RULES AND REGULATIONS
For the issue of Pasture and Timber Licenses for
the occupation of Waste Lands of the Crown
outside Hundreds, referred to in the 60th
Section of the above Regulations.

Issue of Depasturing Licenses outside the boun-
daries of Proclaimed Hundreds.

1. 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 an-
   nexed) with the Commissioner of Crown Lands
   for the district in which such Run is situated.
2. If no objection exists 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 Gazette 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.
3. No person shall be allowed to dispute the
   the claims 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.
4. From the date of the expiration of the
   above named 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.
5. Any person who shall have a Run or any
   considerable part thereof unoccupied by the re-
   quisite 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 aban-
   doned, it shall thereupon be given into the occu-
   pation of the first applicant for it.
6. 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 amount of stock on the run,
   greater than those set forth in the following
   scale:-
   For any number of sheep up to
   500 inclusive, run to be grant-
   ed for any number not ex-
   ceeding ....................5000 sheep
   For every additional 100 between
   500 and 1000....................500
   1000 and 3000..................400 additional
   3000 and 5000....................200 sheep.
   5000 and 10000....................100
   And in no case shall a run be granted capable of
   containing more than 25,000 sheep. In estimating
   runs for great cattle, one head of such cattle shall
   be rated as six sheep.
7. In case of any questions arising as to at-
   tempts to evade the foregoing Regulations, or to
   obtain unduly the benefits thereof, the Commis-
   sioner shall have full power to decide such ques-
   tions in such manner as may most effectually
   carry out the true spirit and meaning of such
   Regulation.
8. So soon after the time at which rent for a
   run may have become payable under these Regu-
   lations, as the occupant may, in the opinion of
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   the Commissioner, have sufficiently stocked the
   same, he will be entitled to a license to depas-
   ture stock upon it for fourteen years, in the form
   of Schedule A., hereunto annexed, and subject
   to the following conditions:—
9. If at any time during the currency of such
   license, the land comprised therein, or any
   part thereof, shall be included within the
   boundaries of any Hundred, the said license
   shall cease and determine 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
   Hundred shall be constituted.
10. If at any time during the currency of such
    license, the land comprised 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 as to
    so much of the land as shall be so sold as.
    aforesaid from and after the day of the date
    of the Government Gazette in which notice of
    such sale shall be published.
11. The annual license fee shall be in all cases
    at least five pounds; and each person who
    occupies a run shall pay annually in addition
    a further license fee at the rate of one pound
    sterling for every thousand sheep above five
    thousand, which the run so occupied shall
    be estimated to be capable of containing, and
    in the same proportion for great cattle six
    sheep being rated as one head of great cattle.
12. If at any time during the currency of such
    license such annual fees and the annual as-
    sessment imposed by law should not be paid
    by the holder of it, in the manner and at
    the time required by the local Ordinance
    and by these Regulations, then and in that
    case the said license shall cease and deter-
    mine, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands
    will thereupon be empowered to notify pub-
    licly the forfeiture of such license, and to let
    the run to which it relates by public auction
    to the highest bidder for a term of fourteen
    years, subject to the conditions of these Regu-
    lations, and of any law for the regulation of
    pastoral pursuits.
13. No such license for fourteen years will be
    granted to any applicant for a run until he shall
    have paid all arrears of rent and assessments
    which may be owing by him for such run.
14. In the event of any dispute arising between
    two or more claimants regarding the boundaries
    of their respective runs, it shall be in the power
    of the Commissioner of Crown Lands to make
    such alterations in the boundaries of their runs,
    or of any of them as he may upon enquiry, judge
    to be just and expedient.

Issue of Timber Licenses.
11. Persons occupying waste land of the Crown
for the purpose of cutting timber, will be re-
quired to pay a fee of five pounds yearly to the
Crown upon the issue of the license.
12. The Commissioner of Crown Lands will
determine the extent of land to which such li-
cense shall give a right of occupancy, and the
licenses are only to have effect within the dis-
trict specified in them.
13. No fresh applicant for a license will be
permitted injuriously to interfere with a portion
of forest upon which any other person may have
expended capital and labour.
14. 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 reviga his license, he will, if in the