REGULATIONS FOR THE DISPOSAL, SALE, LETTING AND OCCUPATION OF THE WASTE LANDS OF THE CROWN IN THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY:

Otago Daily Times, Issue 81, 18 February 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

REGULATIONS FOR THE DISPOSAL, SALE, LETTING AND OCCUPATION OF THE WASTE LANDS OF THE CROWN IN THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY:

AS A3[7»*DED. 1. A LL Regulations now in force in the ProXjl vincc of Canterbury for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lauds of the Crown are hereby repealed. 2 All such Waste Lands shall, from and after the day on which these Regulations shall eeine into torce, be sold, let, disposed of, and occupied according to these Regulations, and not otherwise. 3 Every Act which the Superintendent la hereby authorised or required to perform he shall perform solely in accordance with the advice of his Executive Council for the time being, and such advice shall be recorded on the minutes of the Council. II. —TUB WASTE LANDS BOAKD. 4. There shall be established a Board to be called the Waste Lands Board, to consist, of one Chief Commissioner, and of not less than two nor more than five other Commissioners, all of whom (except such one as shall be appointed to act as Treasurer) shall be appointed and be removable by wan-ant under the hand ef the Superintendent. 0. One member of the Waste Lands Board shall also be the Treasurer thereof, and such member shall be appointed and removable by the Governor. 6. The Waste Lands Board shall sit at the principal Land Office of the Province, at certain stated times to be determined by the Superintendent, and shall also sit for special purposes at such places and at such times as the Superintendent shall direct; of which sittings due notice shall be given in the Provincial Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers published in the Province. . 7. The Chief Commissioner when present, and m his absence then some member selected by those present' at any meeting of the Board, shall preside thereat, and shall have a casting vote in all questions coming before the Board. 8. All questions coming before the Board shall be decided by a majority of the Commissioners present 9? All meetings of the Board shall be attended by at least three Commissioners, and shall be open to the PUlo'. CAll applications for Land and for Pasturage and for Timber Licenses shall, after hearing evidence when necessary, be determined by the Board at some sitting thereof. 11. The Board shall have power to hear and determine all disputes between the holders of Pasturage and Timber Licenses respecting the boundaries of runs and districts, and shall have and exercise ail the powers which may be lawfully had and exercised by any Commissioner of Crown Lands, under the provisions of the "Crown Lands Ordinance, Sess; X., No. 1;" and the " Crown" Lands Extension Ordinance, Sess. XI., No. 10." ■ ■ 12. All the routine business of the Land Department shall be transacted by the Chief Commissioner, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Board in that behalf. ~ . -r. i „ 13. A book to be called the "Application Book' shall be kept open during office hours at the Land Office, in which the name of every -poison desiring to make any application to the Board shall be .written in order by himself or any person duly authorised on his behalf. And the Commissioners shall,-during the sitting of the Board, consider and determine all applications in the order in which they shall appear in the application book. Provided that if any person shal not appear himself or by some person duly authorised on his beha'f before the Board when called in his turn, his appi.-ation shall bo dismissed until his name shall appear again in the Book in order. Provided also that if two or more persons shall apply at the same time to write tht:'- names in the Application Book the Chief Commisy oner. shall bracket their names/and shall initial the bracket; and when they shall appear before the Board, the Board shall determine the priority of right to be hard by lot. And it shall not be lawful for'the Board to hear any application except such as shall be made iv accordance with this regulation. ~.,,. A 14. The Board shall keep true and detailed minutes of all applications made to the Board, and all decisions thereon, and of all sums of money paid to the Treasurer, and generally of all the proceedings of the Board; and such minutes shall be sigL^d by all. the Commissioners present at any meeting. And such minutes shall be open to the inspection of all persons j desiring to inspect the same, at all reasonable hours, on payment of the sum of two shillings.-nnd sixpence for every such inspection. 111. —SURVEYS. 15. There shall be a Chief Surveyor who shall be appointed and removable by Warrant under the hand of the Superintendent, and as many I "distant Surveyors us shall be necessary, who shall lie appointed and lemoveable by the Superintendent upon-the're-commendation of the Chief Surveyor. 16. All surveys shall be conducted in such manner as the Board by any regulations to be made in that, behalf shall direct. * IV. —THE LAND REVENUE. 17. All payments to he made in respect of land shall lift made to the Treasurer of the Board during the sitting- thereof, and the Treasurer shall thereupon give receipts for the same. IS.-nßy the 62nd clause of the Constitution Act the Governor is authorised and required to pay out o i the revenue arising from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown all the costs, charges, and expenses incident to the collection, management, and receipt thereof; and also to pay mit of the said revenues such sums as shall become "payable- under, certain other provisions therein contained. The Treasurer of tlie Wrote' Lands Board shall, therefore, pay out of nil the fuTiUi coming into his hands under these regulations all such sums for the above-named purposes, in . sudj^nauiitrr and to such per&ons 'as the Governor ,shall afreet. •"*'". "'■' ' V. —I'UBLTC RESERVES. * . i '-, 19. Reserves for the uses of the ProviiiciaVGovcrnKient aud for, other public purposes may, upon the xfcammendation of the Provincial Council, Ue made :b* the Superintendent; and shall not be alienated ft'em the specific purposes to which they shall have b?en sevrJly dedicated, except under the provisions 'o£ ah .Act oi' the General Assembly, enlituled the -"-VjnWic Reserves Act, 1854;" and n full and compfete dft-cription of every sucli reserve and of the putposes to which it shall have been dedicated shall, as siJon as possible after it shall ha\ c been made, be "mibuShcrt in theti'overnment Gazette of the Province, ajje<t?'-*'ur"l on *nc authenticated maps in the Land ■iSlffw. s Provided that the Superintendent may, if tlie Provincial Council be :iot then sitting, temporarily j-eserve lon] 'or s.ueh purposes until the nc\t'session of nucii Council. ~.,., .... , . % i2O, ReserviAfor public highways, bridle-paths, and Joot-patlw, shalfbe mt'de by the Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the maps in the " oud Office,' The Superintendent and the Provincial Council may by Ordnance alier the line of any such highways, bridle-paths, and foot-patfis, and dispose of tlie land theretofore usjiKfr rfie «'«ne. 21. The Superintendent i"ny temporarily reserve - any land for tfif .preservation tr sale of the timber "'thereon; but stich land may at any time cease to be co —«wrved- upon- a resolution of the Provincial Council. '■ <• '- * ,->-'' *• 22. TheY Superintendent "may, upon the recommendation of tie Provincial Council, by proclamation fn the Government-Gazette, reserve norn tlie operation of these regulations any tract of country m which the precious metals may be found to exis<: and the lantt/whtiin such tract of country si nil lip disposed of ■ according to regulations hereafter to lv issued and published in that behalf; in the".vne manner and under'-the sanus authority w» -1 _»c, -present regulations.'' ' .? ' VI.<—TOWS X.AVBP. 23. Tlie sites of towns shall hf drtspnl' fid by the Superinteiulent, -upon 'the- mi"inmPK«!litlcn of the Provincial Council, and shidl bo I'o*ifieiJ bj proclamation M the Government Gp.tt'tt^. tu* the l*i ivince. 24.i.Town lands shall be said by f.nbLe auc'ibu, in sections, the size and_upset prict. Nt .vi'; £Ji slifiU be determined.by the Superintend! rd - j\ilt', > provincial Council; 'and, having .been so <'i:.m y'^'d, for each town severally, ehall not agairj b-j aY a iC J5. The thne"and place of every, r.c.ico s;i'o ahall fcefixedty thfe Superintendent,-a aC thrill <<c notified in tlie Government' Gazette, and 'me or moil neus- ;-, papers of the Province,- u tit least Miiuy tuyi befin* 11 such sale shall take place, -i » . 26.'Nosueh'»notificatidn/of-iiJiy -ilu fftofu wvid rliall be published until a map of the- lo>>, a, 5 the Chiei .Surveyor,-shall'liftV.? i)(V4i WJJ'-'pMl < 0 public inspection iii'the Land' Office ;' ..tfii *uch .v ] ahall set forth, acc»j-ately delineated, &U 'Jti c tc- \ sections numbered consecutively, ?'$ iur' as U •: >i, Bhowing the sectioij'S to be submitfoa'^oll >al'J,'in'i tl public reserves-in c*U",;eetiO),wirh tltC'^r ' 37. Town sections Jjay be.pi?.iio t$ SiiPt'inveitf ft foy.orderofthcSSuperiritendent, or'upon,lh£ jtftpji'ft tion of some person who shall, at the tirao of •> ■;!>-'»< such application, deposit 'urn per cent', of ihc «™, price witKtho1 Treasurer of the. Waste 'Lanes Jio'.t Such deposits shall, if no advance on the tipsct'tri' 6e made, be considered as tin deposit upon the "*.' at guch public auction. /. ■ 28. If any section shall be purchased by otiier tl ai the original applicant,-the'deposit money fcliall b forthwith returned on demand. • 20. Ten days at least before any such auction ■) 'c a list of all the sections about to be offered 3>t *"' nhall be published in theiGovemment Gazette, f-~a< one or more newspapers of the Prpvince. ,»- SO, -Every auction sale of land shall ne lield by tm Commissioners in open courfc'a^ hereinb'e,fbro pro ' ■3i:Tho person,who shall Ije declaredsolii^hc-. hider' at such auction sliall jmmcdiaijeiy pay a QepoM of ftn per ■cent.'of" tho 'purchase miojqey' tir>lia'¥x£? Mror, and in default thereof v&^ectldnjbiiall bc.-*«f->« faHiaediiitely put-up .to.auction. ? - '\i said to tie Treasurer in fullv.vr^,n <>nft week aftp

;he day of sale; and, in default thereof* the pur •base shall forfeit his deposit money, and-also al •ight or title to the land; and the section may be iold to any person applying for the smne for the price it which it was knocked down at the auction; mid, f not, so sold, the section may Vie again put up to metion at any future sale. .. . ■ 33. Upon payment of the purchase money in lull, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioner a " License to Occupy," in the form set tortn in Schedule A to the "Waste Lauds Regulations, and;uch License shall he restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased." VII. —RURAr. LA.JII). 34. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall he open for sale as rural land, at an uniform price of forty shillings per acre. 85. Save as hereinafter provided, no section ot 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 be sold by auction at the upset price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode ot sale, and payment of purchase money to be as nearly as may be in accordance with the reputations herein contained applicable to the sale of Town Land. Provided, nevertheless, that if any section so limited shall be included in a Pasturage License with 1 reemptive Eight, the holder of such License shall be entitled to exercise 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 m one block, aud, except, as hereinafter provided, ot a rectangular form, and if hounded 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 frontaso 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, m the judgment of the Board, circumstances will admit. . 38. In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded by a frontage line, all the sides may be equal, but one sfde may not be less than one-third of the other; and such section shall'not be less than half a mdc distant from a frontage line.' 39. Any person possessing a section of land may at any time select another adjacent thereto, of such form that the two toaether, 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 he, the land shall be laid off by a Government Surveyor, as nearly in accordance 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 tune of purchase deposit the amount of the estimated cost of such surveys with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board, which shall be 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. ThY" 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 Waste 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. Tin. —compensation lands. 42. Whereas it is desirable that private "persons should be enabled to receive portions of Waste Larid 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 laud which shall'have been taken for the purposes of a road or of any other public work, or in respect of any damages 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 shail be entitled to receive in respect of the land taken for such purposes or'inrespect 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 ot such contract, and shall select such portion of rural land as he shall be 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 uublic sale for such given time but no longer; and" such person shall, on the completion of suc?i contract, be entitled to a free grant of such land, or so much thereof as the Board s-hall adjudge, not exceeding one acre for every two pounds sterling which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste 1 Lands Board to be the bomijitle 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 pale shall be published in tlie;Governmcnt Gazette of the Province, as directed in clause 19 of these Regulations. , . No such reservation shall continue in force lor a longer period than twelve calendar months from the date on which it shall have been made. iNo land included iv a Pasturage License vvith Preemptive Right <-hall, as against the holder of such Pre-emptive Right, be so reseived or giantid until he shall' have been allowed the option of purchasing such land in the manner pre^cubcd in clauses 64 and 06 to these Regulation!). No greater amount of laud than 250 acres shall under the provisions of this clause be reserved or granted to any peibon under any such contract, unless in payment of work for which a vote has been passed by the Provincial Council. No gieater amount of land than 1000 acre's in the aggregate shall, in any one year, he reserved or granted under the provisions ot this clause, without the special sanction of the Provincial Council. Provided ahvajs 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 the-,e Regulations ; provided also that no application for less than 20 acres shall be received under this clause, but that where .niv amount of compensation aw arded by the Board shall bo of less extent than 20 acres of land, tlie 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.—NAVAI, 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 force's as may be discharged as unfit for furthei service in consequence of wounds or lo^s of healti: incurred in the present war with Russia, and also toi the maintenance of the widows of those who may D£ killed in such war:— > Any such person or widow shall, upon applicatior to the Waste Lands Board, and upon the ptoductior of satisfactory evidence from the proper authorities a; .'to such discharge or death, be entitled to receive : fifee grant not exceeding 30 acres ot the \V astc Land! within this Province, subject to the conditions as ti farm and frontage contained in these Regulations provided always that such application shall be mad( to the "v* as>te Lands Board by such person or widov in person within three years after such discharge oi .deatlu \ '"'■' X.—PASTURAGE. - 145.* Until sold, granted, or reserved for public purposes as herein provided, the Waste Lands may bi occupieds for pasturage purposes by persons holdiiif licenses fi om the Waste Lands Board to occupy tin same, i' ,> \, " ' • 46. Any person applying for a pasturage license feliall 6tate to the Commissioner!, what aie the bonnj'daries and extent of the run applied for, and tin Jiiihmber and'description of the stock which he post 'esses, or will undertake to place upon the run withh i '\,elve months from the date of the license. "/ >A7i The eitent.of run allowed to each npplican *T '• '-1..U be at the.rate of>l2o acres to every head of grea S''c o^le iand 20 .acres ito every head of small cattle 1 TJio words <f great qattle" shall be construed to meai !! horned cattle, 'horscsj mules, and asses, male and feI mal", with their ,ofispring above six months of age fluid thefvoftls^'ismall cattle" shall be construed t< ;! ruran. sheep/male and female, with their weaned oft'--1 i ''48. Every pasturage'run shall be in one block, and •I is iar as1 circumstances 'will' admit, of a r-cetangula-i form: %hei&oatnge, uUifer ordinary circumstances ' sbalf'ndt'beferesfer tn!m one-half the depth. I ' J49 The fecs.-tu lie pu;d for the. license shall be at th< x Jb}lu-yi'<f'-r'>tW'—?''••• '••"„ "i$ containing less thai ?1j Oil - ■Tts.'vWi". *.su:- Tlv u.rj&gry hundred acres -{Oirtk"? two--eacb pur »»■ '^^^^^t thousand

