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Otago Daily Times, Issue 76, 12 February 1862, Page 2 (Supplement)

one farthing p-;r acre for the -first and second year?,! one half-penny per acre for the third and font ti: years, \ three-farthings per acre for the fifth and every subsequent year : -provided that tbe first year shaU bs lake-,! to be the time c-iapii.-ig from tlie date of the original - license to the first <i;ty of May next following. 50. No nasi i;rage license shall bo granted'for a less animal fee than .-£-2 10s. 51. Tlie foe shall be paid io the Treasurer of tbe Waste Laud Board every yea:-, in advance; for tlie first year on tiie issue ofthe license, and for the second and every subsequent year on any sitting day of tlie Board, between the iiOth day'of April anil the first day of May, inclusive; and (.very pasturage 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 Beard, be considered as abandoned. 52. Ever',- pasturage licens.-; shall be in tha form set forth in the Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regulations, and sliall be transferable by eudoiseinen t in the form set forth in such Schedule, "and such transfer shall be deemed fo be complete upon notice thereof being duly given to tlio Waste Lands Board, atltl not before. A pasturage license sliall entitle the bolder thereof to the exclusive rijr'it of pasturage over tlie land specified therein upon the terms above stated. Such license shal: be renewed by omiov-ement from year to year, until the hmd specified therein shall be purchased,. e-r:iiite<l,frr reserved under these regulations; and the foe to be pai-i in respect of such license shall not be altered until the Ist May. IS7O. Such license shall give no right to the soil oi- to the timber, and shall immeilialeiy'defermiueover any land wliich may he purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable right of way shall be aliowo:! throug-h a!! pasturage runs. ss. If at auy time during-the first four years after the issue of the first; license" the quantity of stock for the run shall be losi than, that originally required, or duviiiiv the next, three years less than twice that amount, or (hiring- any subsequent period less than three times -that amoimlj the Waste Lauds Board may declare the whole or a portion of such run to be forfeited ; provided always that with regard io runs granted prior to the issue of those Regulations such first period of four years shall commence from the date on which these 'Regulations shall come into operation : provided that one ov more vims hold by the same individual or firm may for Ihe purposes of this clause bo considered as one run.. 54. In any case in which a rnr.holder can prove to the satisfaction of rite Waste Lauds Board that he is pre;:: ii (ltd by arrangements entered into previous to the passing- of these regulations from actually, for a-given period," placing his"stock ou his own run, it s'mP.l be sufficient if he prove to tho satisfaction ofthe Board flint ho possessed 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 bolder of a license sliall, at any time, Upon a written order from the Waste-Lauds Board to that effect, make a true aud 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. 50. Every run or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as above provide.'!, shall be put up by tlie Waste Lands Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the Government Gazette, and one o:----more newspapers of the Province. A license granted after forfeiture shall be deemed fo be an original license. Upon apnea! from any person whose mil lias been forfeited, within GO days*from the date of such forfeiture, it f.hnll be lawful fur the Superintendent to reserve or suspend such forfeiture eifiier wholly or in part. 57. Every person taking out a li'ensefbr a run which is not stocked will be required fo deposit with the Treasurer tlie sum often shillings for every hundred acres 'included in the license, which will be returned without interest as soon as hoshail have fimilled the conditions in respect, to slocking the run within- the prescribed period ; but if such conditions be not fulfilled such deposits shail be fot foiled. 58. Tiie above rules in rt-spect to stocking a run, and to the lodgment of deposit money with tlie Treasurer, shall not apply to runs containing less than 5000 acres. 50. livery holder of a license may be required at auy time to pay for the actual cost of the survey of his" run at a rate not exccedingSOs. for every thousand GO. Every holder of a pasturage 'icense sliall, upon appiicalion'to the Waste Lands" Board, be entitled^ to a pre-emptive right over por!ions of iiis run, as follows:—lor a viii: of not less than 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, oyer a block of land comprising and circumjacent io his homestead to the extent of" 5 tier cent ofthe acreage ofthe run. Por a run of 3,000 acres and upwards/ovor 250 acres of land comprising and cireitiiijaseiit to 'lis homestead or principal station. And for all runs, ever nil lauds occupied by any buildings, enclosures, plantations, cultivations, or any inch"other improvements as shall in the judgment'of the Waste Lands Board he deemed sufficient fur. the purposes of'this clause,, together with fifty iteros comprising and circumjacent to the laiiils so occupied or improved. (jl. The License-, shall at the time of his application fi) the Board give :i sinricieut description of the lands over which he claims such pre-emptive right, to the sutisfiVciion of the Chief Surveyor.' ■ And the same shall be marked ofi'o-.i the authenticated Maps in the Limd'Oft'tco. 02. The lands included in ■ such pre-emptive right may be of such form as the applicant, sliall choose ; but any laud purchased by him in the exereise.ofs.ueli right shall be subject to the reg-ulittions as to form and frontage heroin contained. 