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Non-commissioned officers, or equivalent to that rank in the sea service £60
Privates, marines, and seamen . . £30
36. Every such money certificate shall at any time be received instead of money in payment, or part-payment, as the case may be, of the purchase money of crown land purchased within the province.

VI.—SCRIP.

37. The scrip issued in satisfaction of claims under land-orders of the New Zealand Company shall be taken in payment for town and suburban land, at the nominal value of such scrip in pounds sterling. In the purchase of any other land one pound in scrip shall represent the selling price of one acre, when such selling price does not exceed twenty shillings, and in other cases shall represent its nominal value of one pound.

VII.—LEASING OR MINERAL LANDS.

38. Any person applying for a lease of land, for the purpose of working minerals, shall be entitled to the same upon the following terms and conditions.

39. The amount of land to be leased shall be determined by the Superintendent, acting with the advice of his Executive Council and the Land Commissioner; in no case to exceed two square miles.

40. The term to be granted shall be any number of years, at the option of the lessee, not exceeding twenty-one.

41. There shall be reserved a royalty or rent of one-fifteenth of the minerals raised.

42. The lease shall contain clauses in the usual form:—

43. For securing the payment of the royalty or rent.

44. For enabling some person on the part of the Government to enter and examine the mine.

45. For securing the regular, proper, and efficient working and working of the minerals.

46. For making void the lease on breach of the stipulations on the part of the lessee therein contained.

47. For delivering up the property at the termination of the lease in good tenantable repair.

48. For enabling the lessee to abandon the working of the minerals whenever he shall find the same unprofitable, and to surrender

49. In the event of simultaneous applications for a lease of the mineral land, the same will be put up to auction, and the upset price for a lease of twenty-one years shall be a rent or royalty of one-fifteenth of the minerals to be raised. All applications made on the same

day shall be deemed simultaneous applications.

44. Every applicant for a mining lease, shall furnish to the Land Commissioner, at the time of making such application, a plan and description of the land applied for, which plan and description shall be made and prepared by a surveyor, to be approved of by the said Commissioner.

45. The land, or any portion thereof, comprised in a mining lease, not exceeding 640 acres in any one block, shall, at the request of the lessee, at any time after the minerals shall have been worked for three years, be put up at an upset price of £1 per acre, subject to the lease thereof already granted.

46. A right-of-way will be reserved to lessees of mineral lands through the adjoining waste lands of the crown, towards the most convenient place of shipment, or otherwise, as may be necessary for conveying away the produce; but such right-of-way will not be exclusively granted to any one lessee.

VIII.—LICENSES TO CUT TIMBER ON CROWN LANDS.

47. The rules and regulations for the issue of timber licenses, made under the Crown Lands Ordinance, No. 1, of Session X., and Crown Lands Amendment Ordinance, No. 10, of Session XI., are hereby confirmed; provided that the land to be comprised in any one license shall in no case exceed ten acres; and provided also that the license may be issued by the Commissioner of Crown Lands in lieu of the Colonial Treasurer, as heretofore required.

IX.—REGULATIONS FOR THE LICENSED OCCUPATION OF PASTURE LANDS IN THE PROVINCE OF NELSON.

1. All persons requiring occupation licenses for unoccupied portions of pasture lands in the Province of Nelson, shall lodge with the Land Commissioner of the district in which such run is situated, a description thereof, in form or to the effect of Schedule A, and shall, at the time of lodging such description, pay to the Commissioner a cash deposit, according to the following scale, viz.:—

£15 for runs described as under 10,000 acres.

£30 for runs described as under 20,000 acres.

£50 for runs described as over 20,000 acres.

2. All applications which shall have been regularly made, and in respect of which the required deposit shall have been paid, shall be immediately filed and registered in the Commissioner's office; and the register of all such applications shall be open to public inspection within office hours.