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the satisfaction of the Waste Lands Board,
De considered as abandoned.

52. Every pasturage licence shall be in the
    form set forth in the Schedule C hereto an-
    nexed, and shall be transferable by endorse-
    ment in the form set forth in the Schedule;
    and shall entitle the holder to the exclusive
    right of pasturage over the lands specified
    therein, upon the terms above stated. It is
    intended that such licence shall be renewa-
    ble from year to year until the land specified
    therein shall be purchased, granted, or re-
    served, under these Regulations, and if so re-
    newed, the fee to be paid in respect of such
    Licences shall not be altered until the 1st of
    May, 1870. Such licence shall give no right
    to the soil or to the timber, and shall immedi-
    ately determine over any land which may be
    purchased, granted, or reserved under these
    Regulations. A reasonable right of way shall
    be allowed through all pasturage runs.

53. If at any time during the first four
    years after the issue of the first licence the
    quantity of stock for the run shall be less
    than that originally required, or during the
    next three years less than twice that amount,
    or during any subsequent period less
    than three times that amount the
    Waste Lands Board may declare the whole
    or a portion of such run to be forfeited;
    provided always that with regard to runs
    granted prior to the issue of these Regulations
    such first period of four years shall commence
    from the date on which these Regulations shall
    come into operation: provided that one or
    more runs held by the same individual or
    firm, may for the purposes of this clause be
    considered as one run.

54. In any case in which a runholder can
    prove to the satisfaction of the Waste Lands
    Board that he is precluded by arrangementsen-
    tered into previous to the passing of these Re-
    gulations from actually for a given period plac-
    ing his stock on his own run, it shall be sufficient
    if he prove to the satisfaction of the Board
    that he possesses within the Province the re-
    quisite amount of stock, and will undertake to
    place the same on the run at the expiration of
    such period.

55. Every holder of a licence shall, at any
    time, upon a written order from the Waste
    Lands Board to that effect, make a true and
    complete return of all the stock on his run and
    if he shall wilfully and knowingly make any
    false return the Waste Lands Board shall
    immediately declare his licence to be for-
    feited.

56. Every run or portion thereof which
    shall have been forfeited, as above provided,
    shall be put up by the Waste Lands Board to
    public auction after an advertisement in the
    "Government Gazette" and one or more
    Newspapers of the Province. A licence
    granted after forfeiture shall be deemed to be
    an original license. Upon appeal from any
    person whose Run has been forfeited within
    60 days from the date of such forfeiture, it

shall be lawful for the Superintendent to re-
serve or suspend such forfeiture either wholly
or in part.

57. Every person taking out a license for
    a run which is not stocked, will be required
    to deposit with the Treasurer the sum of ten
    shillings for every hundred acres included in
    the license, which will be returned without
    interest as soon as he shall have fulfilled the
    conditions in respect to stocking the run with-
    in the prescribed period; but if such condi-
    tions be not fulfilled, such deposits shall be
    forfeited.

58. The above rules in respect to stocking
    a run, and to the lodgment of deposit money
    with the Treasurer, shall not apply to runs
    containing less than 5000 acres.

59. Every holder of a license may be re-
    quired at any time to pay for the actual cost
    of the survey of his run at a rate not exceed-
    ing 20s. for every thousand acres.

60. Every holder of a pasturage license
    shall, upon application to the Waste Lands
    Board, be entitled to a preemptive right over
    portions of his run, as follows: For a run of
    not less than 1000 acres and not more than
    5000 acres over a block of land comprising
    and circumjacent to his homestead to the
    extent of 5 per cent of the acreage of the
    run. For a run of 5000 acres and upwards
    over 250 acres of land comprising and cir-
    cumjacent to his homestead or principal
    station, and for all runs over all lands oc-
    cupied by any buildings, enclosures, planta-
    tions, cultivations, or any such other im-
    provements as shall in the judgment of the
    Waste Lands' Board be deemed sufficient for
    the purposes of this clause, together with
    fifty acres, comprising and circumjacent to
    the lands so occupied or improved.

61. The licensee shall at the time of his
    application to the Board give a sufficient
    description of the lands over which he claims
    such pre-emptive right to the satisfaction of
    the Chief Surveyor. And the same shall be
    marked off on the authenticated Maps in the
    Land Office.

62. The Lands included in such pre-
    emptive right may be of such form as the
    applicant shall choose, but any land purchased
    by him in the exercise of such right shall be
    subject to the regulations as to form and
    frontage herein contained.

63. The Waste Lands' Board shall not
    receive nor entertain any application to pur-
    chase from any person other than the run-
    holder, the aforesaid block around the home-
    stead or principal station which does not
    include the whole of such block.

64. The right of pre-emption hereby given
    shall be exercised within one week for all
    lands within 20 miles of the Land office, at
    Christchurch, and within one month for all
    lands at a greater distance therefrom such
    time being reckoned from the date of service
    of a written notice from the Waste Lands'