SCHEDULE C.

LICENCE TO DEPASTURE SHEEP.

WHEREAS ____ of ____ hath been duly declared to be entitled to a licence to depasture stock upon the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Canterbury, upon the terms and upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned. Now therefore I in pursuance of the powers vested in me as Commissioner of Crown Lands, for the said Province do hereby grant to the said ____ the exclusive licence, from and after the date hereof, until the year 1870 inclusive, to depasture stock upon the land situate and bounded, as hereinafter described, that is to say, and containing ____ acres or thereabouts. Subject nevertheless to all the provisions and conditions contained in the "Waste Lands regulations" now in force within the Province of Canterbury.

Given under my hand in the Commissioner’s Court at ____ this ____ day of ____ 185_.

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Witness
Clerk to Commissioner.

ENDORSEMENT.

I, the within-named ____ for valuable consideration to me paid by ____ of ____ do hereby transfer to the said ____ the within written pasturage Licence, and all my estate and interest therein.

Witness my hand this ____ day of ____ 185_.

Witness ____

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, November 11, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publication for general information of the following Draft of an Ordinance to be submitted to the Provincial Council for their adoption.

H. G. GOULD,
Provincial Secretary.

Preamble.—Whereas, in accordance with the original plan under which the settlement of Canterbury was founded in New Zealand, and with various terms of purchase made and issued by the Canterbury Association, in pursuance of the powers vested in them by Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the 13th day of Nov. 1847, and by a certain act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the session holden in the 13th and 14th years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled an act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain lands in New Zealand, the purchasers of land within the said settlement of Canterbury, did pay over and above the sums paid to the Crown for the acquisition of the land, certain other sums by way of special contribution, according to a rate set forth in the said terms of purchase to be expended in the promotion of emigration to the said settlement, and in the execution of various works of public utility therein:

And whereas it is expedient that those who shall become purchasers of land within the said district, and within the other parts of the Province of Canterbury, under any terms of purchase to be made and issued for the said Province under the authority of a certain act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the second session of the same, entituled the Waste Lands’ Act, 1854, should in like manner contribute certain sums of money by way of special contribution or rate upon the lands so to be purchased by them, to be expended in like objects of public utility to the said Province:

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows.

1. A Rate to be levied on all lands purchased under future Regulations.—Upon all lands within the Province of Canterbury purchased from the Crown under any Regulations for the disposal of the Waste Lands within the said Province issued in pursuance of the provisions of the said recited Act of the General Assembly, there shall be charged and levied every year for five years a rate of ten shillings in respect of every acre of land so purchased.

2. The Rate to be payable on the first day of May.—The said rate shall become payable on the first day of May in each year, commencing on the first day of May which shall fall next after the purchase of the land shall have been made; provided that if the first day of May shall fall on a Sunday, the said rate shall be paid on the Monday following: for the purpose of this Ordinance the purchase of the land shall be deemed to have been made upon the date of any license from the Government to occupy the said land.

3. Superintendent to appoint District Receivers, &c., to collect the Rate.—For the purpose of collecting the said rate, the Superintendent shall divide the Province of Canterbury into convenient districts, and shall appoint a fit person to be the Receiver of the said rate within each district, and shall appoint a convenient place within each district where the said rate shall be paid; and the Superintendent shall give due public notice in the Government Gazette of the boundaries of all such districts, and of the appointment of all such Receivers and places as aforesaid.

4. Ratepayers to attend at the Receiver’s Office to pay Rate.—Every person who shall...