RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 145, 3 May 1862, Page 3

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

For the issue 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 fon unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands shall lodge with the Wa'.te Land Board a description of such Bun (as near as may be in the form of Schedule E hereunto annexed) together with a tracing of the Laud 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 of the 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. 90. From the date of the expiration of the above-named period of three months, the applicant, shall 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 trees 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. 91. Any person who shall have a Rnn, or any considerable part thereof unoccupied by the requisite amount of stock for a period of six months after he shall have claimed the same, shall he liable to be regarded as having abandoned such Ilun 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 natnral increase of stock upon the Run in any greater proportions than those set forth in the following scale: — For any number of gheep up to 500, A Run may be granted calculated to defuttvrt nay raitor s«t tamdiif — OTW «fcwp

Por every additional bundi-od between 500 and 1000 for 500") ~ 1000 ami 3000 „ -100 ( Additional ~ 3000 ami 5000 .„ 200 f Shoeji. ..-„ . 5000 and 10.000 „ 100 J Am! in no case shall a run be granted capabla or containing move LUan 25,000 Uieep. In estimating Runs for ;.TCiifc cattle, one head of such cattla thali be rated as six sheep. So. In -.;>ise of any question' arising as to attempts to evade tiio foregoing Regulation, ov to obtain unduly the benefits thereof, die Waste Land Hoard shall liave power to decide s>ueh questions in such manner as may most effectually carry out the true spirit and meaning of such Regulation. 91". So soon as tlie occupant of any Run shall in. the opinion of the Waste Land Board have Kuilicienly stocked the same he shall be entitled to a License to depasture stock upon it for fourteen years in the form of Shedule V. hereunto annexed, ar.d subject to the following conditions :— » 1. If at any time during the currency of such Liccns-c, the land comprised therein, or any part thereof, shall be included within the boundaries of any Hundred, the said License shall cease and determine as to so much of tho land a:s shall bo included within such boundai'ies from and after a day to be named in the Proclamation by which such Hundreds shall 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 the Crown, then and in that case also the said license shall ceasu and determine as to so much of the land as shall be sold as aforesaid, from and after the day of the date of the Provincial Government Gazette in which notice of such sale shall be published. 3. The Annual License fee shall bo in ftll cases at least live pounds and every occupier of a Kirn. 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 ; sis sheep being rated as one head of great cattle. ■' 4. If at any time during the currency of such license such annual fees, and the annual assessi inent 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 case the said License shall cease and determine, and the Waste Land Board shall thereupon be empowered to notify publicly tha forfeiture of such License, and to let the Ruu to ■which it relates by Public Auction to the highest bidder for a term of fourteen year,-! subject to the conditions of these Regulations, and of nuy Law for the Regulation of pastora. pursuits. 95. No such License for fourteen years shall be granted to any applicant for a Itun until he shall have paid all arrears of rent and assessments which may be owing by him for such Run. 90. In the event of any dispute arising'between two or more claimauts regarding the boundaries of their respective Huns, it shall 1)3 lawful for the Waste Land Bo >rd to make sue!! alterations, in the boundaries o their Runs, or of any of them as it may, upon inquiry, judge to be just and expedient. ISSUE OV TIItfBEIt LICENSES. 97. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board to grant a License to any person to cut timber on tho Waste Lands of the Crown upon payment of a ice o not less than £1 for each such License. 93. The Waste Land Board, shall determine the extent of land to which such License shall give a right of occupancy, and the Licenses shall have eflcet only within the district specified in them. S9. Every Timber License shall be in the form set forth in Schedule G. hereunto annexed. GENEaA.L. 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 aiiect tho .rights of the Crown to the Land occupied in virtue of such License. 102. All disputes bstween holders of Licenses to cut timber or depasture stock, shall be heard aud decided by the Waste Land Board. 103. Licenses for depasturing purposes may ba transferred from one person to another with the consent of the Waste Land Board. DKFJKITION OV WASTE LANDS OP THE GROWS. 104. The tsrm "Waste Lands of the Crown " and " Waste Land" throughout these regulations, shall b_e deemed to include all such land within thei Province of Otago as is declared by the 7i'd Section of the Constitution Act to be Waste Lands of the Crown * Clause 83, Sub-section 2 Clause 91, and Clause 101. These clauses are modified or repealed by ti:o Land Sales and Leases Ordinances, 1856, which enacts, " That if the conditions of a pasturage leasei shall be duly fulnlled,the land forming such run shall not be sold without the consent of the lessee, until proclaimed a Hundred." SCHEDULES. Tlie various schedules reforredto in the regulations are merely forms, printed copies of which may always be obtained at the office got' the Waste Land Board.