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10. All persons using any portions of the Crown Lands as defined runs for the purpose of depasturing cattle, shall lodge a description of such runs so occupied by him with the Commissioner of Crown Lands within three months after the publication of these regulations.

11. Such description shall specify the boundaries and other particulars connected with the run according to the Schedule hereunto annexed.

12. Such boundaries of runs so described as are not marked by natural boundaries, such as streams, 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.

13. Persons desirous for the future of occupying runs, must in the first place apply to the Surveyor General, and having obtained from him a certificate to the effect, that such land is the property of the Crown, and that no objection exists to their occupation of it, must lodge this certificate with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, who will thereupon notify that the run is claimed by the holder of the certificate. Any person who shall have a run claimed by him, or any part thereof, unoccupied by stock for four 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.

14. 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.

15. 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 enquiry, judge to be just and expedient.

16. The Crown reserves to itself the power of, at any time, disposing by sale of any portion of Crown Land which may be claimed as a run, and held by a licensed occupant.

17. Such sale of a portion of a run will be conducted in accordance with the ordinary rules, regulating the sale of waste lands of the Crown, and the purchaser of any portion of a run will be entitled to a right of pasturage in the neighbourhood of his station, in the proportion of sixteen head of great cattle or one hundred head of small cattle for every eighty acres of such purchased land.

18. Every occupant of land granted from the Crown will be entitled to the same privilege of running cattle in the same proportion upon the waste lands of the Crown in his vicinity, in those cases where such waste lands are held by other persons as runs, under lease or license from the Government.

19. Such runs as the Government has been in the habit of offering to public competition, or as may possess any peculiar value from being in the immediate vicinity of occupied land, will be, as heretofore, let by public auction, from year to year.

20. 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 block than fifty acres of land.

COMMON OF PASTURAGE ON WASTE LANDS OF THE CROWN.

21. Whenever the Governor shall by proclamation duly made, divide any county or settled portion of the Province into Hundreds, and declare the boundaries thereof; the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall, on or before the 1st day of December in each year, compute the quantity of waste lands of the Crown, in such Hundred, which is not held under any lease or license, and shall also compute the quantity of cattle capable of being depastured on such waste lands of the Crown as aforesaid, and having regard to the number of acres held under grant from the Crown, within the Hundred. The Commissioner shall declare by notice in the GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, the proportionate number of great cattle and small cattle, which may be depastured on the waste lands of the Crown within the Hundred, in respect of any given number of acres within the same held under grant from the Crown, by the occupiers of land held as aforesaid.

22. In computing the proportions of cattle to be depastured upon waste lands of the Crown, within the Hundreds as aforesaid, six head of small cattle shall be deemed equal to one head of great cattle.

23. The notice published by the Commissioner in the GOVERNMENT GAZETTE as aforesaid, shall regulate for the year commencing from the day named in such notice, the proportion of cattle to be depastured by the occupiers of land held under grant from the Crown within the Hundred.

24. No person but an actual occupant of land held under grant from the Crown, within the Hundred, shall be entitled to depasture cattle on such waste lands of the Crown within the Hundred as aforesaid.

25. No person shall be entitled to common of pasture until he shall have deposited with the Commissioner of Crown Lands a declaration of the number of acres held under grant from the Crown, occupied by him in every Hundred in which he claims such advantage, such return to be in the form of Schedule C. hereunto annexed.

26. No purchaser or occupier of any waste lands of the Crown shall enjoy common of pasture within the Hundred, until the 1st of January, next ensuing, when a re-calculation shall have been made by the Commissioner.

27. Pensioners occupying land under permission of the Crown, shall have the same rights regarding common of pasture, as persons occupying land held under grant from the Crown.

28. Natives or Half-castes occupying land with the consent of the Crown, shall have the same rights regarding common of pasture, as persons