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1st. No license whatever shall be issued
until the approximate accuracy of the
computation of the acreage of the run
be certified to the satisfaction of the
Commissioner, and endorsed on a plan
thereof, which plan shall exhibit, as
neatly as may be, the boundaries of the
run, and shall be attached to the li-
cense. The applicant is bound to ob-
tain such certificate and plan at his
expense.

2nd. If at any time during the currency of
such occupation license, the land com-
prised therein, or any part thereof,
shall become included within the boun-
daries of any agricultural or small
farm, or other reserve, then the sald
occupation license shall cease and de-
termine as to so much of the land as
shall be included within such boundaries
from and after the day of the date of
the Proclamation by which such re- serves shall be declared open for use
and occupation.

3rd. If at any time during the currency of
such occupation license, the land com-
prised therein, or any part thereof,
shall be sold by or on behalf of the
Crown, then and in that case also the
said license shall cease and determine,
over so much of the land as shall have
been sold from and after the months
notice of such sale in the said Go-
vernment Gazette.

4th. Rent for a run shall be computed upon
the acreage according to the following

For the first four years of occupation, at the
rate of one farthing per acre per annum,

For the next five years, of occupation, at the
rate of one halfpenny per acre per
annum.

For the remaining five years of occupation
at the rate of one penny per acre per
annum.

5th. All rents shall become due and pay-
able to the Land Commissioner of the
district where the runs are situated an, nually during the month of January in
each year of occupation up to the 31st
of the preceding: December: Provided
that, for licenses issued after the 30th
of June in any given year, only half
a year's rent shall be chargeable in the
next ensuing month of January.

6th. When any arrears of rent shall remain
unsettled for a period of three months,
in that case the said license shall cease
and determine, and the Land Commis-
sioner for the district is thereupon re-
quired to notify in the said Govern-
ment Gazette the forfeiture of such
license, and to let the run to which it re-
lates by public auction, whereof one
month's notice shall be given, to the
highest bidder for a term of 14 years,
subject to the conditions of these re-
gulations.

Provided always, that the period of three
months above referred to may be ex-
tended to six months in case of the
death of the run-Holder.

7th. Within 12 months after the issue of a
license, the holder thereof shall be re-
quired to place on the run at least one
breeding ewe for every 20 acres, or
else one cow or more for every one
hundred and twenty acres; and he
shall be required to keep up at least
that number of breeding stock upon
the run during the whole period of his
occupancy.

Should the holder of a license not comply
with this condition, his deposit shall be
absolutely forfeited and the run shall
be let according as is provided for in
the foregoing clause.

XII. In the event of any deposit being made
and the run in respect of which such deposit
has been made not being afterwards awarded
to the depositor by the Commissioner, the
amount so deposited shall be refunded to him
immediately after the Commissioner's deci-
sion.

XIII. The beneficial interest in any occu-
pation license may be at any time transferred
by the licensed holder.

In order to render such transfer valid, it
shall be necessary-

1st. That all the conditions upon which the
original license was granted shall have
been complied with, as to payment of
rent, and otherwise.

2nd. That notification shall be given to
the Commissioner, within one month of
the transfer having been effected.

XIV. The licensed occupier of any run
shall have the right of pre-emption, during the
currency of his lease, of his homestead, to the
extent of 80 acres immediately surrounding
it, but no more.

XV. A return of all occupation licenses is-
sued during the past year, together with all
transfers and decisions on disputed references,
and a statement of all deposits and rents re-
ceived during the same period, shall be pub-
lished by the Commissioner in the said
Government Gazette during the month of
February in each year.

XVI. These Regulations shall come into
force in this Province, at the expiration of one
month after notice in the said Government
Gazette that they have received the Governor's
sanction, from and after which date the Regu-
lations of 1851 shall cease to be acted on.

All persons now entitled to licenses under
the Regulations of 1851, may, at their option
expressed in writing to the Commissioner
within six months after the publication of the
sanction of these present Regulations, have li-
censes issued under the first mentioned Regu-
lations, to date from the time at which they
were so entitled; or they may have licenses
under these present regulations to date from the
period of their expressing such option.