Rural Land.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 222, 16 December 1854, Page 10 (Supplement)

Rural Land.

17. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be open for sale as rural land at a uniform fixed price of ten shillings per acre. 18. "No section of rural land shall be sold containing less than twenty acres; provided that any section so limited by frontage lines or private lands as to contain less than twenty acres, may be sold for the fixed sum of five pounds sterling. 19. .Every section of rural land shall be in one block and of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage line the frontage shall not be greater than one-third nor less than one-fifth of the side at right angles thereto.' Note. —A f frontage' line shall be taken to mean the boundary of a road, of any reserve ; of the sea, of any lake, lagoon, or river, and of any water course or stream which shall be declared by notification in the Government Gazette to constitute a frontage for the purpose of selection. 20. Where from the frontage not being a straight line or from the interference of other frontage lines, or the boundaries of private lands, the above rules in respect oi form cannot be accurately observed; the form of the section shall be determined as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the judgment of the Commissioner, circumstances will admit. 21. In sections of land 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 of the other. 22. 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 lander the foregoing rules. 23. Immediately on the payment of the purchase money, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioner' a " License to occupy," in the form set forth in the Schedule B hereto annexed ; and as soon thereafter as conveniently may- be, the land shall be laid off by a Government Sur-; veyor as nearly in accordance with the description given by the purchaser in his application as these regulations will admit; but should the 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, noi will the purchase money be returned. Provided that if the Surveyor shall find that the whole extent of land in. the selected locality falls short of the quantity paid for by the purchaser, the Commissioner shall repay so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The "License to occupy" shall, in any such case, be amended by the Commissioner, in accordance with the report of the surveyor, and the conveyance shall be made out in accordance therewith: and the " License" shall be returned to the Commissioner when the Crown grant shall be issued. Every such "License" shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth in the schedule. Pastueage. 24. Until sold, as above provided, the waste lands may be occupied for pasturage purposes by persons holding licenses to occupy the same. 25. Any person applying for a pasturagej license shall state to the Commissioner what! are the boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and the number, description,

and age of the stock which he possesses, or will undertake to possess, within the Province, ready to be placed upon the run within twelve months from the date of the License. ,26. The extent of run allowed to each applicant shall be at the rate of 20 acres toj every breeding ewe, and 5 acres to every ram or wether, 120 acres to every mare or cow, and 30 acres to every horse, gelding, bull, or steer. To be reckoned in the above calculation all sheep must be above the age, of nine months, and all horned cattle and. horses above the age of one year. 27. The sum to be paid for the license every year shall be as follows : For a run containing not more than 1000 iacres, one penny per acre. I i For a run containing above 1000J acres, one penny per acre for the first 1000 acres, and one halfpenny for every acre in (addition. 28. If any run shall contain 5000 acres or upwards, only one-fifth part of the license fee will be requred to be paid for the first year, two-fifths for the second, three-fifths ifor the third, four-fifths for the fourth, and the full amount for the fifth and every subsequent year. Provided that the first year shall be taken to be the time elapsing from ithe date of the License to the first day of 'April next following. 29. The fee shall be paid every year in advance, for the first year on the issue of the license, and for the second and every subsequent year on the first day of April. 30. Every pasturage license snail be in the form set forth in the schedule C. hereto annexed, and shall be transfeiable by endorsement in the form set forth in the schedule ; and shall entitle the holder to the exclusive right of pasturage over the land specified therein, upon the terms above stated, from the date of the license to the year 1870 inclusive. Provided always that the right conferred by such license shall immediately determine over any land which may be purchased or reserved under these regulations. 31. If at any time during the first five years after the date of the license the quantity of stock for the run shall be less than that originally required, or during the next five years less than twice that amount, or during the next five years less than three times that amount; or if the rent shall not be paid on the day required ; in any such case, the license issued shall be wholly null and void, and the run may be put up to public auction ; and the highest bidder at such auction shall be the person entitled to the license. 32. Every person taking out a license for a run, which is not stocked, will be required to deposit with the Government the sum often 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. 33. The above rules in respect to stocking a run, and to the lodgement of deposit money with the Government shall not apply to runs containing not more than 1,000 acres. 34. All the above rules in respect to the form of sections of Rural Land shall so far as circumstances will admit, be applied to the form of runs occupied for pasturage purposes. ° 35. Every holder of a license may be required at anytime to pay for the survey of his run at the rate of 20s. for every thousand acres. 36. Every holder of a pasturage license shall have a pre-emptive right over the1

