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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2044, 23 July 1875, Page 3

Government Notices REGULATIONS FOJi GRANTING AGRICULTURAL LEASES. ' Superintendents Ofljcp, - Auckland, 15th July, 1875. |I IS Hooor the Superintendent has been pleased to "make the following Regulations'for the granting .'of-Agricultural Leases within the Ohinemuri Goldfield. VINCENT ET KICK, For the Provincial (Secretary. BEGULATION3 For granting Agricultural Leases within - the Obinemuri Goldfield under the terms of Clause 5 of the Deed for theacquisition of that Block concluded with the Natives upon the ..18th, February, 1875, which Eeeu'alions are to be brought beforo ihe General Assembly of-K ew Zealand. Applications. ' 1. Cn and after the 3rd day of August next blocks of lauds within the Ohinemuri Goldfield shall be .proclaimed open for lease, and every perron "desirous of obtaining a lease of any portion thereof, shall previous to the day so fixed lodge with the Warden an application for such land in form or to the effect of Fehedule.fi. , .... 2. Every such application as aforesaid shal be made during office hours (viz, 10 a.m. to 4 p m ), and shall be accompanied by a sketch plan of the land so applied for," which shall, so far as practicable, exhibit to the satisfaction of the .Warden the boundaries of the land in question, and its estimated acreage. . " Deposit to he made. 3. : Before lodging such application andsketch p^an as afore«aid, the applicant shall deposit the sum of (£5) rive pounds sterling with the Receiver of Gold Revenue," who •*hall give a receipt in duplicate, and no application shall be anterfcained "unless one of such duplicate receipts shall be annexed to the application; the amount of such deposit; in the event cf the issue of the lease, 'to be placed to the credit' of the appli2ant'towards flip payment of the expense of surrey at:d the cu&t of ihe. prepsiraiioa of. the ease. - -. -*■ . - Applications 16 be recorded. ' 4. Every application ;is aforesiid shall be recorded in a book to be Kept for that puipose, ir.d the date,'' fay and hour of the receipt of 3uch appliration, together with, the nan>e of the applicant and the area and situation of the land applied for, shall be dulj minuted therein. ; uch' book shall be open to the public for inspection dining office hours, aud any per on may .take a copy of any minute entered therein. Term and area. 5. No application shall be received for any - such lease of less than 10 acres or more than 50 acres, an-3 no lease shall be granted for a longer term than 21 years. Application not to he opened until day appointed. '■ 6. r' he application 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 no further applications shall be receivable. On day appointed applications to he -opened. 7. The Warden shaU, on the day so appointed," and in ttis presence of such of the applicants or their agents as may attend for that purpose, pro-eed to open all such applications so received. If only one application, applicant to he the purchaser. 8. Where it shall appear that bub 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 tho same awarded to him. If tivo or more applicants, priority of choice to he 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 applicantl3, 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 applicant 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 be deemed to be the prior application, and shall entitle the person in whose favour it is made to the right of priority of selection. Manner of making application after day fixed. Hi Every such application must be made iv manrer prescribed by secticfn3 1, 2, and 3 of these Regulations. Unsticcessful applicant entitled to return of deposit, 12. In the event of any land, in respect of which a deposit has been paid, not beiDg afterwards awarded to the depositor by the Warden the amount so deposited will be returned to him. JFigure of selection to he 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 pace in any particular locality; / and further, no selection shall be permitted to j be made in such a manner as to injuriosly in- ' terfere 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 more distinct selections any land dealt with under these Regulations. Applicant to survey. 14. Evfry applicant shall. have t'ne land selected by him surveyed at his own expense by a duly-autborised Surveyor, and shall deliver or cause to be delivered at the Warden's office, within one month from the date whereon his application was acceded to, a correct plan of the same certified by such Surveyor. Roto 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 en behalf of her Majesty by the Superiniendent shall bo issued to the applicant upon his oxecuting a counteipart thereof, and laying for such lease the sum of thirty shillings.