61. The Licensee shall at the time of bis application to the Bonn! give a sufficientdescription of the land's over wliicn lie claims such pre-emptive 'right, to the satisfaction of. the . Chief Surveyor.- And the same shall be marked off on he authenticated Maps in the Land Office. -." ; ■■ • ■ ■■ ' . ."..., o'2. The lands included in such pre-emptive righ may be of such form as. the applicant shall choose; : but any land purchased by him in 'the exercise of such - right shall be subject to the regulations as to form aud ; frontage herein, contained.. . " : '. '■ ■~'63/ The Waste Lands Board shall not receive nor' entertain aiiy application to purchase, from any person other than the runholder, the aforesaid block around the homestead or principal station which does not include the whole of such block. 64. The right of pre-emption hereby given shall be exercised within one week for all lauds within twenty miles of the Land Office, at Ciiristehureh; ami within one month for all lands Bfa greater distance therefrom';' Such lime being reckoned" from the date of service of a written notice from the Waste Lands Board, setting forth a copy of the application for any nf the lands included in the pre-einptiyc .right.. Such ' notice may be served either'personally on (he runholder, or by leaving the same at his last-known ' place of abode within the Province, or at the principal i homestead or station on the run. ; 65. The applicant for any rural land included in any pre-emptive right shall deposit with the Treasurer , of the Waste Lands Board a sumequalto 4s. peracre ' of the purchase money, and the remainder fie shall ' pay within one week from the date of his application ! being granted, or forfeit such deposit. Such deposit, however, shall be immediately returned on demand, : if the holder of the pre-emptive right shall give notice ' of his intention to purchase any portion of the land ' applied for, and pay the requisite deposit. ; .. j j CO. If the holder of the pre-emptive right decide t upon purchasing any portion of the land applied for, ] he shalVforthwith pay to the Treasurer of the Waste c Lands Board a deposit of 4s. per acre 6f thepuntbaso ( money ot such portion; and, if he-shall not \*V '"jn six weeks thereafter have paid the remainder of iia purchase money, he shall forfeit such deposit, together with all' right or title to the land. If the holder of auy pre-emptive right other than those created by clause CO of the Waste Lands Regulations shall neglect or refuse to* purchase any portion rf the laud applied for, such portion shall "from and immediately after such neglect or refusal be released i from all right of pre-emption and open to purchase sn the terms of these Regulations, as if the same had lot been included in any pre-emptive right. 67. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive right in t connection with purchased glands, whether under the ■, Canterbury Association or the Crown, shall, from and < lfter the first day of April, one thousand eight i iiundred and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to be g pasturage licenses over the lands included therein, i iipon the terms of these Regulations, with a "pre- ( smptive rigbfover all such land, to be exercised'siib- i eet to these Regulations as regards notice of applica- j tion, payment of deposit, purchase money, price ot < land, .and size and shape of blocks. -If the land covered, by such pre-emptive right shall be included ) ivithin the limits of a run held by license under i clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof in paying i rent for the same may take credit for the amount paid < Dy him in respect of lands covered by such pre-emp-;ive right. '■■■';'.".' 68. Holders of pasturage licenses . without preimptive right shall be entitled to hold such licenses or :o have them renewed upon.the terms of their contract with the Canterbury Association or the Crown, is the case may be; but if any person holding a t icense under the Canterbury Association or the 1 3rown shall voluntarily resign the same, he shall be ] mtitled to receive a license under these Regulations, t md shall from the date of such exchange hold his run it the rate and on the conditions'specified in these Regulations. : 69. If any person, exchanging his license shall for i my period included in the new license have paid rent it a higher rate than "would be payable under such icense, such overpayment shall be adjusted atthe nest payment of rent. 70. In the event ot improvementshavingbeen ef- ] fected by the licensee of a run on any land which ' shall bo reserved by the General Government or by ' the Provincial Government under these Regulation^, * the , licenseee shall receive payment of the ' value of such improvements, such value to be de- ' sided by arbitration under direction of the Waste ' Lands Board, and to be paid by the Treasurer of the ' Waste Lands Board out of the land fund. 71. All-payments on account of pasturage runs ( shall in future he made on or before the first day o ( May, in accordance with clause 51, at "the Land Office, ' fit. Christchurch, and the Waste Lands Board shall 1 sit at that place for the Treasurer to