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Otago Witness, Issue 528, 11 January 1862, Page 8

one farthiuff per acre for the fiisf- and second Years, one hiilf-pcnny per acre for the third and fourth years, tlu-ee-tartlnnps ppi- acre for the fifth and every subsequent year ; pn>\ iiled tint the fiist year shall be tak«n to be the time elapsing from the date of the orHniil license to the fir-.t day of May next follow ing. C 50. No pnsturasrp hVense shall be granted for a less annual fee than £2 1(K 51. The tee shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Waste Land Board every year, in advance; for the first year on the issue ot'fhe license, and for the second and every «übvque.nt j ear on any sitfino- 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 f^ood cause to the contrary be shown to the satisfaction of the W;iste Lands Board, be considered as abandoned. 52. Every pasturage license shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule C to the W aste Lands Regulations, and shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth in such Schedule, and such transfer shall be defined to be romplHe upon notice thereof being duly jjiu'ii to the Waste Lands Board, and not before. A p.isturat>e license shall entitle the holder thereof to the exclusive right of pasturage over the, land specified therein upon the terms alxne stated. Such license shall be renew «1 by endowment from year to year, until the hind specified therein shall be purchased, granted, or reserved under these regulations; and the fee to be paid in respect of such licuise 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 rig-lit of way shall be allowed through all p;isturage runs. 53. If 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 le=s than three times that amount, the Waste Lands Board may declare th«; whole or a portion of such run to be forfeited ; provided always that with regard to runs granted prior to the issue of the.se Regulations such first period of four years <-haU 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 lie 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 mil, 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 on the run at the expiration of such peoiod. 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 the stock on his run j and if ho shall wilfully 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 al»ve provided, shall l>e put up b\ the Waste Lands Board to public auction, after an advertisement in the Government Gazette, and one, or more newspapers of the Province. A license granted after forfeiture shall be deemed to be an originallicense. Upon appeal from any person whose run has been forfeited, within CO days from the date of such forfeiture, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to reserve or I suspend such forfeiture either wholly or in part. 57. Every person taking out a license, for a run which I is not stocked w iil be required to deposit with the Treasurer the sum often shilling for eve,ry hundred acres included in the license, which will be returned without juterast as soon as he shall have fulfilled the conditions in respect to stocking the run within the prescribe! period ; but if such conditions be not fulfilled such deposits shall be forfeited. 58. The alxn c rules in respect to stocking a run, and to the lodgment of deposit money with the Treasurer, shall not appiy to runs containing hfs than 5000 acres. 59. E\ cry holder, 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. CO. Every holder of apa -tin-age icense shall, upon application to the Waste Lands Boaul. be entitled to «'i pre-umptive right over portions of liis run, :is follows:— For a run of not less fhan 1,000 acres and not more than 5,000 acres, over a block of land comprising and circumjacent to liis homestead to the extent of 5 per cent of 1 the acreage of the run. For a run of 5,000 acres and upw ai ds,' o\ er 250 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, cultivation 1 ?, or any such other iinpiwments as shall in the judgment of the Waste Lauds Board be deemed sufficient for the purposes of this clause, together with fifty acres comprising nnd circumjacent to the lands so occupied or improved. (51. The Lieensei shall at the time of his application to the Board give a sufficient description of the lauds over which he claims such pre-emptive risrht, to the satisfaction of the Chief Surveyor. And the .same shall be marked off on the authenticated Maps in the Land Office. 02. The lands included in such pre-emptive right may be of such form as the applicant shall choose ; but any land purchased by him in the exercise ofsu eh liglit shall he subject to the regulations as to form and frontage herein contained. G3. The Waste Lands Board shall not receive nor entertain any application to purchase, from any person other than the ninholder, the afoiv-said block around the homestead or principal station which docs not include the whole of such block. 0"4. The right of pre-emption hereby given shall be exercised within one week for all lands within twenty miles of the Land Office, at Chmtohiirch ; and within one month for all lands at a greater distance' therefrom ; such time being reckoned from the date ofVerviceofa written notice from the Waste Lands Board, setting forth a copy of the application for miv of the lands included in the pre-emptive right. Such notice may be served either personally on the runholder, or by leaving the same at his last-known place of ;ibodo within the Province, or at the principal homestead or station on the run. 05. The applicant for any rural land included in any pre-emptive risrht shall deposit with the Treasurer ot the. Waste Lands Board a sum equal to 4s. per acre, of the purchase money, and the remainder lie shall pay within one week from the date of his application being granted, or forfeit Mich deposit. Such deposß, 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. (iG If the holder of the p'-e-emptive right decide upon purchasing any portion of the land applied Bubo shall forthwith pay to the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board a deposit of 4s. per acre of the purchase money of such portion ; and, if ho shall not within six weeks thereafter have paid the remainder of the purchase money, he shall forfeit such deposit, together with all right or title to the land. If the holder of any pre-emptive right other than those created by clause GO of the Waste Lands Regulations shall neglect or refuse to purchase any portion of the land applied for, such portion shall 'from and immediately after such neglect or refusal be released from all right of pre-emption and open to purchase on the terms of these Regulations, as if the same had not been included in any pre-emptive right. G7. Pasturage Licenses with pre-emptive rit-ht in conned ion with purchased lands, whether under the Canterbury Association or the Crown, shall, from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, be taken and deemed to be pasturage, licenses over the lands included therein, upon the tprms of these Regulations-, with a preemptive right <n or all such land, to he exercised subject to tlitee. Regulation's as regards notice of application, payment of deposit, purchiise money, pi-ice of land, and size, and shape of blocks, j'f the land covered by such pre-emptive right shall be included within the limits of a run held by license under clauses 50 and 53, the holder thereof in paying rent for the same may take credit for the amount paid ny him in respect of lands covered by such pre-emp-tive right. 68. Holders of pasturage licenses without preemptive right shall be entitled to hold such licenses or to have them renewed upon the terms of their contract with the Canterbury Association or the Crown, as the case may be ; but if any person holding a license under the Canterbury Association or the Crown shall voluntarily resign the same, he shall be entitled to receive a license under these Regulations, and shall from the date, of such exchange hold his run at the rate and on the conditions specified in these Regulations. 0!). If any person exchanging his license shall for any period included in the new license have paid rent at a higher rate than would be payable under such license, such o\ erpayment shall be adjusted at the next payment of rent. 70. In the event of improvements having been effected by the licensee of a run on any land which shall be reserved by the General Government or by the Provincial Government under these Regulations, the liceiiseee shall receive payment of the value of such improvements, such value to be decided 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 p;istu rage runs shall in future be made mi or before the first day of May, in accordance with clause 51, nt the Land Office, at ( hmtcliurch, and thu Waste Lands Board shall sit at that place for the Tieasurer to receive the same. 72 All payments to be made on account ot pasturage 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 commencing on the snid 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 regulations, it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon the recommendation|of the Superintendent and Pro