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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

For any number of sheep up
to 500 inclusive, run to
be granted for any num-
ber not exceeding
6000 sheep
For every additional 100 be-
tween
sheep.
500 and 1000...... 500)
1000 and 4000...... 400 additional
4000 and 5000...... 200
5000 and 10,000...... 100
And in no case shall a Run be
granted capable of con-
taining 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
   attempts to evade the foregoing Regulations, or
   to obtain unduly the benefits thereof, the Com-
   missioner shall have full power to decide such
   questions in such manner as may most effectually
   carry out the true spirit and meaning of such
   Regulations.

8. So soon after the time at which rent for a
   Run may have become payable under these
   Regulations as the occupant may, in the opinion
   of the Commissioner, have sufficiently stocked
   the same, he will be entitled to a license to
   depasture stock upon it for fourteen years, in
   the form 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 under
    the provisions of these Regulations, then
    and in that case also the said license shall
    cease and determine as to so much of the
    land as shall be sold as aforesaid from
    and after the day of the date of the
    Provincial Government Gazette in which
    notice of such sales 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 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
    said annual assessment shall not be
    paid by the holder of it, in the manner
    and at the time required by these Regula-
    tions then and in that case the said license
    shall cease and determine, and the Com-
    missioner shall thereupon be empowered
    to notify publicly 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.

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 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
    required to pay a fee of five pounds yearly upon
    the issue of the license.

12. The Commissioner shall determine the
    extent of land to which such license shall give a
    right of occupancy, and the licenses shall only
    have effect within the district 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 resign his license, he shall, if in the
    consideration of the Commissioner he should be
    regarded as having established a claim to this
    indulgence, be permitted to transfer his license
    and right of pre-occupancy to such person as he
    may select.

15. All applicants for timber licenses must
    address their applications to the Waste Land
    Commissioner, stating their names and residences
    in full.

16. When the application has been approved,
    it shall be forwarded to the Receiver of Land
    Revenue, by whom, upon payment of the required
    fee, the license shall be issued.

17. No person will be allowed to cut or remove
    timber on or from the Crown Lands, which have
    been reserved by Government for the public use.

18. The form of Timber Licenses will be
    according to Form C. hereunto annexed.

General.

19. All annual licenses to be drawn so as to
    expire simultaneously on the last day of each
    year.

20. Licenses applied for after the 1st of June
    in each year, will only be chargeable with half
    the usual fee.

21. No license shall preclude the Government
    from including within a hundred, or selling, or
    shall in any way affect the rights of the Crown to
    land occupied in virtue of such license.

22. All disputes between holders of licenses
    having reference to depasturing stock or cutting
    timber, shall be heard and decided by the Com-
    missioner, who is hereby authorised to charge at
    his discretion to the party against whom his
    decision shall be made, a fee of five pounds.

23. Licenses for depasturing purposes may be
    transferred from one person to another, by the
    Commissioner, with the approval of the Super-
    intendent.

A.
FORM OF LICENSE.

Whereas of has made application for s
license to depasture stock upon the Waste Lands
of the Crown within the district of boundaries,
and has this day paid into my hands the sum of