NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.
Published by Authority.

All Public 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.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. I. AUCKLAND, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1848. No. 19.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, August 7th, 1848.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has directed the publication of the following Regulations relating to the occupation of Crown Lands for the Depasturing of Cattle, and for Cutting Timber.

By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

DEPASTURING LICENSES.

EVERY person depasturing cattle on any waste land of the Crown shall make or cause to be made to, and deposited with the Commissioner of Crown Lands in the month of September in each year, commencing in September, 1848,— A return, according to the form contained in the Schedule A. hereunto annexed, of all such cattle so depastured by him on the first day of the said month of September.

2. There shall be paid and levied in advance, in each and every year, upon, for, and in respect of all cattle depastured or kept upon any waste lands of the crown the following assessment.

For every head of great cattle.... eightpence.
For every head of small cattle.... one penny.

3. These yearly assessments shall be paid by the person depasturing stock to the Colonial Treasurer, on or before the first day of December in every year for the year commencing on the first day of January then next ensuing, the first payment thereof to be made upon the first day of December, 1848.

4. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall upon the first day of October in every year, commencing on the first day of October, 1848, make an assessment of cattle depastured on Crown lands, and shall make a report thereof to the Colonial Treasurer in the form, and containing the several particulars set forth in the Schedule B. hereunto annexed, according to which report the respective yearly assessments shall be payable, and be paid to the Colonial Treasurer on or before the first day of December in each year.

5. The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall publish yearly, in the GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, on or before the first day of November, a list of the persons chargeable with the payment of the yearly assessment, and of the amount payable by each, together with a notice warning them that such assessment must be paid on or before the first day of December.

6. Upon such assessment being paid to the Colonial Treasurer, he shall thereupon issue a license authorising the Stock-holder who has paid his assessment to depasture cattle upon the waste lands of the Crown during the ensuing year, commencing upon the 1st day of January then next ensuing.

7. For every license for a defined run, the sum of Five pounds shall be paid.

8. For every license to depasture on common lands, 10s. 6d. shall be paid.

9. If such assessment be not paid on or before the day named, the Government will be at liberty to offer the run of the party who has neglected to make such payment to public competition at Public Auction.