3.—Management of Crown Lands within the limits of a Hundred.

19. Right of Pasture to be limited to Persons holding a Licence.
20. A Licence to be granted to any Occupant.
21. Licence to be in force for one Year.
22. Fee to be paid for Licence.
23. List of Licensed Persons to be published in the Government Gazette.
24. Persons comprised in such List to have exclusive Right of Pasture.
25. And to have power of electing Wardens.
26. Commissioners to preside at elections.
27. And to have a casting vote.
28. Vacancies, how supplied.
29. Wardens to have power to apportion, &c.
30. Cattle to be depastured.
31. Regulations made by Wardens to be published.
32. Failing an apportionment by Wardens, Commissioner to have power.
33. Power to Wardens to make Bye Laws.
34. And to levy an Assessment.
35. And to distrain for same.
36. Amount of Licence Fee to be paid over to Wardens.
37. Accounts to be kept by Wardens.
38. Penalty on unlicensed Persons depasturing Cattle, &c.
39. Power to Wardens to Impound Cattle trespassing.

4.—Unlawful occupation of Crown Lands.

39. Persons occupying Crown Lands without Licence liable to Penalty.
40. Penalty for second offence.
41. Exception.
42. Rights of Crown saved.
43. Cattle Trespassing may be impounded.
44. Onus Probandi.
45. Costs of Suit.
46. Interpretation.
47. Commencement of Ordinance.

Schedules A. B, C. D.

Regulations to be established under the 3rd clause of the foregoing Ordinance, with respect to land not included in proclaimed Hundreds.

For every licence for a defined run the sum of Five Pounds shall be paid annually.

All persons requiring unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands, as defined runs for the purpose of depasturing Cattle, shall lodge a description of such land with the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Such descriptions shall specify the boundaries and other particulars connected with the run, according to Schedule A. hereunto annexed.

Such boundaries of land so described as are not marked by natural boundaries, such as streams, &c., shall be marked by the occupants thereof, by lines of marked trees, by posts placed at intervals, or by some other method which will render them easily discernible.

Any person who shall have a run claimed by him, or any part thereof, unoccupied by Stock for months shall be considered as having abandoned such run, or part thereof, which shall thereupon be given into the occupation of the first applicant for it.

It shall be in the power of the Commissioner of Crown Lands at any time to make such alterations in the boundaries of runs as he may upon inquiry judge to be just and expedient.

Every proper facility will be afforded by the Government to persons desirous of purchasing homesteads on their runs, but it will not undertake to survey and offer for sale any smaller blocks than fifty acres of land.

No person shall be entitled to dispute the claim of another person to any run described according to these regulations, unless the matter be brought before the Commissioner of Crown Lands within three months after the publication in the Government Gazette of the name of the person claiming the run, and of the description of the run.

All licences for defined runs will be for years.

Licences excepting those to be signed and issued by the Colonial Treasurer upon payment of the proper fees.

No licence will preclude the Government from including within a hundred or selling the land leased or any part thereof, or will in any way affect the rights of the Crown to land occupied in virtue of such licences.

All disputes between holders of licences, having reference to depasturing stock or cutting timber, shall be heard and decided by the Commissioner of Crown Lands who is authorized by the Crown Lands Ordinance to charge for his discretion in the matter a fee of Five Pounds.

No licences for depasturing purposes can be transferred from one person to another without the authority of the Government being previously obtained through the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Total amount of Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 5th day of April, 1851:—

Amount of Notes in circulation on the 5th day of April, 1851, being the close of the preceding four weeks, viz.:—

£5 and upwards .......................... £700
Under £5 .............................. 3855

Total .............................. £4555

Total amount of Coin held by the same Office on the same day:—

Gold .............................. £1348
Silver .............................. 1207

Total .............................. £2555