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or otherwise improved within twelve months
from the date of any such certificate or lease;
or if at any time during the currency of the
lease the land shall be neglected for a period
of six months.

Transfer.

14. Agricultural leases will not be trans-
    ferable without the special sanction and
    authority of the Superintendent and for
    every such transfer a fee or fine of one
    pound (£1) will be charged; and no such
    transfer will be sanctioned in any case
    unless and until the conditions with respect
    to improvement shall have been duly
    complied with by the original applicant, and
    all rents due shall have been fully paid.

Rent.

15. The rent charged shall be at the rate
    of two-shillings and sixpence (2s. 6d.) per
    acre, payable half yearly in advance from
    the date of the certificate or lease, as the
    case may be, and every fractional part of an
    acre will be considered as an acre and
    charged accordingly.

Survey Fees.

16. The fees charged for survey shall be
    as follows:—
    For an ordinary survey, when the
    area does not exceed ten (10)
    acres, three pounds (£3).
    For any larger area, three pounds, (£3)
    and an extra two shillings (2s.)
    for every acre in excess of ten
    acres.

Land may be taken for roads.

17. The Superintendent reserves the right
    to survey through any land held under an
    agricultural lease, such roads as may be
    deemed essential for public convenience,
    and to throw them open to public traffic,
    subject to the allowance of valuation for
    improvements, and for any standing and
    growing crops which may be in or upon
    such line of road only at the period when
    possession thereof is taken by the Superin-
    tendent.

Conditions of entry to search for gold, &c.

18. The Superintendent reserves the right
    of free entry to any land so leased as aforesaid
    for the purpose of searching for gold, or for
    any other metal or mineral, and of determin-
    ing any lease when such gold, metals, or
    minerals, shall have been discovered therein;
    and also of granting permission to prospect,
    without compensation, upon any unimproved
    land, subject to such regulations as the
    Superintendent may hereafter think fit to
    make, upon any application for such
    permission being made to him.

S C H E D U L E S.

First Schedule.

Notice.

No.
(Place and Date.)

To Warden

I hereby apply for a lease of land for
agricultural purposes situate at [here state
the locality] and comprising
acres or thereabouts: and I deposit herewith
the Gold Receivers receipt for the sum of ten
pounds (£10), and agree to pay any further
costs and expenses which may be incurred in
accordance with the Agricultural Leases
Regulations made under "The Goldfields
Act, 1866."

Signature (name in full and address).

Second Schedule.

Agricultural Lease Deposit Receipt

District of
Date,

No. of application
Received from the
deposit of ten pounds (£10) pursuant to the
"Agricultural Leases Regulation" made
under "The Goldfields Act, 1866."

Receiver of Gold Revenue.

Given under my hand, and issued under
the Public Seal of the Province of
Nelson, this Sixteenth day of
March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.

OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent.

Attested—
ALFRED GREENFIELD,
Provincial Secretary.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government, Nelson, by CHARLES ELLIOTT, Trafalgar-street
Nelson, Printer for the time being to the said Government.