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VI. Scrip.

37. The scrip issued in satisfaction of
    claims under land-orders of the New Zealand
    Company shall be taken in payment for
    Town and Suburban land, at the nominal
    value of such Scrip in pounds sterling. In
    the purchase of any other land one pound
    in Scrip shall represent the selling price of
    one acre, when such selling price does not
    exceed twenty shillings, and in other cases
    shall represent its nominal value of one
    pound.

VII. Leasing of Mineral Lands.

38. Any person applying for a lease of
    land, for the purpose of working minerals,
    shall be entitled to the same upon the fol-
    lowing terms and conditions.

39. The amount of land to be leased
    shall be determined by the Superintendent,
    acting with the advice of his Executive
    Council and the Land Commissioner; in no
    case to exceed two square miles.

40. The term to be granted shall be any
    number of years, at the option of the lessee
    not exceeding twenty-one.

41. There shall be reserved a royalty, or
    rent of one-fifteenth of the minerals raised.

42. The lease shall contain clauses in the
    usual form:-

43. For securing he payment of the
    royalty or rent.

44. For enabling some person on part
    of the Government to enter and
    examine the mine.

45. For securing the regular, proper,
    and efficient winning and working
    of the minerals.

46. For making void the lease on breach
    of the stipulations on the part of
    the lessee therein contained.

47. For delivering up the property at
    the termination of the lease in
    good tenantable repair.

48. For enabling the lessee to abandon
    the working of the minerals
    whenever he shall find the same
    unprofitable, and to surrender the
    lease.

49. In the event of simultaneous appli-
    cations for a lease of the mineral land, the same
    will be put up to auction, and the upset
    price for a lease of twenty-one years shall be
    a rent or royalty of one-fifteenth of the
    minerals to be raised. All applications made
    on the same day shall be deemed simulta-
    neous applications.

50. Every applicant for a mining lease,
    shall furnish to the Land Commissioner, at
    the time of making such application, a plan
    and description of the land applied for,
    which plan and description shall be made
    and prepared by a Surveyor, to be approved
    of by the said Commissioner.

51. The land, or any portion thereof,
    comprised in a mining lease, not exceeding
    640 acres in any one block, shall, at the re-
    quest of the lessee, at any time after the
    minerals shall have been worked for three
    years, be put up at an upset price of £1
    per acre, subject to the lease thereof already
    granted.

52. A right of way will be reserved to
    lessees of mineral lands through the adjoin-
    ing waste lands of the Crown, towards the
    most convenient place of shipment, or other--
    wise, as may be necessary for conveying
    away the produce; but such right of way
    will not be exclusively granted to any one
    lessee.

VIII. Licenses to cut Timber on Crown
Lands.

47. The Rules and Regulations for the
    issue of Timber Licenses, made under the
    Crown Lands Ordinance, No. I, of Session
    10, and Crown Lands Amendment Ordi-
    nance, No. 10, of Session 11, are hereby
    confirmed; provided that the land to be com-
    prised in any one license shall in no case
    exceed ten acres; and provided also that the
    license may be issued by the Commissioner
    of Crown Lands in lieu of the Colonial
    Treasurer, as heretofore required.

IX. Regulations for the Licensed Occupation
of Pasture Lands in the Province of Nel-
son.

1. All persons requiring occupation li-
   censes for unoccupied portions of pasture
   lands in the Province of Nelson, shall lodge
   with the Land Commissioner of the district
   in which such run is situated, a description
   thereof, in form or to the effect of Schedule
   A, and shall, at the time of lodging such
   description, pay to the Commissioner a cash
   deposit according to the following scale,
   viz.-

£15 for runs described as under 10,000
acres.
£30 for runs described as under 20,000
acres.
£50 for runs described as over 20,000
acres.

2. All applications which shall been regu-
   larly made, and in respect of which the re-
   quired deposit shall have been paid, shall
   be immediately filed and registered in the
   Commissioner's office; and the register of all
   such applications shall be open to public in-
   spection within office hours.

3. The Commissioner shall publish with-
   out delay, in the Government Gazette of the
   Province of Nelson, the description of every
   run thus applied for, together with the name
   of the applicant, and the amount paid in de-
   posit.

4. The Commissioner and the Superin-