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Otago Daily Times, Issue 149, 8 May 1862, Page 7

•;:j. if iiny j>oiM)ii fliiill com tract with the Superintcinleut to make ami complete, wiihin a given time, ■my public roiul, In-iilir", ur driin, or any part of any suel' road, bridur, or div.in, faniislmiir s-'.ich sccurily as the Superintendent iray require for I lie due completion of sue!) contract, anil shall select such portion of ruvn! land as ho slmli bu willing to accept hy way of payment or eoinii.'nsnlimi, or hy why of jiarl payment or compensation for such work ; it, shall be lawful lbr the Superintendent to reserve such portion of land from public sale for "inch eiven time hut no longer; ami such person shall, on" the completion of such contract, be entitled to a free grant of such land, , or so much thereof as the Board shall adjudge, not exceeding one acre for every two pounds sirring ; which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Hoard to be the bonajide valueof.thp 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 sale , shall be published in the Government Gazette of the , Province, as directed in clause 19 of these Regulation's. >....■'■.: j ' No such reservation shall continue in fores for a , longer period than twelve calendar months from the 1 date on which it shall have been made. ...... No land included in a Pasturage License with Pre- J emptive Eight shall, as against" the holder of such Pre-emptive Right, be so reserved or granted until he shall have been allowed the option of purchasing '' such land in the manner prescribed.in clauses 04 and ' 6G to these Regulations. ' ' No greater amount of land 'than 250 acres.shall { under the provisions of this clause be reserved or j granted to any person under any such contract, un- ! less in payment of work for which a vote has been ' passed by the Provincial Council. ' No greater amount of land than 1000 acres in the ' aggregate shall, in any one year, he reserved or granted under the provisions' or. this clause, without ' the special sanction of the Provincial Council. . ! Provided always that every pareelof land so granted j shall he subjected to the same jotiditions as to form' ' and frontage as any rural lana so -(under these Re- > gulations; provided also tha 1 no application for less ( than 20 acres shall be received under this clause, but that where any amount of compensation awarded by the Board shall be of less extent than 20 acres of land, t the person entitled may pay the balance in cash upon 1 the same terms as other applicants for the purchase c of rural lands under these Regulations. i IX.—:SAVAL AND JIJI.ITARY BOUKTIEB. I 44. Whereas the Superintendent and the Proyin- ( cial Council and other the inhabitants of Canterbury i are desirous to aid in making provision for the maintenance of such persons of Her Majesty's land and ( sea forces as may be discharged as unfit for further ( service in consequence of wounds or loss of health t incurred in the present war with Russia, and also for I the maintenance of the widows of those who may be i killed in such war:— ~ . , ; { Any such person or widow, sr all,' upon application c to the Waste Lands Board, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence from the proper authorities as t to such;discharge or death, be entitled: to receive a i free grant not exceeding 30 acres pf the W.aste Lands ( within this Province, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage contained in these Regulations; t provided always that such application shall be made i to the Waste Lands Board by such person or widow \ in person within three years after such discharge or t death. • X.—PASTURAGE. 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public pur- t poses as herein provided, the Waste Lands maybe t occupied for pasturage purposes by persons holding licenses from the Waste Lands. Board to occupy the j same. , . _ '■. , 46. Any person applying for a pasturage license , shall state to the Commissioners what are the boun- ' daries and extent of the run applied for, and the l r number and description of the stock which he pos- j Besses, or will undertake to place upon the run witliintwolve months from the date of the license. 47. The extent of run allowed to each applicant f shall be at the rate of 120 acres to eveiy head of great J cattle, and 20 acres to every head of small cattle. ' The words " great cattle" shall be construed to mean I horned cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male and female, with their offspring above six months of age; i and the words "small cattle" shall be construed to. f mean sheep, male and female, with their weaned off- < spring. '■--.- 1 48. Every pasturage run shall be in one block, and, i as far as pircu,mstances will admit, of a rectangular < form: the frontage, under ordinary circumstances, ■ shall not be greater than one-half the depth. , ' 49. The fee" to be paid for the license shall be at the ollowing rates:—For every run containing less than t 1000 acres, twenty,shillings for every hundred acres; J for every run containing 1000 acres, and not less than i 5000 aciss, two^-pence per acre for the, first thousand s and one penny per acre.for every acre in addition. f For'every, run eontnininer WOO acres or npwards. one forthing per acre for-the first and second years, j one half-penny per acre for the third and fourth years, s three-farthings per acre for the fifth and every suljse- s querit year; provided that the first year shall.be taken i to>be the tune elapsing from the date of the original license to the first day of May next following. j .'SO. No pasturage license shall be grunted for a less , annual fee than £210s. ■ j 51. The fee shall be paid to the Treasurer of the , Waste Land Board every year, in advance; for the first year'on the issue of the license, and for the second and every subsequent year on any sitting day of the j Board, between the 20th day of April and the first day J of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not renewed by payment of the required fee, on or before 1 the first day of May, shall, unless good cause to the ■■ 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 j forth in the Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regula- ' tibnsy andshall be transferable by.endorsement in the ' form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer shall ' be deemed to be complete upon notice thereof being J duly given to the Waste Lands Board, and not ( before, j A pasturage license shall entitle the holder thereof to ! the exclusive right pf pasturage over the land specified j 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 fee to be paid in respect of such 'license shall not be filtered until the May, 1870. Such license shall give no rigtit to the spjlpr 'to tlie timber, and shall immediately determine over any.land.which may be purchased, f granted, or reserved under these regulations. Area- c sonable right of way shall be allowed through all pas- ( turage runs. t 53. It at any time during the first four veal's after f the issue of the first license the quantity of stock for c the run shall be less than that originally required, or during the 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 tp be forfeited.; pro- , vided always that with regard to runs granted prior to i the issue of these Regulations such first period, of four j years shall 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 1 period, placing his stock on Ins 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 n the run at-the expiration of such peoiod. c 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 thestock , on his run: and if he shall wilfully and knowingly ] make any false return, the Waste Lands Board shall s immediately declare his license to be forfeited. J 56. Every run or portion thereof which shall have ; been forfeited, as above provided; shall be put up by ( the Waste Lauds Board to public auction, after an ad'- .-, vertisement in the Government: Gazette, and one or j 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 for- ' feited, within 00 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 taking out a license 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, wliich will be returned without interest as soon as he shall, have fulfilled the conditions in respect to stocking the run within the prescribed 1 period; but if such conditions be not fulfilled such de- ' posits shall be forfeited '• 58." The above rules in respect tostocking ft. run, and to the lodgment of the money with the Treasurer, shall not apply to 'Tins containing less than 5000 acres. < 59. Every bolder 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. Eyery 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 imt less han 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, over a block of land compris- ' ing 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 200 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 purposes of this clause, together with fifty acres comprising and circumjacent to the lands so oc«»pi«<l or improved, •- -