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

vincial Counil, at any time, and from time to time, by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province, to reserve for the purposes hereinafter mentioned any lands within the Province, adjacent to or in the neighbourhood of any town, now or which may hereafter be formed, and to declare that on and from a day to be named in such proclamation all depasturing licenses issued under these regulations, in respect of such reserved lands, shall cease and be of no effect; on and from which day, all such licenses shall, as respects such lands, cease and be of no effect accordingly. And it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time, hereafter, by regulations to be issued in that behalf, according to the provisions of the Waste Lands Act, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, to regulate the occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within such reserved districts. TIMBER. 75. 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 and subject to conditions 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. 76. No person shall, without a license, cut or remove any timber from any Waste Lands of the Crown (except timber which hfi shall have purchased under the l:wt clause); ami any persons 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. 77. 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 of 10s. shall be paid upon every montlily license, and of £fl upon every yearly license. 78. 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, during the term of the license, to saw, split, or remove the timber so cut; and such license shall not be transferable. 79. A license to cut timber shall extend only to the district named therein. 80. If any person duly licensed shall have established a saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other person shall cut timber within 50 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 28 consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any other holder of a license to enter thereupon, and to cut timber as though such pit had not been established. 81. 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 lawful 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 90 consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any holder of a license at any time thereafter to use the same. 82. If any person holding a timber license shall be proved before the Waste Lands Board to have offended against any regulations herein contained respecting timber, or to have wilfully or negligently injured or destroyed by fire or otherwise any timber belonging to the Crown, such license shall be, and shall be immediately declared to be forfeited, and it shall be at the discretion of the Board to refuse to issue another timber license to the same person. SCHEDULES. Schedule A. Province ) of \ Canterbury. ) LICENSE TO OCCUPY TOWN LANDS. Whereas of hath been duly declared the purchaser for the sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, of the section of the Waste Lands of the Crown hereinafter described, and hath this day paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Canterbury, the said sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, NOW KNOW ALL MEN AND THESE presents witness, that We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the said Waste Lands Board, do hereby authorise and empower the said his heirs or assigns, at any time after the date hereof, to enter upon all that section of land situated in street, in the town of marked, No. in the authenticated map of the said town in the Crown Lands Office and containing acres, or thereabouts, being the section of land so purchased as aforesaid, and to hold and enjoy the same for his and their absolute use and benefit. Given under our hands at the sitting of the Waste Lauds Board held at on the day ot 18 Schedule B. Province ) of \ Canterbttry. ) LICENSE TO OCCUPY RURAL LAND. Whereas of hath been duly declared the purchaser for the sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, of the section of the Waste Lands of the Crown hereinafter described, and hath this day paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Canterbury, the said sum of pounds, shillings, and pence, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, NOW KNOW ALL MEN AND THESE presents witness, that We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the said Waste Lands Board, do hereby authorise and empower • the said his heirs or assigns, at any time after the date hereof, to enter upon all that section of land situate and bounded as hereinafter described, that is to say ; and to hold and to enjoy the same for his and their absolute use and benefit, subject nevertheless to the Regulations now in force for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Canterbury. Given under our hands at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at on the day of 18 Schedule C. Province ) of \ Canterbury. ) LICENSE TO DEPASTURE STOCK. Whereas of hath been duly declared to be entitled to a license to depasture stock upon the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Canterbury, upon the terms and upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned: Now therefore We, in pursuance of the powers vested in us as Commissioners of the Waste Lands Board to the said Province, do hereby grant to the said the exclusive license, from and after the date hereof, until the first day of May next, to depasture stock upon the land situate and bounded as hereinafter described, that is to say— and containing acres or thereabouts. Subject nevertheless to all the provisions and conditions contained in the Waste. Lands Regulations now in force within the Province of Canterbury. Given under our hands at the sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at on the day of 18 Endorsement. I, the witliin-named for valuable consideration to me paid by of do hereby transfer to the said the within written Pasturage License, and all my estate and interest therein. Witness my hand this day ot 18 Witness APPENDIX I. Clauses 35 and 43, which were repealed by the Waste Lands Regulations Amendment Ordinance, Sess. VII., No. 2, 1856, originally stood as follows :— ' 35. 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 by auction at the upset price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of sale and payment of purchase money to be as nearly as may be in accordance with the regulations herein contained, applicable to the sale of Town Land. 43. If any person shall at any time have made and completed at his own cost any public road or bridge or any public main drain, or any part of such road, bridge, or drain, such per*n shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a free grant of rural land in such situation as lie shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage in these regulations contained, to such an extent as the Board shall adjudge, not exceeding one acre for every four pounds sterling which he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board that he shall have actually expended in the construction of such road, bridge, or drain. ProvW:^ always that it'shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Board that the money so expended by the applicant has been_ beneficially expended for