receive the \ same. ....... i 72 AH. payments to be made on account of pastur- ■ ago runs before the first day of May next ensuing ' shall be made for the portion of the year only which , shall elapse between such day of payment and the '■ said first day of May. : . ; ■ 73. In calculating the amount of the license fee and the stock required to be on the run , the year, com-, mencing on the said first day of May shall be deemed to be the same year as that for which such part payment shall have been made.' ■'.._■ ' ■ 74. Notwithstanding anything contained in these j regulations, it shall bo lawful for the Governor, upon i the recommendation oi the Superintendent.and Pro- ] vineiid Caunil, at any time, and from time to time, be ] proclamation in the Govemmmit Gazette of the 's Province, to reserve for the puvposes hereinafter ] mentioned any lands within the Province, adjacent to i or in the neighbourhood of any town, now or which may hereafter be formed, and to declare that on arid from a day to be named in such proclamation all depasturing licenses issued under these regulations, in respect of such, reserved lands, shall cease and be of no eflect; on and. from which day, all such licenses ] 3hall, as respects such lands, cease,aud be of no eflect i iccordirigly.' - And it shall be lawful for the Governor s it any time, hereafter, by regulations to be issued in 1 that behalf, according to the provisions of the Waste 1 Lands Act, upon the recommendation-of the Super- 1 intendenfc and Provincial Council, to regulate the i iccupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within ( such reserved districts. . ■ .. - | timber. ■; | 75. If any tract of land shall have been" reserved for ' the sale of the timber thereon, such timber may be J sold by public auction at an upset price and subject '' to conditions to be fixed by the Superintendent, and * the purchaser shall agree to remove the same within i pertain time; and all the timber not removed within 1 such time may be again pu,tupto public auction. : ' 76.'N0 person shall, without a license, cut or re-" , move any timber from any Waste Lands of the Crown [oxeept timber which he shall have purchased under ' the last clause); and any persons so cutting or removing timber shall be liable to, pay the cost of such license for one year together with the costs of recovering the amount of the same. :.'... /_■ • 77. • Eveiy -li6ense for cutting or removing timber 3hall beissued for one month, or for one year, at the request of the person applying &p the same; and a fee of 10s. shall* be paid.upon every monthly license, : md of £5 upon every yearly license. ; '~..-- -78. A license shall entitle no .one but the person named, therein to cut down standing timber, but it i will authorise.him to employ any number ofpei-sons, '* luring the term of the license, to saw, split, or remove s [he timber so cut; and such license shall not be < Iransferable. . ' s 79. A license to cut timber shall extend only to the iistrict named therein. 80. If any person duly licensed shall have' established i i saw-pit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other f persqii shall cut timber within 50 yards of such pit s ivitho'ut consent of the person first occupying such j saw-pit; provided that if the person establishing such r pit shall not use the same, and shall not cut timber * within such distance as aforesaid from the pit for 28 t consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any other holder of a license to enter thereupon, and to cut timber as though such pit had not been established. s 81. If any person shall, for the purpose of removing i timber, have ma.de a road upon land being the Waste j Lands of the Crown aud not being a highway, it shall c not he lawful for any other person to use the same t without the permission qf the person making the same t first obtained; provided' that if such road shall not , be used at any time" for 90 consecutive da.-s, it shall , be lawful for any holder of a license at any time there- f alter to use the .same. ' 1 82. If any person holding a timber license shall be ] proved", before the Waste Lands Board to have 1 Difended against any regulations, herein contained re- i spocting timber, or to have wilfully or negligently in- £ urcd or destroyed by fire or otherwise any timber be- ( longing to the Crown, such license shall be, and shall be immediately declared to be forfeited, and it shall be t at the discretion of the Board to refuse to issue another < timber license tp the same person. - < SCHEDULES. . . I Schedule A. i Province )' " ' i of \ ' " ■ -- Canterbury. J - LICENSE TO OCCUPT TOWHi LANDS. Whereas of hath been duly deared the purchaser for the sum d- *- pounds, sliillings, and . pence, of the section of the Waste Lands of the Crown hereinafter,,described land hath this day paid to . . the Treasurer of the Wastelands Board of the 'Province, of Canterbury^ (Jie said sum of ■ pounds, , shillings, and '.' " ■' -pence, the receipt whereof is hereby acknow.ledgwt, N»w -»«•▼ AM Kin ah» nut*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 149, 8 May 1862, Page 7
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