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Otago Daily Times, Issue 56, 20 January 1862, Page 2 (Supplement)

the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the purchase shall forfeit liis deposit money, and also all right or title to the land; and the section may be sold to any person applying for the same for the price at which it was knocked down at the auction; and, if not so sold, the section may be again put up to auction at any future sale. 33. Upon payment of the purchase money in full, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth in Schedule A to the Waste Lands Regulations, and such License shall be restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased. VII. —RURAL LAND. 34. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be open for sale as rural land, at an uniform price of forty shillings per acre. 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section of Rural Land shall be sold, containing less than twenty acres; but any section so limited by frontage lines or private lands as to contain less than twenty acres may he sold by auction at the upset price of forty shilling's per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of sale, and payment of purchase money to be as nearly as may he in accordance with the regulations herein contained applicable to the sale of Town Land. Provided, nevertheless, that, if any section so limited shall he included in a Pasturage License with Preemptive Right, the holder of such License shall be entitled to exorcise such Pre-emptive Right under these Regulations upon payment of the sum of forty pounds for such section. 36. Every section of rural land shall be in one block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage line, shall be of a depth of half a mile (or 40 chains) from such frontage. Note. —A frontage line shall be taken to mean the boundary of a road, river, or public reserve, or any stream or watercourse which shall have been declared by notification in the Government Gazette to constitute a frontage for the purpose of selection. 37. Where, from the frontage not being a straight line or from the interference of other frontage lines, natural features, or the boundaries of private lands, the above rules in respect of 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 Board, circumstances will admit. 38. In sections of lands not adjacent to or hounded by a frontage line, all the sides may be equal, but one side may not be less than one-third of the other; and such section shall not be less than half a mile distant from a frontage line. , 39. Any person possessing' a section of laud 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 under the foregoing rules. 40. Immediately on the payment of the purchase money, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth in the Schedule B hereunto annexed; and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall he laid pft"by a Government Surveyor, as nearly in accord; ice with the description given by the purchaser in his application as these regulations will admit; provided that whenever the lands selected lie without the surveyed districts, the expense of the survey and of connecting such survey with the existing surveys shall be borne by the purchaser, who shall at the time of purchase deposit the amount of the estimated cost of such surveys with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board, which shall he made as soon as practicable, by order of the Chief Surveyor. Provided always, that should any 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, nor will the purchase money be returned. Provided also, 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 Treasurer 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 Commissioners, in accordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the Crown Grant shall be made out in accordance therewith; and the "License" shall be returned to the Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall be issued. 41. Any person making a ditch and bank fence to lands adjoining W^te Lands of the Crown may take out of such lands half the land required for the ditch and bank : provided that no ditch or bank shall be more than six feet in width. VIII.—COMPENSATION LANDS. 42. Whereas it is desirable that private persons should be enabled to receive portions of Waste Land in exchange for private lands taken for roads or for other public purposes; if any person shall be entitled to receive any compensation in respect of any land which shall have been taken for the purposes of a road or of any other public work, or in respect of any damaees done to his property by the taking of such land for such purposes, such person shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a grant of rural land in such situation as he shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage in these regulations contained, to the extent of one acre for every two pounds sterling- of the amount of compensation which the applicant shall he entitled to receive in respect of the land taken for such purposes or'in respect of such damage as aforesaid. 43. If any person shall contract with the Superintendent to make and complete, within a given time, any public road, bridge, or drain, or any part of any such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing such security as the Superintendent may require for the due completion of such contract, and shall select such portion of rural land as he shall he willing to accept by way of payment or compensation, or by way of part payment or compensation for such work; it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve such portion of land from public sale for such given time but no longer; and such person shall, on the completion of such contract, be entitled to a free grant of such land, or so much thereof as the Board shall adjudge, not exceeding one acre for every two pounds sterling which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Board to be the bond fide value of the work so done by such person according to the prices for work and materials at the time of performing such contract current in the district. Every such reservation of land from public sale shall he published in the' Government Gazette of the Province, as directed in clause 19 of these Regulations. No such reservation shall continue in force for a longer period than twelve calendar montlis from the date on which it shall have been made. No land included in a Pasturage License with Preemptive Right shall, as against the holder of such Pre-emptive Right, be so reserved or granted until he shall have been allowed the option of purchasing such land in the manner prescribed in clauses 64 and 66 to these Regulations. No greater amount of land than 250 acres shall under the provisions of this clause be reserved or granted to any person under any such contract, unless in payment of work for which a vote has been passed by the Provincial Council. No greater amount of land than 1000 acres in the aggregate shall, in any one year, be reserved or granted under the provisions of this clause, without the special sanction of the Provincial Council. Provided always that every parcel of land so granted shall be subjected to the same conditions as to form and frontage as any rural land sold under these Regulations ; provided also that no application for less than 20 acres shall be received under this clause, but that where any amount of compensation awarded by the Board shall be of less extent than 20 acres of land, the person entitled may pay the balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants for the purchase of rural lands under these Regulations. IX. —NAVAL AND MILITARY BOUNTIES. 44. Whereas the Superintendent and the Provincial Council and other the inhabitants of Canterbury are desirous to aid in making provision for the maintenance of such persons of Her Majesty's land and sea forces as may be discharged as unfit for further service in consequence of wounds or loss of health incurred in the present war with Russia, and also for the maintenance of the widows of those who may be killed in such war:— Any such person or widow shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence from the proper authorities as to such discharge or death, bo entitled to receive a free grant not exceeding 30 acres of the Waste Lands within this Province, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage contained in these Regulations; provided always that such application shall be made to the Waste Lands Board by such person or widow in person witliin three years after such discharge or death. X. —PASTURAGE. 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public purposes as herein provided, the Waste Lands may be occupied for pasturage purposes by persons holding licenses from the Waste Lands Board to occupy the same. 46. Any person applying for a pasturage license shall state to the Commissioners what are the boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and the number and description of the stock which he possesses, or will undertake to place upon the run within twelve months from the date of the license. 47. The extent of run allowed to each applicant shall be at the rate of 120 acres to every head of great cattle, and 20 acres to every head of small cattle. The words " great cattle" shall be construed to mean homed cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male and female, with their offspring above six months of age; and the words "small cattle" shall he construed to mean sheep, male and female, with then1 weaned offspring. 48. Every pasturage run shall be in one block, and, as far as circumstances will admit, of a rectangular form: the frontage, under ordinary circumstances, shall not be greater than one-half the depth. 49. The fee to be paid for the license shall be at the following rates: —For every run containing less than 1000 acres, twenty shillings for every hundred acres; for every run containing 1000 acres, and not less than 5000 aci ss, two-pence per acre for the first thousand, and one penny per acre for every acre in addition. For every run containing 5000 acres or upwards, '