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improved within twelve months from the date of any
such certificate or lease; or if at any time during the
currency of the lease the land shall be neglected for a
period of six months.

Transfer.

14. 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; and no such
    transfer will be sanctioned in any case unless and until
    the conditions with respect to improvement shall have
    been duly complied with by the original applicant, and
    all rents due shall have been fully paid.

Rent.

15. 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 the certificate or
    lease as the case may be, and every fractional part of
    an acre will be considered as an acre and charged
    accordingly.

Survey Fees.

16. The fees charged for survey shall be as follows:
    For an ordinary survey, when the area does not
    exceed twenty (20) acres, one pound (£1.)
    For any larger area, at the rate of one shilling per
    acre, or any portion of an acre.

Land may be taken for roads.

17. The Superintendent reserves 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 only at the period when possession
    hereof is taken by the Government.

Conditions of entry to search for gold, &c.

18. The Superintendent reserves the right of free
    entry to any land so leased as aforesaid for the purpose
    of searching for gold, or for any other metal or mineral,
    and of determining any lease when such gold, metals,
    or minerals, shall have been discovered therein; and
    also of granting permission to prospect, without com-
    pensation, upon any unimproved land, subject to such
    regulations as he, the said Superintendent, may hereafter
    think fit to make, upon any applications for such permission being made to him.

Compensation how to be paid when lease determines.

19. In the event of the determination of any Agricul-
    tural Lease, on account of the discovery of gold, or
    of any other metal or mineral, in 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, subject to such terms and conditions as the
    Superintendent may hereafter deem expedient; but no
    compensation will be granted or adjudged for land
    which has not been planted, cultivated, or otherwise
    improved.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Notice.

(Place and date.)

To Warden

I hereby apply for a lease of land for agricultural
purposes situate at (here state the locality) and com-
prising .......... acres or thereabouts; and I deposit
herewith the sum of ten pounds (£10) and agree to
pay any further costs and expenses which may be
incurred in accordance with "The Agricultural Leases
Regulations, 1866."

Signature (name in full and address).

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Agricultural Lease Deposit.

District of ............, Date, ............

No. of application .....................
the
Received from ....................... the
deposit of ten pounds (£10) pursuant to "The Agri-
cultural Leases Regulations, 1866."

Warden.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and
over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, at the Government
House at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this tenth
day of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

J. RICHARDSON,
(For the Colonial Secretary.)

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, the tenth
day of January, 1867.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Marine Act, 1866," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Order in
Council, from time to time, delegate all or any of the
powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act
unto any person or persons, for any period, and subject
to any regulations, restrictions, or stipulations which
may be specified in such Order, and every such delega-
tion may from time to time alter or revoke:

Now, therefore I, Sir George Grey, Knight Com-
mander of the Bath, the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, do, by this Order, delegate unto

THOMAS DICK, Esq.,

Superintendent of the Province of Otago, such of the
powers vested in me as Governor by section seven of
the said Act, as enable me to erect, superintend, and
maintain harbor-marks, lights, and beacons, now or
hereafter to be placed within the limits of any port in
the Province of Otago, or the approaches thereto,
subject however to such directions as may from time to
time be issued by the Colonial Marine Engineer, as to
the size, position, and color of such harbor-marks,
lights, and beacons; and to appoint and suspend or
remove Port or Harbor Masters, and other officers of
ports or harbors within the Province of Otago; and to
define and regulate the conduct and duties of Port or
Harbor Masters, and other persons employed in carrying
out the objects of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,"
and of "The Marine Act, 1866," within the said
Province; and also, within the said Province, the
powers vested in me by clauses ten, eleven, fifteen, and
thirty-seven of the said last-mentioned Act, and the
power vested in me by clause sixteen of the said last-
mentioned Act, to exempt from pilotage, within all or
any of the ports of the Province of Otago, such
Colonial trading vessels trading to the ports of such
Province only as to him shall seem proper to be so
exempted; to have and exercise the said powers
hereby delegated to the said Thomas Dick, Esq., so
long as he shall continue and remain Superintendent of
the said Province, and no longer, subject nevertheless
to such regulations as may from time to time be made
by the Governor in Council under authority of clause
fifty-one of the said last-mentioned Act.

FREDERICK GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.