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 sultscquent year; provided that the first year shall be taken to bo the'time elapsing from the date of the original license to the first day of May next following. '. 50. JTo pasturaare license shall be granted for a less annual fee than £-2 10s. ■• 51. The fee "shall he paid to the Treasurer of,the Waste Land Board every year, in advance; for t!ie first year on the issue of the license, and for thesecind and every subsequent, year on any sitting day of tlie Board, between the 20th day of April and the first day of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not renewed bynayment of the required fee, on or before the first daf of Mny, shall, unless good cause to tlie 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 Waate Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable, by endorsement in tiie form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer sliall be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof being duly given to the Waste Lands Board, and not before. A p'osturaise license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pnstuvnge 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 i'ee to be paid in respect of such license shall not be altered until the Ist May, 1870. Such license shall give, no riffht to the soil or to the timber, and shall nnmediately~determine over any land which may be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable right of way shall be allowed tlirough all pasturage runs. 53. If at any time during'the- first four years after the issue of the fust license the quantity of stock for the run shall be less than that originally required, or during tlie 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 shal! 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 jassing of these regulations from actually, for a given >eriod, 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 he shall wilfully and knowingly make any false return, the Waste Lands Board shall immediately declare his license to be forfeited.. 58. Every lain or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as above provided, sliall 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 CO 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 takinsr out a lii ease for a run which is not stocked will be required to deposit with the Treasurer the sum often shillings for every hundred acres included in the license, which willibe 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. .-.::.-.• ' . . ■-' ■'' ' 60. Every holder of a pasturage license 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 of"s 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 pin-poses of this clause,' together with fifty acres comprising and circumjacent to the lands so occupied or improved.. :.'.,' (31. The Licensee shall at. the time of his application to'the Board give a.sufh'eient description of the lands over which he claims sucli pre-emptive right, to. the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor. Aud the same shall be marked off on the authenticated Maps in the Land Office. fi2. The lands included in such pre-emptive right may he of such form as the applicant shall choose ; but any land purchased by him in the exercise of such right si jail be subject to tlie regulations as to form and frontage herein contained. ;63. The Waste Lands Board shall not receive .nor entertain any application to purchase, from any pei-son other than the runholder, the aforesaid block around the homestead or principal station which does not include the whole of such block. - 64. The right of pre-emption hereby givenshall be exercised within one week for all lands within twenty miles 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 ofservice'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 noticemav beserved 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. 7 ■ 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 H'ing granted, or forfeit such deposit, i Such deposit, however, shall be immediately; returned on demand, if the holder of the pre-emptive right sliall give notice of his intention to purchase any portion of the land applied for, and pay the requisite deposit. .. :66. If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the land appliedfor, 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 vyitliin »a weeks thereafter have paid the remainder of thepurchase.money, he shall forfeit such deposit, to'gethei with all right or title to the land. * If the holder of any pre-emptive right other'thai those created by clause CO of the Waste Lands Regti: lations shall neglect or refuse to purchase any portion of the land applied for, such portion shall from ant immediately after such neglect or refusal be releasec from all right of pre-emption and open to purchase on the terms of these Regulations, as if the same line not been included'in any pre-emptive right. 67. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive 'right ii: connection with purchased lands, whether .under the Canterbury Association or the Crown, shall, from ant after the first' day of April, one thousand eighi hundred.and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to'bt pasturage licenses over the lands-included therein, upon the terms of■-these Regulations,-"'with a preemptive right over all such-, land, to be exercised subcct to these Regulations as regards notice of application, payment of deposit, purchase money, price o land, and size and shape of blocks.' If the laht covered by such pre-emptive right shall be includet within the limits of a run held by license, un'dei clauses 50 and 53, tiie holder thereof in paying rentfor the same may take credit for the amountpait by Jiiin in respect of lands covered by such pre-emp-tiye right, ■■:,:■.-■.''■■■. : : ';- ;68. -Holders of pasturage licenses without pra emptive right sliall be entitled/to hold such licenses o: to liave them renewed upon the terms :of their con. tract with the Canterbury Association or the'• Crown as fife case may/be; but if any person holding! license under the Canterbury- Association or tin Crown shall .-voluntarily resign the same, he shall b> entitled to receive a license under thc^c Regulations and sliall from the date of such exchange hold his rui at the rate and on the conditions specified in thes Regulritions. C 9. If any person exchanging his license shall fo any period included in the new license have paid rcn at n higher rate than would be payable under sue! license, such overpayment shall be adjusted at the nex payment of rent. 70. In the event of improvements having been of fected by the licensee of a run on any land whiel shall be reserved by the General Government or b the Provincial Government under these Regulation* the licenseee shall receive payment of th value of such improvements, such value to be de cided by arbitration under direction of the Wiu-t Lands Board, and to be paid by the Treasurer of th Waste Lands Board out of the land fund. 71. All payments on account of pasturage run Bhall in future be made on or before the first day c May in accordance v\ ith clause 51, at the Laud Office at Christchurch, and the Waste* Lands Board shal s,it at that place for the Treasurer to receive th same. 72 All payments to be made on account ot pastur ao-e runs before the first day of May next ensuinj shall be made for the portion of the year only whici shall elapse between such day of payment and th said first day of May. 73. In calculating the amount of the license fee am the stock required to be on the run, the year com mencing oil the said first day of May shall be deeinei to be tlie same year as that for which such part pay ment shall have been made. 74. Notwithstanding 'ahyjiitvj contained, in thesi iizulMions, it shall be lawi^^Mbe; Governor, upoi .§= l'-commwtdfitioa oi tb.i'i^^fcß.tot and-Pri

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 sultscquent year; provided that the first year shall be taken to bo the'time elapsing-from the date of the original license to the first day of May next following. '. 50. JTo pasturage license shall be granted for a less annual fee than £3 10s. ■• 51. The fee "shall he paid to the Treasurer of,the Waste Land Board every year, in advance; for t!ie ■first year on the issue of the license, and for thesecind and every subsequent, year on any sitting day of tlie Board, between the 20th day of April and the first day of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not renewed bynayment of the required fee, on or before the first dnf of Mny, shall, unless good cause to tlie 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 Waate Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable, by endorsement in tiie form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer sliall be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof being duly given to the Waste Lands Board, and not before. A pnsturaise license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pnstuvnge 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 i'ee to be paid in respect of such license shall not be altered until the Ist May, 1870. Such license shall give, no riffht to the soil or to the timber, and shall nnmediately~determine over any land which may be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable right of way shall be allowed tlirough all pasturage runs. 53. If at any time during'the- first four years after the issue of the fust license the quantity of stock for the run shall be less than that originally required, or during tlie 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 shal! 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.

vinoia! Conn i), at any time, and from time to time, b 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 bs of no eifect; on and from which day, all such licences 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 Landa 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 timher not removed within such time may be again put up to public auction. 76. IS ro person shall, without, a license, cut or remove any timber from any Waste Lands of the Crown (except timher which he shall have purchased under the last clause) ; and 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 monthly license, and of £5 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 shaHcut 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 thercarter 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 hereincontained respecting timber, or to have wilfully or negligently inured or destroyed by fire or otherwise any timber be-, longing to the Crown, such' license shall be, and shall • be lmmediatelydeclared to be forfeited, and it shall be at the discretion of the Board to refuse to issue another timber license to the same person^ -^ _■._■■■■ ■■