03. The Waste Lauds Board sliall not receive nor entertain any application to purchase, Irani auy person other than the rtnihoidor, the aforesaid block around tbe iicihesiead'or principal station whioh does not include the whole of such block. 6-1. The right of pi-e-oinplioii hereby given shall be exercised within one week for all lauds within twenty ■ miles of the Land Oiliee, at Chrislehiireii; and within one month for nil lauds af. a greater distance j ' therefrom; such time being reckoned from the dale of service of a written notice from the Waste Lumls i Hoard, .setting- forth a copy of the application for any | of the lands included-in the prc-o:nplivc right. Sueli j notice may be served oil her personally'oil the run-l holder,-or hy leaving lite same at his last-known j place of abode .within the Province, or at tlie principal j homestead or station on the run. I 05. Tlie applicant for any nival laud included in any pre-emptive right-shall deposit with the Treasurer of the Was!*: Lands Board a sum equal to 4s. per acre of the purciias-i money, and the remainder lie shall pay within one week irom the date of his application being- granted, or forfeit such deposit. Such deposit, however, shall be immediately returned on demand, if t be Jioider of the pre-emptive right shall give notice of his intention to purchase, any" portion of the laud applied for, and pay tits requisite deposit. 00. If tiie holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of tlie bind applied for, he .shall forthwith piiy to the Treasure]- of tlio Waste Lands Board n deposit of 4s. per acre ofthe purchase money of such portion ; and, if ho shall not witliin six weeks thereafter have paid the remainder ofthe purchase mouov, ho shall forfeit such- deposit, together with ail right or title to the land. If the holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause 00 ofthe Waste Lands Regulations shall neglect or refuse fo purchase any portion of the land applied for, sueh■ portion sliall I'rmu and immediately afrer such ne.gleet- or refusal be released from ail right of pre-emption and. open to purchase on ihe terms ofthose 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' iitider tlie Canterbury Association or tiie Crown, shall, from and after the first, day of April, "one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to be pasturage licenses oyer the lands included-therein, upon the terms of these Regulations, with a preemptive right over all such bind, to ho exercised subect io,,these Regulations as regards nutice of application, payment of deposit,, 'purchase' money, price of land, uiid size and shape of blocks. If tlie land covered by .such pre-emptive right shall be included' within the limits' of a 'run held by license under clauses' 50 and 03, the holder thereof in paying rent for the same may take credit for the amount paid by iiiiu in respect of'lands covered by such pre-emp-tive rip-lit. ...... tiS. Holders of pasturage licenses -without pre-emptive-right shall be entitled to hold such licenses or to have them renewed upon tlie terms of their contract with the' Canterbury Association or tiie Crown, as tiie ease may lie; but if any person holding a license under tiie Canterbury Association or ' tho Crown shall voluntarily resign- the same, lie shali be entitled to receive a license under these Regulations, and'-dial! from the date of such exchange bold his run at the rate and on the conditions specified in these Regulations. Of). If*any person exchanging his license shall for any period included in the new license have paid rent, at "a hiirher rate than would be payable under such license,'such overpayment shall be adjusted at tho next payment of rent. 70. f n the event of improvements having been effected by the licensee of a rim on any land which shall be reserved by tiie General Government or by the Provincial Government under these Regulations, the licenscce sliall receive payment of the value of such improvements, such value to be decided by arbitration under direction .ofthe Waste Lands Board, and to lie. paid by the Treasurer of tho Waste Lands' Board out of the land fund. 71. All payments on account .of. pasturage runs shall in future be made on or before tho first, day of May, in accordance with clause 51, at the Land Office, at Christchurch,. and the: Waste Lands Board shall sit at that place for the Treasurer to receive tiie same. 72 All payments to lie 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 sliall elapse between such day of payment and the said first day of May. 73. In calculating the amount ofthe 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.macle. " : 74. Notwithstanding- anything contained in- these ■ regulations, it'shall belawful for tlie Governor, upon j he recommendation of the Superintendent and Pro > .... .;-' ' ..' Ny ■'■ ■:'