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Otago Daily Times, Issue 181, 26 June 1862, Page 7

43. ffany person shall contract with the Superintendent to make and complete, within a given time, any public road, bridge, or drain, or any part of any such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing such security as the Superintendent may require for the due completion of such contract, nnd shall select such portion of rural land as he shall be Avilling to accept by Avay of payment or compensation, or by way of part payment or compensation foi; such work; it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve such portion of land from public sale for such given time but no longer; and 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 sterling which the Superintendent shall certify to the Waste Lands Board to be the bond fide value'of the 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 ProA'ince, as .directed in clause 19 of these Regulations. No such reservation shall continue in force for a . longer period than twelve calendar months from the date on which it shall have been made. No land included in a Pasturage License Avith Preemptive Right shall, as against the holder of such Pre-emptive Right, be so reserved or granted until he shall have been alloAved the option of purchasing such land in the manner prescribed in clauses 64 and 66 to these Regulations. No greater "amount of land than 250 acres shall under the proA'isions of this clause be reserved or granted to any person under any such contract, unless 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, bo reserved or granted under the provisions of' this clause, Avithout the special sanction of the Provincial Council. Provided always that every parcel of laud so granted : shall be subjected to the same jonditions as to form and frontage as any rural lana so under these Regulations; provided also tha 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, the person entitled may pay the balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants for the purchase of rural lands under these Regulations. IX.—NAVAL AND MILITARY BOUNTIES. 44. Whereas the Superintendent and the Provincial Council and other the inhabitants of Canterbury 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 Avounds or loss of health incurred in the present Avar AA-ith Russia, and also for the maintenance of the widows of those who may be killed in such war:— Any such person or v.-idoAv shn.ll, upon application to the .Waste Lands Board, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence from the proper authorities as to such discharge or-death, be entitled to receive a free grant not exceeding 30 acres of the Waste Lands within this Province, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage contained in these Regulations; proA-ided always that such application shall be made to the Waste Lands Board by such person or vvidow in person within three years after such discharge or death. X. —PASTURAGE. 45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for public purposes as herein provided, the Waste Lands may be occupied for pasturage purposes, by persons holding licenses from the Waste Lands Board to occupy the same. 46. Any person applying for a pasturage license shall state to the Commissioners what are the boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and the number and description of the stock which he possesses, or Avill undertake to place upon the run Avithin twelve months from the date of the license.

47. The extent of run alloAved to eacii applicant shall be at the rate of 120 acres to every head of great cattle, and 20 aoi-03 to every head of small cattle. The Avords " great cattle" shall be construed to mean horned cattle, horses, males, and asses, male and female, with their offspring above six months of age; aud the words "small cattle" shall be construed to mean sheep, male and female, -with their weaned offspring. 48. Ev-ery pasturage run shall be in one block, and, as far as circumstances 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 1000 acres, twenty shillings for eyery hundred acres; for every run containing 1000 acres, and not less than 5000 aci 23, two-pence per acre for the first thousand and one penny per acre for every acre in addition/ For evevv run containiner 5000 acres or upwards, one farthing per acre for the first and second years, one half-penny per acre for the third and fourth years, three-farthings per acre for the fifth and every subsequent year; provided that the first year shall be taken to' be the time elapsing from the date of the original license to the first day of May next folloAving. 50. No pasturage license shall be granted for a less annual fee than £2 10s. 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 auy sitting day of the Board, between the 20th day- of April and the first day of May, inclusive; and every pasturage license not renewed by payment of the required fee, on or before the first day of May, shall, unless gpod cause to the contrary be shown to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board, be considered as abandoned. 52. Every pasturage license shall Je in the form set forth in the Schedule C to the Waste Lands Regulations, and shall 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 duly given to the Waste Lands Board, and not before. A pasturage license shall.entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the land specified 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 bo altered until the Ist May, 1870. Such license shall give no right to the soil or to the timber, and shall immediately determine over any land which may be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations. A reasonable right of way shall be allowed through all pasturage runs. 53. It at any time during the first four years after the issue of the first license the quantity of stock for 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 to be forfeited; provided always that Avith regard to runs granted prior to the issue of these Regulations such first period of four years shall commence from the date on wliich these Regulations shallcome 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 ease' n 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 period, placing his stock on his 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. 55. Every holder of a license shall, at any time, upon a Avritten order from the Waste Lands Board to that effect, make a true and complete return of all thestoek on his run; and if he shall Avilfully and knowingly make any false return, the Waste Lands Board shall immediately declare his license to be forfeited. 56. Every run or portion thereof which shall have been forfeited, as aboA-"e provided, shall be put up by the Waste Lands Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the GoA'emment Gazette, and one or more neAvspapers 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 forfefted, within"6o 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 Avill be required to deposit with the Treasurer the sum of ten shillings for every hundred acres included in the license, which will be returned without interest as soon as he shall have fulfilled the conditions in respect to stocking thp run Avithin the prescribed period; but if such' conditions be not fulfilled such de- . ; posits shali be forfeited ! 53. The above rules in respect to stocking a run, and to the lodgment of the money Avith the Treasurer, shall not apply to ?-uns containing less than 5000 acres. 59. EA-ery holder of a license may be required at any time to pay for the actual cost of the survey of liis run at a rate not exceedingSOs. for every thousand acres.

60. Every 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: —Por a run of not less hah 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, pver a block of land comprising and circumiacent to his homestead to the extent of 5 per cent of the acreage of the run. For a run of 5,000 acres andupAvards, over 250 acres of land comprising and circumjacent to his homestead or principal station. And for all runs, OA-er 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 circumiacent to tbe lands so occupied or unproved,