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

one farthing per acre for the first and second years, one half-penny per acre for the third and fourth years, three-farthings per acre for the fifth and every subsequent year; provided that the first year shall be taken to be the time elapsing from the date of the original license to the first day of May next following. 50. No pastiu-age license shall be granted for a less annual fee than £2 10s. 51. The, fee shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Land Board every year, in advance; for the first year on the issue of the license, and for the second and every subsequent year on any sitting day of the Board, between the 20th day of April and the first day of May, inclusive; and every nasturage license, not renewed by payment of the required fee, on or before the first day of May, shall, unless good cause to the contrary be shown to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board, be considered as abandoned. 52. Every pasturage license shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer shall be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof being duly given to the Waste Lands Board, and not before. A pasturage license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the land specified therein upon the terms above stated. Such license shall be renewed by endorsement from year to year, until the land specified therein shall be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations; and the fee to be paid in respect of such license shall not be altered until the Ist May, 1870. Such license shall give no right to the soil or to the timber, and shall immediately determine over any land which may be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable right ofjway shall be allowed through all pasturage runs. >*'■' 53. If at any time during the first four years after the issue of the first license the quantity of stock for the run shall be less than that originally required, or during the next three years less than twice that amount, or during any subsequent period,less than three times that amount, the Waste Lands Board may declare the whole or a portion of such run to be forfeited; provided always that with regard to runs granted prior to the issue of these Regulations such first period of four years shall commence from the date on which these Regulations shall come into operation : provided that one or more runs held by the same individual or firm may for the purposes of this clause be considered as one run. 54. In any case in which a runholder can prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board that he is precluded by arrangements entered into previous to the passing of these regulations from actually, for a given period, placing his stock on his own run, it shall be sufficient if he prove to the satisfaction of the Board that he possesses within the Province the requisite amount of stock, and will undertake to place the same on the run at the expiration of such peoiod. 55. Every holder of a license shall, at any time, upon a written order from the Waste Lands Board to that effect, make a true and complete return of all the stock on his run - ; and if lie shall wilfully and knowingly make any false return, the Waste Lands Board shall immediately declare his license to be forfeited. 56. Every run or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as above provided, shall be put up by the Waste Lands Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the Province. A license granted after forfeiture shall be deemed to be an original license. Upon appeal from any person whose run has been forfeited, within 60 days from the date of such forfeiture, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve or suspend such forfeiture either wholly or in part. 57. Every person taking out a license for a run which is not stocked will be required to deposit with the Treasurer the sum of ten 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 within the prescribed period; but if such conditions be not fulfilled such deposits shall be forfeited. 58. The above rules in respect to stocking a run, and to the lodgment of deposit money with the Treasurer, shall not apply to runs containing less than 5000 acres. 59. Every'holder of a license may be required at any time to pay for the actual cost of the survey of his run at a rate not exceeding2os. for every thousand acres. 00. Every holder of a pasturage icense shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a pre-emptive right over portions of his run, as follows: —For a run of not less than 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, over a block of land comprising and circumjacent to his homestead to the extent ofo per cent of'the acreage of the run. For a run of 5,000 acres and upwards, over 250 acres of land comprising and circumjacent to his homestead or principal station. And for all runs, over all lands occupied by any buildings, enclosures, plantations, cultivations, or any such other improvements as shall in the judgment of the Waste Lands Board be deemed sufficient for the purposes of this clause, together with fifty acres comprising and circumjacent to the lands so occupied or improved. 61. The Licensee shall at the time of his application to the Board give a sufficient description of the lands over which he claims such pre-emptive right, to the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor. And the same shall be mai'ked off on the authenticated Maps in the Land Office. 62. The lands included in such pre-emptive right may be of such form as the applicant shall choose ; but any land purchased by him in the exercise of such right shall be subject to the regulations as to form and frontage herein contained. 63. The Waste Lands Board shall not receive nor entertain any application to purchase, from any person other than the runholder, the aforesaid block around the homestead or principal station which does not include the whole of such block. 04. The right of pre-emption hereby given shall be exorcised within one week for all lands within twenty miies of the Land Office, at Christchurch; and within one month for all lands at a greater distance therefrom; such time being reckoned from the date of service of a written notice from the Waste Lands Board, setting forth a copy of the application for any of the lands included in the pre-emptive right. Such notice may be served either personally on the runholder, or by leaving the same at his last-known place of abode within the Province, or at the principal homestead or station on the run. 65. The applicant for any rural land included in any pre-emptive right shall deposit with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a sum equal to 4s. per acre of the purchase money, and the remainder lie shall pay within one week from the date of his application being granted, or forfeit such deposit. Such deposit, however, shall be immediately returned on demand, if the holder of the pre-emptive right shall give notice of his intention to purchase any portion of the laud applied for, and pay the requisite deposit. GO. If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the land applied for, he shall forthwith pay to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a deposit of 4s. per acre of the purchase money of such portion; and, if he shall not within six weeks thereafter have paid the remainder of the purchase money, he shall forfeit such deposit, together with all right or title to the land. If the holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause 00 of the Waste Lands Regulations shall neglect or refuse to purchase any portion of the land applied for, such portion shall from and immediately after such neglect or refusal be released from all right of pre-emption and open to purchase on the terms of these Regulations, as if the same had not been included in any pre-emptive right. 07. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive right, in connection with purchased lands, whether under the Canterbury Association or.'the' Grown, shall, from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to be pasturage licenses over the lands included therein, upon the terms of these Regulations, with a preemptive right over all such land, to be exercised subject to these Regulations as regards notice of application, payment of deposit, purchase money, price of land, and size and shape of blocks. If the land covered by such pre-emptive right shall be included within the limits of a run held by license under clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof in paying rent for the same may take credit for the amount paid by him in respect of lands covered by such pre-emp-tive right. 08. Holders of pasturage licenses without preemptive right shall be entitled to hold such licenses or to have them renewed upon the terms of their contract with the Canterbury Association or the Crown, as the .case may be ; but if any person holding a license under the Canterbury Association or the Crown shall voluntarily resign the same, he shall be entitled to receive a license under these Regulations, and shall from the date of such exchange hold his run at the rate and on the conditions specified in these Regulations. 69. If any person exchanging his license shall for any period included in the new license have paid rent at a higher rate than would be payable under such license, such overpayment shall be adjusted at the next payment of rent. 70. In the event of improvements having been effected by the licensee of a run on any land which shall he reserved by the General Government or by the Provincial Government under these Regulations, the licenseee shall receive payment of the value of such improvements, such value to be decided by arbitration under direction of the Waste Lands Board, and to be paid by the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board out of the land fund. 71. All payments 'on account of pasturage runs shall in future be made on or before the first day of May, in accordance with clause 51, at the Land Office, at Christcliurch, and the Waste Lands Board shall sit at that place for the Treasurer to receive the same. 72 All payments to be made on account ot pasturage runs before the first day of May next ensuing shall be made for the portion of the year only which shall elapse between such day of payment and the said first day of May. 73. In calculating the amount of the license fee and the stock required to be on the run, the year commencing on the said first day of May shall be deemed to be the same year as that for which such part payment shall have been made. 74. Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon the recommendationtof the Superintendent ancl^Pro