THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 51

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th January, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ARTHUR DAVID HARVEY, Esq.,
to be Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages, and of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the District of
Dunstan.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1868.

THE following Acts passed by the Provincial
Council of the Province of Hawke's Bay, viz.:-
"Appropriation Act," Session XII., No. 6;
"Credit Act," Session XII., No. 8;
which Acts were reserved for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, having been laid before
the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to
assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th January, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the undermentioned
person, viz. :

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th January, 1868.

A T the request of the Southland Waste Lands
Board, the following Regulations are published
for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

TIMBER Regulations, Southland.—Passed by the
Waste Lands Board on 10th December, 1867, in
accordance with Clause XVI. of "The Southland
Waste Lands Amendment Act, 1867."

HAND-SAWYERS, WOOD-CUTTERS, ETC.

Applications for Timber Licenses may be made at
the Land Office, Invercargill, or at the Police Station
nearest to the reserve on which the applicant intends
to cut.

On application at the Land Office, the applicant
shall pay the fee to the Receiver of Land Revenue,
and on its payment the Chief Commissioner shall
immediately issue a license to cut in the reserve
indicated by applicant.

The ranger or constable in charge of the station,
on payment of the fee, shall give an acknowledgment
for the same on a printed form to be provided by the
board, which shall authorize the applicant to com-
mence cutting at once. The fee thus paid shall be
forwarded by the ranger or constable to the Receiver
of Land Revenue as soon as possible, and on its
receipt the Chief Commissioner shall furnish the
ranger with a license to be by him issued to the
applicant.

The permission granted in such license shall be
confined to the bush stated by the applicant and shall
extend only to lands of the Crown, which have been
already or may hereafter be appropriated for Timber
Reserves in accordance with the provisions of "The
Southland Waste Lands Act, 1865," and any licensed
person cutting timber beyond the limit of his license
will be considered as unlicensed and prosecuted
accordingly.

A fee of ten shillings per month shall be charged
for each person, whether cutting, sawing, or splitting.
A fee of five pounds shall be charged for a license
for twelve months.

An annual fee of two pounds ten shillings shall be
paid by settlers cutting timber by bona fide servants
in their employment for the improvement of land in
their own occupation or firewood for domestic use
but not for sale.

Every holder of a license to cut timber must
exhibit such license to the ranger or officer appointed
in that behalf whenever he may be called on to do so;
and on his refusal will be considered as unlicensed
and prosecuted accordingly.

The Chief Commissioner shall cause to be seized
all cut timber lying on Crown Lands, which he may
have cause to believe has been cut by an unlicensed
person; but in case a right to such timber shall be
asserted within fourteen days after the notice here-
after mentioned, and shall be established to the
satisfaction of the Chief Commissioner, or officer
seizing the same, it shall be restored to the claimant.

All timber when seized shall be marked with the
broad arrow and after due notice of the seizure
thereof in writing, to be posted up in the Land Office
or at the Police Station in the district where such
seizure was made, shall in case no claimant shall
appear and establish his claim within fourteen days
therefrom, be sold in such manner, and subject to
such conditions as the Waste Land Board may
direct.

All timber cut under a yearly license must be
removed within three months after the expiration of
the license; and under a monthly license within one
month, otherwise it may be declared forfeited, seized,
and sold on behalf of the Crown.

The proceeds of the sale of timber so seized are
to be accounted for and paid over to the Receiver of
Land Revenue.

If any person duly licensed shall have established
a sawpit for the purpose of sawing timber, no other
person shall cut timber within one hundred yards of
such pit without consent of the person first occupying
such sawpit: Provided that if the person establishing
such pit shall not use the same, and shall not cut
timber within such distance as aforesaid from the pit
for twenty-eight consecutive days, it shall be lawful for
any other holder of a license to enter thereupon and
to cut timber as though such pit had not been
established; or if such person should only cut timber
to such extent within the twenty-eight days as would
appear to the Board to be done merely for the purpose
of excluding others and not utilising the forest, the
Board may in such case cancel the license.

If any license holder shall for the purpose of
removing timber, have made a tramway or road upon
land being Waste Land of the Crown and not being
a highway, it shall not be lawful for any other person
to use the same without permission of the person
making the same first obtained: Provided that if
such road shall not be used at any time for ninety
consecutive days, it shall be lawful for any holder of
a license at any time thereafter to use the same:
Provided also, that as regards tramways, the Board
reserves to itself the power of deciding on the merits
of each case as it arises.

SAWMILLS.

Exclusive right to cut timber on Waste Lands of
the Crown shall be granted to sawmills on the
following conditions:

Every application for such exclusive right shall be
made in writing and be accompanied with a sketch