whole of the run over which such UcetT extends: provided that such rights shall be exercised within six days for all l an d north of the river Ashburton, and with! 8 12 days for lands south of that river after he shall have received notice from the Go vernor that any portion of his run has been applied for. Provided that no pre-emptive rights shall be held or exercised over any lands lying south of the River Ashley, and east of a line drawn due north and south through trigonometrical station, No. 29 on the banks of the River Waimakiuti,' or Courtenay. 37. Nothing in these regulations shall be interpreted to affect the legal rights or* equitable contracts made by the Canterbury Association or the Government with holders of pasturage licenses. But if any person holding such a license shall voluntarily resign the same to the Government: he shall be entitled to receive a license under these regulations bearing date as though it had been issued at the same time as the license resigned to the Government. Timber. 38. 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 to be fixed by the Superintendent, and the purchaser shall agree to remove the same within a certain time, and all the timber not removed within such time may be again put up to public auction. 39. No person shall, 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 person 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. 40. Every license for cutting or removing. timber shall be issued for one month, or for one year, at the request of the person applying for the same; and a fee oLlOs.shall be paid upon every monthly license, and of £5 upon every yearly license. 41. 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 to saw, split, or remove the timber so cut; and such license shall not be transferable: 42. A license to cut timber shall extend only to the district named therein. 43. If any person shall have established1 a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, it shall not be lawful to any other person to cut timber within 20 yards of such pit without consent of the person first occupying such saw-pit, provided 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 fourteen consecutive days, it shall be lawful |to any other holder of a license to enter jthereupon, and to cut timber as though such pit had not been established. 1 44. If any person shall for the purpose of removing timber, have made a road upon land being the Waste Lands of the Crown ,and not being a highway, it shall not be jlawful for any other person to use the same [without the permission of the person making the same first obtained, provided that if such road shall not be used at any time for thirty consecutive clays, it shall be lawful for any holder of a license at any time thereafter to use the same. Immigration. , 45. Every person who shall emigrate to the Province of Canterbury, from any part, of Her "Majesty's dominions, except from other parts of the Colony of New Zealand,

.hall be entitled to receive money scrip to he amount of half the sum which he shall have actually expended in cabin passages nd the whole sum which he shall have 'actually expended in intermediate and steerage passages, in the immigration of himself and [is family, and of any person whom he shall have brought out with him, at his own bond Bde cost and expence ; and who Bhall have ictually landed in the Province. Provided hathe shall not be entitled to receive scrip to he amount of more than eight pounds on aciount of the passage of any adult, from any of he Australian colonies, or to the amount of Q ore than twenty pounds, from any place t a greater distance : nor, on account of lie passage of any child between the ages f one and fourteen years, to more than alf the above amounts respectively.

46. All such scrip shall be transferable iy endorsement, and shall be received for he amount therein expressed, in payment [f any land to be sold under these regulajons. All such scrip not presented in paynent for land within 12 months from the late thereof shall be void.

47. All applications for scrip shall be nade'to the Commissioner during the sitting ■f his Court, within 3 months after the arrial in the Colony of the persons on acount of whose passage the scrip shall be lairaed. The Commissioner shall hear and eceive all such evidence as may enable him

o determine the amount oi* scrip to whichj he applicant may be justly entitled under liese regulations; and the Commissioner aving determined such amount, shall issue crip accordingly.

Tiie Commissioner's Court. 48. The Commissioner of Crown Lands hall hold an open Court at the principal <and Office of the Province at certain stated mes to be determined by the Superintend^ at and notified in the Government Gazette. 49. The Commissioner shall hold an open oust—for -special purposes at- such* other iaces, and at such times as the Superinndent shall direct, of which due notice mil be given in the Government Gazette. 50. All applications for Land and for asturage and for Timber Licenses shall be ade to the Commissioner during the. sitting

F the said Court; and the Commissioner mil take down in writing every application; nd the applicant shall sign the same. And lie Commissioner having heard all necessary ridence respecting every" such application ball decide thereon.

51. A. book to be called " the appiieaon Book" stall be kept open during office 3urs at the Land office, in which every. erson intending to make any application in ie Commissioner's Court, shall write his ime. And the Commissioner shall during c sitting of the Court, call every applint, and shall hear his application in the der in which his name shall appear in the 'plication book.; Provided that if any iison shall not appear before the Court lien called, his application shall be disissed until he shall have again entered his une in the said book, in 'order. And the Dmmissioner shall enter in the book the prds-" heard or " dismissed "as the case ay be, opposite the name, of every applitjT!? together with the date of heaving or smissing the application,' and shall sign

p initials thereto. [52 All payments to be made in respect [land shall be made to the Commissioner open Court; and the Commissioner shall fereupon give receipts for the same. 53. The Commissioner shall during the tting of the said Court, and at no other Ine whatever, hear and determine all disates between holders of Pasturage Licenses

respecting the boundaries of runs, and respecting all other matters and things which the Commissioner ii by law empowered to hear and to determine. 54. There shall be a Clerk to the said court, who shall '.keep faithful records of all applications made to the Court, and all decisions thereon, and of all sums of money paid to the Commissioner, and generally of all the proceedings of the Court; arid the Commissioner shall sign all such records of his proceedings. 55. A copy of all such records of proceedings shall, once in every month, be transmitted to the Superintendent, and shall' by him be laid before the Provincial Council as soon as conveniently may be after receiving the same. Genekax. 56. In the foregoing Regulations every Act which the Superintendent is authorized or required to perform, he shall perform solely in accordance with the advice of his Executive Council for the time being, and such advice shall be recorded on the minutes of the Council. 57. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be summoned to attend every meeting of the Executive Council at which any such Act shall be agreed to. And if the Commissioner shall dissent from the opinion of the Superintendent and his Executive Council, he shall be at liberty to enter a protest stating his reasons in writing against such decision, and such protest shall be entered on the minutes of the Executive Council, and shall be laid before the Provincial Council.