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and his successors in office Doth hereby demise and lease unto the said James George Lewis his executors administrators and assigns ALL that parcel of land in the said Province containing by admeasurement nine hundred and fifty acres more or less situate in the Coast District aforesaid being Sections numbered respectively 6, 7, and 8 Block numbered I. and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Block numbered III. and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Block numbered V. on the map of the said District bounded towards the north-west by a road line three thousand four hundred links and eight thousand one hundred and forty links and eight thousand two hundred links towards the north-east by a road line four thousand one hundred and fifty-four links towards the south-east by a road line eight thousand seven hundred links and eight thousand six hundred and fifty links and three thousand four hundred and sixty links and towards the south-west by Section numbered 6 Block numbered I. Coast District aforesaid four thousand three hundred links and intersected by two road lines one hundred links wide. Also all that parcel of land in the said Province containing by admeasurement fifty-three acres more or less situate in the Coast District aforesaid being Section numbered 1 Block I. on the said map bounded towards the north-west by a road line one thousand three hundred and ten links towards the north-east by Section numbered 2 of the same Block four thousand one hundred links towards the south-east by a road line one thousand three hundred and twenty links and towards the south-west by Sections numbered respectively 1, 2, and 3 Block numbered I. North Molyneux District four thousand links. And also all that parcel of land in the said Province containing by admeasurement two hundred and seventy-two acres more or less being part of Sections numbered respectively 6 and 7 Block numbered one I. last aforesaid and unsurveyed land contiguous thereto bounded towards the west north-west by the remaining part of sections numbered 6 and 7 last aforesaid two thousand nine hundred links and by Crown lands eleven thousand links, towards the north-east by a road line four thousand one hundred links and towards the south-east by a road line eleven thousand three hundred links and two thousand three hundred links and intersected by a road line one hundred links wide and which said sections or pieces or parcels of land are delineated on the plan in the margin hereof and colored red To hold the said sections or pieces or parcels of land hereby demised or expressed or intended so to be with their appurtenances unto the said James George Lewis his executors administrators and assigns for the term of twenty-one years to be computed from the tenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two subject to the proviso for cessor hereinafter contained YIELDING AND PAYING therefor yearly and every year during the said term the clear yearly rent or sum of Thirty pounds by two equal half-yearly payments in each and every year of the said term PROVIDED ALWAYS and it is hereby declared and agreed by and between the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson and the said James George Lewis and the true intent and meaning of them and of these presents nevertheless is that if the said James George Lewis shall by notice determine the lease of the said coal mine contiguous to the land hereby demised and heretofore referred to at any time before the expiration of the said term of twenty-one years hereby granted then and in that case this lease and the term hereby granted shall thereupon immediately cease and determine any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And the said James George Lewis for himself his heirs executors and administrators doth hereby covenant to and with the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson Superintendent as aforesaid and his successors in office that he and they shall not nor will at any time assign or underlet or part with the possession of the said sections or pieces or parcels of land and hereditaments hereby granted or any part thereof without the consent in writing of the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson Superintendent as aforesaid and his successors PROVIDED ALWAYS that in the event of the rent herein before reserved or any part thereof being in arrear for one calendar month although no formal demand for payment shall have been made or upon breach of non-observance or non-performance by the said James George Lewis his executors administrators or assigns of any of the covenants herein contained or implied it shall be lawful for the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson as Superintendent aforesaid and his successors as aforesaid to re-enter upon the premises hereby demised and repossess and hold the same as if this demise had not been made IN WITNESS whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto subscribed their names.
J. L. RICHARDSON.
JAS. GEO. LEWIS.
Signed by the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson and sealed with
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Lease of Clutha Coal Field
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πΊοΈ Lands, Settlement & Survey26 June 1862
Coal field, Lease, Clutha, Otago, Mining, Royalty, Ventilation
- James George Lewis, Lessee of Clutha Coal Field
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent
Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 209