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Otago Witness, Issue 360, 23 October 1858, Page 8

NOTICE. IT is the intention of the Otago Government to despatch to Invercargill, on or about the Ist of November next, a party of workmen with their families, under an Overlooker selected by the Civil Engineer, to proceed with the Main Road from Invercargill to Waiopai, about 6i miles, and requiring skilful construction. On this occasion persons engaged for regular service by settlers in that part of the country will be conveyed with their families to Invercargill free of charge. Tenders for the above passages at per head, per adult, will be received at this office till the end of October. By order of the Superintendent, JOHN LOGAN, Clerk to Superintendent. Superintendent's Office, Dunedin, 30th September, 1858. LOCAL MUNICIPAL ESTATE. RULES AND REGULATIONS For the Management by the Dunedin Town Board of the Lands reserved for purposes of public utility, within the Town of Dunedin, by the Local Municipal Estate Ordinance, No. 23, 1857. 1. nnHAT the Lands shall be let for the folJ- lowing periods, \iz. : — Town Lands, not exceeding 14 years. Suburban and Rural Lands, not exceeding 21 years. 2. Town sections may, at the discretion of the Board, be sub-divided and let in minor allotments. 3. All npplications for Leases of the said Lands shall be made in wilting, and directed to the Clerk to the Board. 4. A list of all such applications shall from lime to time be advertised in the public newspaper? of the Province, and a day appointed by said advertisement for considering and deciding upon such applications, the day so fixed being not less than one calendar month after the publication of such notice. 5. Upon receipt of such applications the Bosrd shall, at a meeting specially called for the purpose, fix and determine the upset rent, term, and conditions of Lease of the Lands so applied for. G. In the event of the applicant being then an occupant of the property applied for, or of only a part thereof, by having squatted and erected buildings thereon, the Lease, for the portion so occupied by such buildings, and no more, may either be awarded to such applicant without competition, or, at the option of the Board, the said buildings may be valued by the Board, and the Lease be competed for by the public generally; and in the event of any other than the owner of such buildings obtaining ihe Lease, the successful competitor for the Lease shall bpcome bound and obliged, previous to obtaining possession of the premises, to pay to the owner of such buildings, at a period to be fixed by the Board, the amount at which the same shall be so valued. 7. In the event of the applicant not being an occupant as aforesaid, then and in that case the Lease, at the upset rent and on the terms and conditions so fixed and determined, shall be open to public competition; and if the applicant offers the upset rent, and there be no further offers, he shall be the tenant : but if there be further offers, the highest offerer shall be entitled to the Lease. 8. If any person so oecupjing shall neglect or fail to make application for a Lpase of the Land so occupied by him, within one calendar month after the date of publication of the Notice that such Lands are open for application, all preferable right in favour of that person will be, from that peiiod, forfeited, and the Lands shall be advertised in the newspapers of the Province as open to any one for Lease. 9. All applications for Leases shall be decided upon by the Board at Meetings open to the •public, and in cases of competition the same shall take place at such Meeting, and shall be conducted by a person to be appointed by the Board. 10. All Leases shall commence at and from the date of such last mentioned Meeting, and the various obligations of the Lessors and Lessees shall immediately thereafter become binding on both parties by a memorandum of the same, signed by the Chairman of the Meeting and by the Lessee, and the Lease, to be prepared wilh all convenient speed thereafter, shall be at their joint expense. 11. Before granting a Lease to any present occupant, the amount to be fixed by the Board as arrears of rent for the period of such occupancy shall be first paid to the Board, and in default of such payment within one calendar month from the date of awarding such Lease, the said Lands shall be open to applicants generally, and be dealt with as if they were not ■o occupied. 12. Certain Conditions of Lease for the ! various descriptions of property shall be agreed j upon and adopted by the Board, and all Leases shall contain these Conditions, and be prepared by a practising barrister or solicitor, to be isamed by the Board. j 13. All moneys arising from the letting of the said Lands or otherwise shall be exclusively devoted by the Board to the purposes of watching, lighting, protection from fire, supplying with water, nnd improvement of the sanitary condition of tho town of Dunedin, and for a public clock. By order, MALCOLM GRAHAM, Clerk to the Board. ]