✨ Pasture Occupation Regulations and Coroners Districts
Provided always that the period of three
months above referred to may be
extended to six months in case of the
..... death of the run-holder.
7th. Within 12 months after the issue of
a license, the holder thereof shall
be required to place on the run at
least one breeding ewe for every
twenty acres, or one cow or more for
every one hundred and twenty acres ;
and he shall be required to keep up
at least that number of breeding
stock upon the run during the whole
period of his occupancy.
Should the holder of a license not comply
with this condition, his deposit
shall be absolutely forfeited and the
run shall be let according as is provided for in the foregoing clause.
XII. In the event of any deposit being
made, and the run in respect of which
such deposit has been made not being
afterwards awarded to the depositor by
the Commissioner, the amount so deposited shall be refunded to him immediately after the Commissioner’s decision.
XIII. The beneficial interest in any
occupation license may be at any time
transferred by the licensed holder.
In order to render such transfer valid
it shall be necessary—
1st. That all the conditions upon which
the original license was granted
shall have been complied with, as to
payment of rent and otherwise.
2nd. That notification shall be given to
the Commissioner within one month
of the transfer having been effected.
XIV. The licensed occupier of any run
shall have the right of pre-emption, during
the currency of his lease of his
homestead, to the extent of 50 acres immediately surrounding it, but no more.
XV. A return of all occupation licenses
issued during the past year, together with
all transfers and decisions on disputed
references, and a statement of all deposits
and rents received during the same
period, shall be published by the
Commissioner in the said Government Gazette
during the month of February in each year.
XVI. These Regulations shall come
into force in this Province at the expiration of one month after notice in the said
Government Gazette that they have
received the Governor’s sanction, from and
after which date the Regulations of 1851
shall cease to be acted on.
All persons now entitled to licenses
under the Regulations of 1851, may at
their option expressed in writing to the
Commissioner within six months after
the publication of the sanction of these
present Regulations, have licenses issued
under the first-mentioned Regulations,
to date from the time at which they were
so entitled; or they may have licenses
under these present Regulations to date
from the period of their expressing such
option.
SCHEDULE A.
District.
Boundaries
Estimated extent
Deposit £
Signature of applicant
SCHEDULE B.
Form of Pasture Occupation License.
Whereas A. B., of ____, has made
application for a Pasture Occupation
License in the district of ____, and
has lodged with me the required description
and deposit, and whereas the boundaries of the run thus applied for are set
forth in a plan attached to this license,
and the acreage contents satisfactorily
certified.
Now, therefore, I ____, do hereby
license the said ____ to depasture
stock upon the said land for the term of
14 years from the date hereof, subject
nevertheless to be sooner determined
pursuant to the Regulations under which
this license is issued and to be cancelled
as is in such Regulations provided.
Dated ____
(Signed) C. D.,
Commissioner.
CHAS. CLIFFORD,
Speaker.
I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.
PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council of the Province, Session
II, No. 3, intituled “An Act to
amend the Law relating to Coroners.”
It is among other things enacted, “That
the Superintendent shall define and from
time to time divide and alter the Districts
to which Coroners shall be assigned.”
Therefore I, Isaac Earl Featherston,
the Superintendent of the said Province,
Do hereby declare that the said Province
shall for the purposes of the Act, before
referred to, be divided as follows:—
I. The WELLINGTON DISTRICT comprises the Town of Wellington and the
Wellington Country Districts, viz.—The
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Regulations for Licensed Occupation of Public Pasture Lands
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & SurveyPasture Lands, Occupation Licenses, Land Commissioner, Wellington Province
- C. D., Commissioner
- CHAS. CLIFFORD, Speaker
- I. E. FEATHERSTON, Superintendent
⚖️ Coroners Districts Definition
⚖️ Justice & Law EnforcementCoroners, Districts, Wellington Province
- Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent
Wellington Provincial Gazette 1855, No 7