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5. Agricultural Leases will not be granted for lands within the boundaries of proclaimed townships or public reserves, nor for any area including a permanent watercourse, or which may present auriferous indications upon survey; and in all cases a public roadway, one chain in width, will be reserved along the margins of streams and rivers.

6. Agricultural Leases will not be transferable without the special sanction and authority of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and for every such transfer a fee or fine of One Pound (£1) will be charged.

7. The Government reserves to itself the right to survey through any land held under an agricultural lease, such roads as may be deemed essential for public convenience, and to throw them open to public traffic, subject to the allowance of valuation for improvements, and for any standing and growing crops which may be in or upon such line of road, at the period when possession thereof is taken by the Government.

8. The rent charged shall be at the rate of Five shillings (5s.) per acre, payable yearly in advance, and any fractional part of an acre will be considered as an acre, and charged accordingly.

9. The Government reserves to itself the right of entering upon any land so leased as aforesaid, for the purpose of searching for gold, or any other metal or mineral, and of determining any lease when such metals or minerals shall have been discovered thereon.

10. In the event of the determination of any agricultural lease on account of the highly auriferous nature of the land thereby demised, the amount of compensation adjudged to be paid to the holder thereof, shall (except in special cases) be contributed by the persons desirous of mining thereon.

11. The fees charged for Survey will be as follows:

    For an ordinary Survey, when the area does not exceed four (4) acres One Pound.

    For any larger area, at the rate of Five shillings per acre, or any portion of an acre.

    And Thirty shillings per diem extra when the time occupied in such survey extends beyond one day.

12. Leases will be cancelled if the land is sublet or transferred without the sanction and authority of the Commissioner of Crown Lands; or if cultivation is not commenced within three months after the issue of the lease; or if at any time during the currency of the lease the land shall be neglected for a period of six months.

SCHEDULE REFERRED TO.

No. :

(Place and Date.)

To the Warden at

I hereby apply for a lease of land for agricultural purposes, situate at [There state the locality] and comprising acres, or thereabouts. And I deposit herewith the sum of Five pounds to cover the costs of Survey, and I agree to pay the further costs (if any) of such Survey, according to the scale prescribed by the Agricultural Leases Regulations.

SIGNATURE [name in full and address]

W. H. CUTTEN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Approved.

J. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.

23rd September, 1862.

PROCLAMATION

OF THE DUNSTAN GOLD FIELD AND THE NOKOMAI GOLD FIELD.

By His Honor JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, ESQ.,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Gold Fields Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation, to constitute and appoint any portion of the Colony to be a Gold Field under the provisions of the said Act, and the limits of such Gold Field from time to time to alter as occasion may require. And whereas by the said Act it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, by the said Act, except the powers conferred by Sections seven, eight, twenty-seven, and forty thereof, subject or not subject to any limitation or restrictions as he may think fit. And whereas by virtue of a Commission bearing date the eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, given under the hand of His Excellency Thomas Gore Browne, at the Government House at Auckland, and under the Public Seal of the Colony, His Excellency Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose in him vested, did delegate, absolutely and without restriction, unto me, John Larkins Cheese