✨ Land and Timber Regulations
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto 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. IV. AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 1851. No. 33.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 5th November, 1851.
HIS EXCELLENCY the LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR has directed the publication of the following Regulations relating to the occupation of Crown Lands for the Depasturing of Stock and for Cutting Timber, in the Province of New Ulster.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
FOR THE ISSUE OF PASTURE AND TIMBER LICENSES FOR THE OCCUPATION OF WASTE LANDS OF THE CROWN OUTSIDE HUNDREDS.
Issue of Depasturing Licenses outside the Boundaries of Proclaimed Hundreds.
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All persons requiring Licenses for Runs on unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands, or for portions of the same which they now occupy, shall lodge a description of such Run (as near as may be in the form of Schedule B. hereunto annexed) with the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District in which such Run is situated.
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If no objection exist to the applicant being allowed to occupy such Run, the Commissioner will thereupon publicly notify that it has been claimed as a Run, and he will at the same time publish (in the Government Ga zette, or in a local newspaper), whenever he has the means of so doing, the name of the person claiming the Run, and the description of it.
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No person shall be allowed to dispute the claim of another person to any Run described according to these Regulations, unless he shall do so within three months subsequently to the date of the publication above alluded to.
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From the date of the expiration of the abovementioned period of three months, the applicant will be required to pay rent for the Run at the rate and in the manner after mentioned; and he will be required to distinguish, by marked trees or posts, or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Commissioner, such boundaries of the Run as are not distinctly defined by streams or natural boundaries.
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Any person who shall have a Run, or any considerable part thereof, unoccupied by the requisite amount of stock for a period of six months after he shall have claimed the same, shall be liable to be regarded as having abandoned such Run or part thereof; and if the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall find it necessary publicly to notify that such Run or part thereof has been so abandoned, it shall thereupon be given into the occupation of the first applicant for it.
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In estimating the Sufficiency of Stock for any Run applied for, the Commissioner shall not allow for natural increase in any proportions, with respect to the amounts of Stock on the Run, greater than those set forth in the following scale: ...
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New Ulster Gazette 1851, No 33
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🗺️ Regulations for Occupation of Crown Lands
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey5 November 1851
Crown Lands, Pasture Licenses, Timber Licenses, New Ulster
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary