AGRICULTURAL LEASES ON GOLDFIELDS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 70, 30 December 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

AGRICULTURAL LEASES ON GOLDFIELDS.

We reproduce the following from the Government Gazette, for the benefit of those desirous of applying for leases in this district:— PROCLAMATION. Clauses revised and Conditions to be contained in Agricultural Leases under " Goldfields Act, 1862." Ist. Agricultural Leases will be granted for a term not exceeding seven years. 2nd. Agricultural Leases will not be transferable without the special sanction and authority of His Honor the Superintendent, and for every such transfer a fee or fine of one pound (£\) will be charged. 3rd. The Government reserves to itself the right to survey through any land held under an Agricultural Lease, such roads as may be deemed essential for public convenience, and to throw them open to public traffic, subject to the allowance of valuation for improvements, and for any standing and growing crops which may be in or upon such line of road, at the period when possession thereof is taken by the Government. 4th, The rent charged shall be at the rate of five shillings (55.) per acre, payable yearly in advance from the date of application; and any fractional part of an acre will be considered as an acre and charged accordingly. sth. The Government reserves to itself the right of entering upon any land so leased as aforesaid, for the purpose of searching for gold, or any other metal or mineral, and of determining any lease when such metals or minerals shall have been discovered thereon. 6th. In the event of the determination of any agricultural lease on account of the highly auriferous nature of the land thereby demised, the amount of compensation adjudged to be paid to the holder thereof shall (except in special cases) be contributed by the persons desirous of mining thereon. 7th. The fees charged for survey will be as follows:

For an ordinary survey, when the area does not exceed four (4) acres, one pound; For any larger area at the rate of five shillings per acre, or any portion of an acre. And thirty shillings per diem extra when the time occupied in such survey extends beyond one day. Bth. Leases will be cancelled if the land is sublet or transferred without the sanction and authority of His Honor the Superintendent; or if cultivation is not commenOeji within three months after the issue of the lease; or if at any time during the currency of the lease the land shall be neglected for a period of six months. NOTICE. His Honor the Superintendent, acting under the powers in that behalf vested in him by delegation from His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, will, on and after the date hereof, receive applications from persons desirous of leasing land for agricultural purposes, within those parts and portions of the Wakatip Goldfield as hereinafter described, that is to say— WAKATIP GOLDFIELD. All that Block or Section of Land, being Run No. 356, lately occupied by Messrs. Grant and Gammie, and containing about one hundred thousand acres by estimation, and situated within the several mining districts of the Wakatip Goldfield. Persons applying for Agricultural Leases mus strictly observe the following Regulations:— Ist. Leases will be granted for a term not exceeding seven (7) years, in accordance with the provisions of the u Goldfields Act, 1862." 2nd. Every application for an Agricultural Lease must be made (in the form of the Schedule hereunto annexed, or to the like effect) to the Warden of the District wherein the land is situate, and must be accompanied by a deposit of five pounds (£5), to cover the costs of survey. The balance, if any, of such deposit will be returned after the application has been finally dealt with.

3rd. The boundaries of the area applied for must be marked out on the ground by trenches and substantial posts at each cforner thereof. 4th. Every such area must be rectangular in form, unless a creek or river, or other natural obstacle renders a deviation from the rectangular form necessary. sth. As soon as possible after the receipt of any application and deposit as aforesaid, the Warden will instruct a Surveyor to proceed to the ground, for the purpose of examining, surveying, and reporting upon the same. 6th. Agricultural Leases will not be granted for lands within the boundaries of proclaimed townships or public reserves, nor for any area including a permanent water-course, or which may present auriferous indications upon survey ; and in all cases a public roadway, one chain in width, will be reserved along the margins of streams and rivers.

Schedule referred to. No. (Place and Date.) To the Wcrden at I hereby apply for a lease of land for agricultural purposes, situate at (here state the locality) and comprising acres, or thereabouts; and I deposit herewith the sum of five pounds to cover the costs of survey, and I agree to pay the further costs (if any) of such survey, acccording to the scale prescribed by the Agricultural Lease* Regulations. Signature (name in full, and address).