LANDS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY SETTLEMENT.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 391, 1 September 1849, Page 105

LANDS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY SETTLEMENT.

The Court of Directors of the New Zealand Company are prepared to allow, until further notice, the issue of Licenses for the pasturage of lands in New Zealand, at the disposal of the Company, and not included in any settlement, under such Regulations, subject to the {following conditions, as may be prescribed from time to time by the Company's Principal Agent in New Zealand, or other officer duly authorised in that behalf.

But with regard to lands in the immediate vicinity of the Otago block, such Regulations will become subject hereafter to the particular provisions contained in . the terms laid down separately for that settlement. . 1. Duration of Licenses.— Licenses for the pasturage of land at the disposal of the Company, and not included in any settlement, while such land continue* unappropriated and not required for any purpose other than pasturage;

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to be granted for periods not exceeding one year, to end on the 31st of December in each, year, but to be otherwise sooner determinate as hereinafter mentioned. 2. Licenses. — Licences for particular pas* turage-runs to be granted to the persons who may first make application for such runs respectively, in accordance with the - rules laid down in paragraph 3. In the event of two or more persons making application for the same run in accordance with the said rules, one of which persons is at the time the licensee of the said run. a preference to be given to such licensee, subject of course to the conditions which may be in force at the time. In all other cases, simultaneous applications to be decided by lot. 3. Applications for Licenses. — Applications for such Licenses to be made in writing ; to be delivered to such persons and at such time and places as may be respectively appointed by the Company's Principal Agent or other authorised officer ; and to contain the following particulars, or such others as the said Agent or other officer may deem necessary, viz. : — Name and residence of the applicant. Situation, boundaries, and estimated extent of of the pasturage- run applied for. Estimated quantity s>f live-stock which the said run is capable of sustaining. Number aud description of the live stock proposed to be depastured under the License. 4. Apportionment of Pasturage. — The extent of the pasturage run to be comprised in any License, the boundaries of the run therein specified, and the quantity of live stock which the said run is to be deemed capable of sustaining, to be decided by the Company's 'Principal Agent or other authorised officer ; and, in the event of difference between 6uch Agent or officer and the applicant, by two arbitrators, one appointed by each of the said parties, with power to elect an umpire. The boundaries of each pasturage-run, if not marked by streams or other natural boundaries, to be marked by the licensee, by lines of marked trees, by posts placed at intervals, or by some other method which will render them easily discernible. 5; Yearly Charges on Licenses. — Each License to be subject to a yearly charge (exclusive of the fee on its issue), payable as undermentioned, and calculated on the quantity of live-stock which the pasturage-run therein specified is deemed capable of sustaining, at the following rates, viz. : — For sheep, each . . . Id. For horned cattle or horses, each Bd. The said charge to be paid half-yearly in advance, under penalty of forfeiture and determination of the License, and to continue to be so paid whether the run be actually used by the licensee or not. A proportionate part to be returned, in the event of the License being either wholly or partially determined or abridged before the expiration of the half-year. 6. Fees on Licenses. — On the issue of each License, a fee to be paid of an amount to be fised by the Company's Principal Agent or other authorised officer, not exceedingjfoe pounds, in addition to the half-year's cLargc abovementioned. One-half only of such fee to be paid upon any License issued subsequently to the 31st of May for the portion of the year ending on the 3 1st of December following. 7. Reservation of Rights.— The License to be Bubject to determination or abridgment, and any portion of the pasturage-run to be liable to be taken at any time by the Company's Principal Agent or other authorised officer, for any purpose other than pasturage, after a notice of six months, without reference to the date or comencement of the License. No License to confer any right to the soil, or power of breaking-up the same, or of subletting the pasturage, without the consent of the Company's Principal Agent or other authorised officer ; or otherwise to abridge or suspend the rights and powers of the Company in and over the land to be depastured. 8. Improvements. — No allowance to be made to the holder of any License for any improvements which he may. think proper to effect. 9. Disputes among Individuals. — Disputes among applicants or licensees to be determined either by arbitration or by lot, if the parties concur in deßiring either of these modes of decision; and, in default of such concurrence by the Company's Principal Agent or other authorised officer. Such determination to be in every case conclusive and binding as against all parties interested. But if the Company's Agent or other officer decline to give any decision, the parties to be at liberty to have recourse to such remedy as they possess, at law or in equity. 10. Non-observance of Terms. — In the event of neglect, or non-observance, by any licensee, of these terms, or of the regulations to be prescribed by the Company's Principal Agent or other authorised officer as above mentioned, the license to be ipso facto determined and to become null and void as by lapse of time ; and the Company's Principal Agent or other authorised officer to be at liberty to resume forthwith the pasturage-run therein mentioned, and to dispose of the same as if no such license had ever been issued. 11. Non-surrender of Possession. — In the event of refusal or neglect to give up possession on the determination of any license by lapse of time or otherwise, the licensee to be liable, during the continuance of such refusal or neglect, for the payment of a sum equal to three- times the ■mount of the charge reserved in the said license, without prejudice to any other right or remedy which the. Company may possess. By £r4«" of the Court, Y. C. Habington, Secretary. New Zealand House, March 23, 1849.

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