Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 10

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✨ Goldfields agricultural lease regulations

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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
Published by Authority.

All Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XVI. NELSON, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1868. No. 10.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor OSWALD CURTIS, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, by the thirty-ninth section of "The Goldfields Act, 1866," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make regulations prescribing the mode in which applications may be made for LEASES OF LAND FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES, and such regulations from time to time to amend, alter, and revoke: And whereas by warrant under the hand of his Excellency the Governor, bearing date the 27th day of April, 1867, the powers vested in the Governor by the said 39th Section, were delegated to me as Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, to have, hold, and exercise, within the said Province, so long as I shall continue and remain Superintendent thereof: Now, therefore, I, Oswald Curtis, Superintendent of the said Province of Nelson, in exercise of the powers and authority in me vested as aforesaid, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the mode in which applications may be made for LEASES OF LAND FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES within the Goldfields, in the Province of Nelson. And I do hereby revoke all former regulations published under the authority of the said 39th Section of "The Goldfields Act, 1866," in so far as the same apply to applications for AGRICULTURAL LEASES and declare the same to be null and void, and have no force or effect after this date:—

REGULATIONS.

Mode of Application.

Every application for an agricultural lease must be made in the form of the first Schedule hereto, or to the like effect, to the Warden of the district wherein the land is situate; and copies of such application must be posted and maintained by the applicant for a period of fourteen (14) days, on boards standing not less than three (3) feet above the surface of the ground, and erected, one at each corner of the land so applied for.

Deposit to be paid by Applicant.

Before any such application shall be received by the Warden, the applicant must pay to a Receiver of Gold Revenue, the sum of ten pounds (£10) as a deposit, and every

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