OTAGO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Vol. X. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1866. No. 413

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

PROCLAMATION.

Clauses, Provisos, and Conditions to be contained or implied in Agricultural Leases under the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” and the “Gold Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865.”

By His Honor THOMAS DICK, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

I, THOMAS DICK, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in this behalf, proclaim and declare the clauses, provisos, and conditions following, as applicable to any Agricultural Leases to be hereafter granted under the several provisions of the “Gold Fields Act, 1862” and the “Gold Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865,” relating thereto, that is to say:—

1st. Agricultural Leases will be granted for a term not exceeding seven years.

2nd. Agricultural Leases will not be transferable without the special sanction and authority of His Honor the Superintendent, and for every such transfer a fee or fine of one pound (£1) will be charged.

3rd. 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.

4th. The rent charged shall be at the rate of two shillings and sixpence (2s. 6d.) per acre, payable half-yearly in advance from the date of application, and any fractional part of an acre will be considered as an acre, and charged for accordingly.

5th. The Government reserves to itself the right of free ingress to and egress from any land so leased as aforesaid, and of entering thereupon 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, and also of permitting prospecting, without compensation, upon any unimproved land.

6th. 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; but no compensation will be granted or adjudged for land which has not been cultivated or otherwise improved.

7th. The fees charged for survey shall be as follows:—

For an ordinary survey, when the area does not exceed twenty (20) acres, one pound.

For any larger area, at the rate of one shilling per acre, or any portion of an acre.

8th. Leases will be cancelled if the land is sublet or transferred without the sanction and authority of His Honor the Superintendent, or if cultivation or other permanent improvement is not commenced within six 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.

9th. A fee of two pounds (£2) will be charged for every Agricultural Lease, and if any applicant fails or neglects to execute any such lease within one (1) month after receiving notice from the Warden that such lease is ready for execution, the Government will proceed to cancel such lease, and the said fee of £2 will be deducted from the original deposit.

Persons applying for Agricultural Leases must strictly observe the following Regulations:—

1st. Leases will be granted for a term not exceeding seven (7) years, in accordance with the provisions of the “Gold Fields Act, 1862,” and of the “Gold Fields Acts Amendment Act, 1865.”

2nd. Every application for an Agricultural Lease must be made (in the form of the Schedule hereunto annexed, or to the like effect) to the Warden of the District wherein the land is situate; and copies of such application must be posted and maintained for a period of fourteen (14) days, on boards standing not less than three (3) feet above the surface of the ground, and erected, one at each corner of the land so applied for.

3rd. Every application must be accompanied by a deposit of Ten Pounds (£10) to cover the costs of