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Otago Daily Times, Issue 94, 5 March 1862, Page 3

18—Uvthe 62nd clause of tile Constitution Act fi; the Governor is authorised and required to pay out,o «' the revenue arisin"' from the-disposal ot-.-the Waste M Lands of t lie Crown all the costs, clr.irges, '.met ex- *l nouses incident t.o the collection, management, and ti ri ceipt thereof; and also to pay out ofthe said li-veuves p Mich sums as shall become payable under certain n oth-r m-ovi'-ious therein contained. The Treasurer, of o: the Ws*fe Lauds Hoard shall, therefore, pay outof ah .-lie funds coming into his hands under these regitla- ti rions till such sums for the above-named purposes,-in a such manner and to such poisons jjas the. Governor si -Jifill direct. a V.—PUBLIC RESERVES. Jj 19. Reserves for the uses ofthe Provincial Govern- o ■iier.t and for other public purposes may, upon the n recommendation of the Provincial Council, be made ii by the Superintendent; aud shall not be alienated 1; irom the specific purposes to which they shall have k been severally dedicated, except under the provisions si of an Act of the General Assembly, entituled the o " Public Reserves Act. 185-1;" and a full and com- c plcte description of every such reserve and of the v purposes to which it shall have, been dedicated shall, I ts soon as possible after it shall have bociv made, be .J published in the Government Gazette ofthe Province, a -ml set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land c Office. Provided that the Superintendent may, if the Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily si reserve land for such purposes until the next session 1 of such Council. ' ' fi 120. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths, shall be made by the Superintendent, and k shall be set forth on the authenticated maps in the d Land Oflice. The Superintendent and the Provincial Council may by Ordinance alter the line of any such ,> highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths, and dispose oi 1 the land theretofore used for the same. h 21. The Superintendent may temporarily reserve sany land for the preservation or sale ofthe timber (J thereon: but such land may at any time cease to be so reserved upon a resolution of the Provincial n Council. g 22. The Superintendent may, upon the recom- li inendation of the Provincial Council, by proclamation j, in the Government Gazette, reserve from the operation of these regulations any tract of country iv which a the precious metals may be found to exist: ancl tlie is laud within such tract of country shall be disposed of j t according to regulations hereafter to bo issued and published in that behalf; in the same manner s i and under the same authority as these present n regulations. g VI. —TOWN LANDS. t 23. The sites of towns shall be determined by the |: Superintendent, upon the recommendation of the j Provincial Council, and shall be notified by procla- l. matioit in the Government Gazette of the I rovince. 24. Town Lands shall be sold by public auction, in ° sections, the size and upset price of which shall be determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; and having been so determined, for each town severally, shall hot again be altered. c 25. The time aud place of every auction sale shall a be fixed by the Superintendent, and shall he notified t, in the Government Gazette, ami oue or more news- s. papers of the Province, at least thirty days befor" s< such sale shall take place. h 20. No such notification of any sale of town lands t T shall be published uutil a map ofthe town, signed by k the Chief Surveyor, shall have been laid open for public inspection "in the Land Oflice: and such map ti shall set forth, accurately delineated, all the town ci sections numbered consecutively, so far as laid out, t showing the sections to be submitted for sale, and the fi public reserves in connection with them. v 27. Town sections may be put up to auction, cither fi by order ofthe Superintendent, or upon the applica- p tion of some person who shall, at the time of making f such application, deposit ten per cent, of the upset i, price with the Treasurer of the AA'aste Lands Board, d Such deposits shall, if no advance on the upset price o: made, be considered as the deposit upon the sale at such public auction. " 28. if any section shall be'purchased by other than p tlie original applicant, the deposit money shall be 0 forthwith returned on demand. li 29. Ten days at least before any such auction sale, s ja list of ail the sections about to be offered for sale shall be published in the Government Gazette, and .^ jone or more newspapers ofthe Province. d 30. Every auction sale of land shall be held by the ~ Commissioners in open court as hereinbefore pro- s Ivided. , ~ , t 31. The person who shall be declared the highest hider at such auction shall immediately pay a deposit s often ppr cent, of tbe purchase money to t he Trea- c suror, and in default thereof, the section shall be again 'j Immediately put up to auction. li paid to the' Treasurer in full, within one week after „ 3->. The remainder of the purchase money slml Ibr a the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the pur ,- chase "shall forfeit his deposit money, and also al s right or title to the land; and the section maybe sold to any person applying for the same for the price fl at which it was knocked down at the auction; and, f if not. so sold, the section may be again put up to s auction at any future sale. - .. . . ,„ 33. Upon payment of the purchase money in full, f the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a 1 '• License to Occupy," in the form set forth in f Schedule A to the AVaste Lands Regulations, and ; such License shall be restored to the Commissioners jj upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased. ' VII. —RURAL LAND. ( 34. All lands not included in any ofthe foregoing c f reatilafions shall be open for sale as rural land, tit an ( ' uniform price of forty shillings per acre. . 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section ol Rural Land shall be sold, containing less than twenty acres; but any section so limited by frontage lines or r private lands as to contain less than twenty acres may ' he sold by auction at tbe upset price of forty shilling's , per acre; the time ancl place of sale, and the mode of . |sa!e, ancl payment of purr-rase money to be as nearly r 'as may be in accordance with the regulations 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 PreTempfivo Right, the holder of such License shall be J entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Bight under these Regulations upon payment of the sum of forty I pounds for such section. . : 30. Every section of rural land sliall be -n one j block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectjant'ular 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 ov watercourse which shall have been declared [ by notification in the Government Gazette to consti- j tiite a frontage for the purpose of selection. 37. AVhere, from the frontage not being a straight I 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, tbe form of the section shall be determined ; as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the ; judgment ofthe Board, circumstances will admit. ' | !&. In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded by a frontage line, all the sides may be equal, but one '.side may not be loss than one-third of the other; and' !such section shall not be less than half a mile distant* jfroin a frontage line. I j 39. Any person possessing a section of land may at iany 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| Isecrion under the foregoing rules. | 40. Immediately on the payment of the purchase | money, the purchaser shall receive from the Commis-| Uioncrs a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth, |in the Schedule B hereunto'annexed; and as soon, i thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall be ■laid off by a Government Surveyor, as nearly iv nek'ordnnce'with the description given by the purchaser I in his application as these regulations will admit; i provided that whenever the lands selected lie without Ihe surveyed districts, the expense ofthe survey and of connecting such survey with the; existing surveys shall be borne hy the purchaser, who shall at the time of purchase deposit, the amount of the estimated cost of such surveys with the Treasurer of the AVaste Lands Board, which shall be made as soon as practicable, by order of tho Chief Surveyor. Provided ahyays, that should any seotion 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 whicli tlio purchaser may experience, nor will the purchase money be returned. Provided also, that if the Surveyor shall I find that the whole extent of land in the selected locality fails short of the quantity paid for by_ the purchaser, the Treasurer shall repay so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price ofthe land to be conveyed. The " License to Occupy" shall, in any such case, be amended by the Commissioners, in accordance with the rt>port of the Surveyor, anel the Crown Grant sliall be made out in accordance therewith; and the "License" sliall be returned to tlie Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall be issued. 41. Any person making a ditch and bank fence to lands adjoining AA'aste 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 tban six feet in width. VIII.—COMPENSATION LANDS. 42. AVbereas it is desirable that private persons . should be enabled to receive portions of AVaste 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 I which shall have been taken for the purposes of a : road or of any other public work, or in respect of any l damages done to his property by the taking of such land tor such purposes, such person shall, upon appli-