten votes. 57. The duties of the wardens shall be to make regulations, and to compute the number of cattle capable of being depastured on the waste lands within the huudred, and to apportion the number of cattle which owner or occupier shall be entitled to depasture. 62. The yearly assessment to be levie 1 is as follows: — For ev^ry head of XVd-At cattle, a sum of three shillings md sixpence; for every head of .small cattle, a sum of sevenpence — such payment.-, to form pait of the land levenue of the province, and to '.■c appropriated by ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Jouncil in the formation and repairs >f roads and bridges in the hunlreds in which such assessment ■shall have accrued. When twothirds of the land within the hundred shall have been sold or occupied, the assessment shall only be "me-ha'f of the sum before mentioned, and when three-fourths are -old or occupied, the assessment -h.ill ce.ise. 65. Arrears of assessment 111 1 be recovered by distress md sale. 72. The Boird m.iy ippoint one or more rangers for saeh hundred, whose duty slwll be ■ l o sse that the provisions of the \ct are carried into effect. 74 Unauthorised persons depasturing 3attle on the hundred arc liable to i penalty. 75 cattle trespassing on the hundred m \y be impounded, md dealt with according to law, as if they htd been found trespassing on fenced lands. 76. Where no wardens are elected, the Board may tct, and mike regulations. 78 The provisions and regulations contained in the preceding sections '•elating to hundreds, shall apply to the management of blocks of land set apart ; and every holder of a miners' right having a claim within i hundred or block, and every holder of a business license occupying land by virtue of such license, shall be entitled to run two he id of great cattle free of charge, and shall be entitled to a depasturing license in that behalf. We have now given t short summary of every clause of this new Land Bill, which we thought necessary; and we can onty express a hope that it will pass through the Assembly without being mutilated and robbed of the few concessions it makes towards the settlement of the province.