LAND SALES AND LEASES ORDINANCE 1856.

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

LAND SALES AND LEASES ORDINANCE 1856.

This Ordinance, which was npproved by the Governor in 1857, provides for the sale of large "blocks of land (not less than 2000 acres) at the fixed price of 10s. per acre, and without conditions of purchase, the total quantity of such land not to exceed 600,000 acres. Ita provisions are as follows :— 1. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Boanl to sell Waste Lands ofthe Crown situated outside Hundreds, proclaimed or to be proclaimed, to an extent not exceeding Six Hundred Thousand Acres, in blocks of not less than Two Thousand Acres, at the price ot Ten Shillings per Acre, without stipulating as a condition of j sale or of purchase, that the purchasers shall lay out upon the lands, in money or labor, a sum •qual te! Forty Shillings per acre; from which sttpulation.such lauds, to the extent above mentioned, shall be and are hereby exempted. 2. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board to insert'in-every .certificate of selection oflandsoldor to be sold in virtue of the Land Regulations whicb are now or hereafter may be in force a stipulation that the sale of such land has been made, subject to the provisions of the " Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1856." 3. During the currency of any lease granted or to be granted of any Run for Sheep or Cattle, situated outside of any Hundred, proclaimed or to be proclaimed, !if the terms and conditions of such lease shall be'and continue to be didy fulfilled, the land forming such Run shall not be liable to be sold without consent of the Lessee, anything to the contrsry herein contained notwithstanding. 4. Provided that it shall be in the power of the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, to authorise tlie Waste Land Board to refuse to grant Leases of Runs, both within any district whicli he shall, with such advice and consent, frbni time to. time determine to reserve open for sale, in j pursuance of the first section of this Ordinance, and also within any district which he shall, witb siich advice aud consent, recommend to the Govermor to proclaim a Hundred until the determination of the Governor upon any such recommendation shill be ascertained; and provided also that nothing herein contained shall impair the right of the Governor, from time to time, to proclaim Hundreds, or the force of any Regulations applicable ia lands situated therein. 5. This Ordinance shall be deemed to be part ofthe Land Regulations of the Province of Otago, and auy rule or clause in the said Regulations repugnant here-> to shall be hold and construed to be modified or repealed, to the extent of allowing full effect to be given to this Ordinance.