The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 2
Sec. IV.—Unproclaimed Lands
Sec. IV.—Unproclaimed Lands.
15. Any person desirous of purchasing Crown Lands in
districts not proclaimed or notified as about to be surveyed for sale, must, after selecting the locality and determining the number of acres he desires to purchase, give notice thereof to the Commissioner of Crown Lands; when he will be required, if the Government has no surveyor available for that purpose, to have such lands surveyed at his own expense by a surveyor authorised by Government in that behalf, whose survey must be duly approved before the applicant is allowed to complete the purchase.
Applicants for lands in unproclaimed districts to make their own surveys if a Government Surveyor cannot be sent.
In such case an allowance of five acres per cent, will be made.
If such Land be sold at Auction and the original applicant be outbid, the original applicant will be repaid, as the cost of such survey, a sum not exceeding one shilling per acre.
Allotments in unproclaimed districts not to be less than eighty acres in extent.
Certain rules for Lands in proclaimed districts to be also applicable in un-proclaimed.