2nd.—A license to depasture upon Common Lands without the limits of a Hundred.

For every license for a defined run, the sum of Five Pounds shall be paid, and the license will be in the form prescribed by Schedule A, hereto annexed.

For every License to depasture on common land, the sum of 10s. 6d. shall be paid—the License shall be in the form prescribed by Schedule B, hereto annexed.

Licenses to depasture upon common lands will be only granted to occupants of land held under Grant from the Crown who may wish to feed cattle upon the adjacent Crown Land, in the proportion of sixteen head of great cattle, or one hundred of small cattle for every eighty acres held under grant from the Crown but no person shall claim the right for a greater extent of land than 320 acres.

Before a License to depasture on common land will be granted, the applicant for such License will be required to deposit with the Commissioner of Crown Lands a return of the lands granted by the Crown, of which he is in occupation according to the form contained in Schedule C, hereto annexed.

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 D, hereto 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.

Persons desirous for the future to occupy 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 such land lodge the same 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.

It shall be in the power of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, after some time has elapsed such alterations in the boundaries of several runs upon enquiry 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 block than forty 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.

ISSUE OF TIMBER LICENSES

Licenses to persons occupying Waste Land of the Crown for the purpose of cutting timber will be required to pay a sum to be fixed by the Governor in Council, yearly, to the Crown for the value of the License.

The Commissioners of Crown Lands will determine the extent of land to which each license shall give a right of occupancy, and the licensee only are to have effect within the district specified in them.

No fresh applicant for a license will be permitted ignominiously to interfere with a portion of forest upon which any other person may have expended capital and labour.

In the event of any occupant of a portion of forest upon which he may have expended any considerable sum in the formation of roads or improvements to facilitate the removal of timber, wishing to design the Commissioner he should be regarded as “having established” claim to this indulgence, he permitted transferring his license and right of pre-occupancy to such person as he may select.

All applicants for Timber licenses must address their applications to the Commissioners of Crown Lands, stating their names and residence in full.

When the application has been approved, it will be forwarded to the Colonial Treasurer to whom, upon payment of the required fee, the license will be issued.

No person will be allowed to cut or remove Timber on or from the Crown Lands which have been reserved by Government for the public use.

The form of Timber License will be according to Schedule E, hereto annexed.

GENERAL.

All licenses to be drawn so as to expire simultaneously on the last day of each year. Those applied for after the 1st June in each year, will only be chargeable with half of the usual fee.

Licenses, excepting those within Hundreds, to be signed and issued by the Colonial Treasurer, upon payment of the proper fee.

No license will preclude the Governor from including within a Hundred, or selling or in any way affecting the rights of such license.

All disputes between licensees having reference to depasturing stock or cutting timber shall be heard and decided by the Commissioner of Crown Lands who is authorised by the Crown Lands Ordinance, to charge at his discretion, for the party against whom his decision shall be made, a fee of three Pounds.

No license for depasturing or timber can be transferred from one person to another, without the consent of the Commissioner of Crown Lands.