RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 144, 2 May 1862, Page 3

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Forthe isme of Pasture and Timber Licenses for the Occupation of .Waste Lands of the Crown outside hundreds. Issue of Depasturing Licenses outside the Boundaries of Proclaimed Hundreds. 87. Any person requiring a License for a Run on unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands shall lodge with the Waste Land Board a description of such Run (as near as may be in the form of Schedule E hereunto annexed) together with a tracing of the , Land applied for. 88. If no objection exists to the applicant being allowed to occupy such Run, the Waste Land Board shall thereupon publicly notify that the Land specified in the application has been claimed as a Run, and the said Board shall at the same time publish in the "Provincial Government Gazette," or in a local newspaper whenever it has the means of so doing, a description ofthe Run and the name of the person claiming the same. 89. No person shall be allowed to dispute the claim of another person to any Run described according to these Regulations, unless he shall do so within three months subsequent to the date of the publication above alluded to; GO. From the date of the expiration of tbe above-named period of three montlis, the applicant sliall be required to pay rent for the Run at the rate and in the manner hereinafter mentioned; and he shall be required to distinguish, by marked treeii or posts, or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the said Waste Land Board, such boundaries of the Run as are not distinctly defined by streams or other natural boundaries.- j--91. Any person who shall have a Run, or any considerable part thereof unoccupied by the requisite amount of stock for a period of six mouths after he shall have claimed the same, shall be liable to be regarded as having abandoned such Run or part thereof and it shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board publicly to notify that such Run or part thereof has been so abandoned, and the same may thereupen be given into the occupation of any other applicant. 92. In estimating the sufficiency of stock for any Run applied for the Waste Land Board shall not allow for natural increase of stock upon the Rttn in any greater proportions than those set forth in the following scale: — I For any number of sheep up to 500, a Run may be granted oaloulated to de- .... paster*. »Df ittatw not fswediug — £000 »hwp

For every additional hundred between 500 and 1000 for 500 ~l „ 1000 and " 3000 „400(. Additional „ 3000 and 5000 „ 200 f Sheep. 5000 and 10.000 „ 100,1 And in no case shall a run be granted capable or containing move than 25,000 sheep. In estimating Runs for great cattle, one head of such cattle shall be ratal as si:: sheep. 33. In cnao of any question arising as to attempts to evade die foregoing Regulation, or to obtain unduly the benefits thereof, tbe Waste Land Board shall have power to decide such questions in such manner as may most effectually carry out the true spirit aud meaning of such Regulation. 1)4. So soon as tbo occupant of any Run shall iv the opinion of the Waste Land Bound have sufficienly stocked tho same he shall be entitled tc a License to depasture stock upon it for fourteen years in the form or Shednle F. hereunto annexed, andsubject to the following conditions :— 1. If" at any time during the currency of such License, the land comprised therein, or any part thereof, shall be included within the boundaries of any Hundred, the said License shall cease and determine ;us to so much of the land as shall be included within such boundaries from and after a day to be named iv tha Proclamation by which such Hundreds sliall be constituted. *2. If at any time during tne currency of such License, the land comprised therein, or any part thereof, shall be sold by or on behalf of tlie Crown, then and in that case also the said license shall cease and determine as to so mucb of the laud as shall be sold as aforesaid, from and after the day of the date of the Provincial Government Gazette iv which notice of suck said shall be published. 3. The Annual License fee shall bo in all cases at least five pounds and every occupier of a Run shall pay annually in addition a further License fee at the rate of one pound sterling for every thousand sheep above five thousand which the Run so occupied shall be estimated to be capable of containing, and in the same proportion for great cattle ; six sheep beins rated as sue head of great cattle. 4. If at any time during the currency of such Lcense such annual fees, and the annual assess? ment imposed by law shall not be paid by the Holder of such License in the manner and at the time required by these Regulations; then and in that ease the said license shall cease and determine,'and the Waste Laud Board shall thereupon be empowered to notify publicly the forfeiture of such License, and te" let the" Run to which it relates by Public Auction to th* highest bidder for n. term of fourteen years subject to the conditions of these Regulations, and of any Law for the Regulation of pastora pur- . _ suits. 95. No such License for fourteen years shall be granted to any applicant for a Run until he shall have paid ail arrears of reut and assessments whicli may be ov.ing by him for such Run. 90. Iv the eveut of any dispute arising between two or more claimants regarding the boundaries of their respective Runs, it shall be lawful fbr the Waste Land Bo«rd to make such alterations, in the boundariesotlieir Runs, or of any of them as it may, upon inquiry, judge to be just and expedient. ISSUE OF TIMBER LICENSES. 97. It shall be lawful for the Waste Laud Board ta grant a License to any person to cut timber ou the Waste Lauds of the Crown upon payment of aiee o not less than £1 fbr each such License. 93. The Waste Land Board, shall determine the extent of land to wliich such License shall give a right of occupancy, and the Licenses shall have effect onljwithin thb district specified in them. 09. Every Timber License shall be in the form, set forth in Schedule G. hereunto annexed. GENERAL. 100. All licenses shall be drawn so as to expire simultaneously on the last day of each year. *101. No license shall preclude the Waste Land Board from selling, or shall in any way affect the rights of tho Crown to the Land occupied iv virtue of such License. 102. All disputes between holders of Licenses to cut timber or depasture stock, shall be heard and decided by the Waste Land Board. 103. Licenses for depasturing purposes may be transferred from oue person to another with the consent of the Waste Land Board. DEFINITION OP WASTE LANDS OF THE CROWN. 104. The term "Waste Lands of the Crown" and "^Vaste Laud" throughout these regulations, shall be deemed to include all such land within the Province of Otago as is declared by the 72d Section of the Constitution Act to be Waste Lands ofthe Crown * Clause 83, Sub-section 2 Clause 94, and Ciaus» 101. Those clauses are modified or repealed by the Land Sales and Leases Ordinances, 1856, -wliich enacts, " That if the conditions of a pasturage lease shall be duly fulfilled,the land forming such run shall not be sold without the consent ofthe lessee, until proclaimed a Hundred." . SCHEDULES. The various schedules referredto in the regulation* are merely forms, printed copies of which may always be obtained at the office of the Waste Land Board.