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Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2101, 22 July 1875, Page 2

Government Notices. REGULATIONS FOR GRANTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES. Superintendent's Office,. Auckland, 15 th July, 1875. H l3 Honor the Superintendent liasbeen pleased to make the following Regulations for the granting of Agricultural Leases within the Ohinemuri Goldfield. i YINCENT E, RICE, ' For the Provincial Secretary, /. j ? ; REGULATIONS - For granting Agricultural Leases within ; the Ohinemuri Goldfield 1 under'the ' terms of Clause 6of the D,ecd for the acquisition of that Block concluded i Tvith the. ;Natiyes.ruponthe 18th , February', 1875, which Regulations j are to be brought'beforeJho General I Assembly of New Zealand, ■ Applications.}' . , 1, On and after the 3rd day of August next blocks of lands within the Ohinemuri Goldfield. shall be proclaimed open for lease, and. every person desirous of obtaining .a lease of 'any portion thereof, shaU previous to the day so fixed lodge with -the'Warden'an application for such land in form or to the effect of Schedule A. ; ' ;;; j ry, ;; T i 2. Every such application as aforesaid shal be made daring office hours (viz., 10 a',in, to i p.m.), and shall be accompanied by a sketch plan of.the land so applied for, which .shall, so,I far as practicable, exhibit to the satisfaction of 'the Warden the boundaries of the land in question, and its estimated acreage, : Deposit to be made. . 1 3. Before lodging such application and Bketch p'an as aforesaid, the applicant, shall deposit ithe sum of (£5) live pounds sterling with-the Receiver'of Gold Revenue, who thall give a receipt in duplicate, and no application shall be entertained unless one of such duplicate receipts shall bo annexed to the application; the amount of such deposit, in the event of the issue of the lease, to be placed to the credit of the applicant towards the payment of the expense of survey and the cost of the preparation of the lease. Applications to be recorded, 4. Every application as aforesaid shall bo recorded in a book to.be kept for that purpose, and the date, day, and hour of the,receipt of ; Buch application, together with the name of the applicant and the area and situation of the land applied for, shall be dulj minuted therein. Such book shall be open to the public for inspection during office hours, and any per;on may take a copy of any minute entered therein. Term and area, r ,\ 'm ; . 6. No application shall be received for any such lease of less than 10 acres or more than 50 acres, and no lease shall he granted for a longer term than 21 years. ■{ . ' Application not to be opened until day appointed, G." 'Jbe applicatiocs so received: shall not be opened until noon of the first day appointed, in manner aforesaid for the lease of .such land, on which day rio further applications shall be receivable. On day appointed applications io be . opened, 7. The Warden shall, on the day so appointed, and in tho presence of such of the applicants or their agents as - may attend for that purpose, proved to open all such applications so received, Jf only one application, applicant to be the purchaser, 8. Where it shall appear that but one application has, in manner' aforesaid, been received for any one piece of land, the person making such application shall be deemed to be entitled to have the same awarded to him, If two or more applicants, priority of choke to be decided by lot, 9. But if at any time two or more applications be simultaneously received for one and the same piece of land, or any part thereof, the Warden shall at once, in the presence of the applicants, or of the persons representing such applications, decide by lot the priority of choice. After day fixed unappropriated lands open for lease, 10. After the day fixed for opening the applications sent in as aforesaid all the unappropriated portions of such lands shall be open for lease to the first applicint for the same, and in all applications for leases made after the day fixed as aforesaid, that application which shall be' first lodged with the Warden shall he deemed to be the prior application, and shall entitle the person in whose fivotir it is made to the right of priority of selection, Manner of making application after day ■ fixed, 11. Every such application must be made iu manner prescribed by sections 1, 2, and 3 of these Regulations. Unsuccessful applicant entitled'to return of deposit, 12. In the event of any land, in respect of which a deposit has been paid, hot being afterwards awarded to the depositor by tho Warden the amount so 'deposited will be returned to him. Figure of selection to be rectangular. 13. Every area of land applied for must, so far as the features of the country will permit, be of a rectangular form, and when fronting on. a road, river, lake, or coast be, where practicable, of a depth not less than three times the length of its frontage, but no selection must be made so as to monopolise the wood or water or any landing place in any particular locality; and further, no selection Bhall be permitted to bo made in such a manner as to injuriosly. interfere with the disposition of the remainder of any land in the vicinity of any such selections, Provided always that it shall not be competent fcr any person to hold by virtue of two or moro distinct selections any land dealt with under these Regulations. Applicant to survey, ' li. Every applicant Bhall 'hare the land selected by him surveyed at his own expense by a duly-authorised Surveyor, and shall deliver or ciuse to be delivered at the Warden's office, within one month from the dato whereon his application was acceded to, a correct plan of the same certified by such Surveyor, , Sou) lease to .be executed, 15. As soon as conveniently may be after the deposit of the survey plan as aforesaid, a lease in due form executed on behalf of h'er Majesty by tho Superintendent shall be issued to the applicant upon his executing a counterpart thereof, and raying for such lease the sum of thirty shillings. Lease io be forfeited if not emitted * within one month, ■ 16. If any applicant shall fail to sign and execute the counterpart of his lease for the space of one calendar month after notice shall have been given that the S3me is ready fcr signature, he shall forfeit his right to such lease. Any such notice may be delivered persoaally or sent by post, addressed to the place of abode of the applicant,