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the run will be declared by the Commissioner open to be applied for by any other person.

2. If at any time during the currency of such occupation license, the land comprised therein, or any part thereof, shall become included within the boundaries of any reserve, then the said occupation license shall cease and determine as to the land included within such boundaries, from and after the day on which it shall be notified that such reserve has been made.

3. If at any time during the currency of such occupation license, the land comprised therein, or any part thereof, shall be sold by or on behalf of the Crown, whether upon credit or otherwise, in that case also the said license shall cease and determine over so much of the land as shall have been sold, from and after three months' notice of such sale in the said Government Gazette.

4. A run shall be computed upon the acreage, according to the following uniform rates, that is to say:—for the first seven years of occupation, at the rate of one halfpenny per acre per annum; for the remaining seven years of occupation, at the rate of one penny per acre per annum.

5. All rents shall become due on the first day of January in each year, and shall be payable in the Commissioner during the month of January in each year: provided that for licenses issued after the 30th June in any year, only half-a-year's rent shall be chargeable until the next ensuing month of January.

6. If any arrears of rent shall remain unsettled for a period of three months, the said license shall cease and determine, and the Commissioner is thereupon required to notify in the said Government Gazette, and some newspaper published within the province, for the forfeiture of such license, and to let the run to which it relates by public auction, whereof one month's notice shall be given, to the highest bidder, for a term of fourteen years, subject to the conditions of these regulations: provided always that the period of three months above referred to may be extended to six months, in case of the death of the run-holder.

7. Twelve months after the issue of a license, the holder thereof shall be required to place on the run at least one breeding ewe for every 20 acres, or else one cow for every 120 acres; and to maintain at least that number of breeding stock upon the run during the whole period of his occupancy. Should the holder of a license not comply with this condition, his deposit shall be absolutely forfeited, and the run shall be let as provided in the foregoing clause.

8. In the event of any run, in respect of which such deposit has been made, not being afterwards awarded to the depositor by the Commissioner, the amount so deposited shall be returned immediately after the decision.

9. The beneficial interest in any occupation license may be at any time transferred by the licensed holder. In order to render such transfer valid, it shall be necessary that all the conditions upon which the original license was granted shall have been complied with as to payment of rent, or otherwise, and that notice shall be given to the Commissioner within one month of the transfer having been effected.

10. From and after the time when this Act shall come into operation, no further licenses shall be issued under the Regulations heretofore in force; but all persons holding licenses under any such Regulations may, at their option, expressed in writing to the Commissioner within twelve months after the passing of this Act, have licenses issued under this Act, to date from the period of their exercising such option.

GENERAL.

91. All annual licenses shall be drawn so as to expire simultaneously on the last day of each year.

92. Licenses applied for after the 1st June in each year, will only be chargeable with half of the usual fee.

93. No license will preclude the Government from including within a hundred, or selling, upon credit or otherwise, or will in any way affect the rights of the Crown to land occupied in virtue of such licenses.

UNLAWFUL OCCUPATION OF CROWN LANDS.

95. If any person shall occupy any waste lands of the Crown, either by residing or by erecting any hut or building thereon, or by clearing enclosing, or cultivating any part thereof, or shall fell, remove, or sell the timber growing or being on any such land, without in either case having a lease or license for such purposes respectively, every such person shall, on conviction for any of the offences hereinbefore mentioned, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty pounds, to be recovered in a summary way: Provided that no person shall be convicted of any of the offences aforesaid except on the information or complaint.