The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 44
Appendix E. — The Land District of Nelson
Appendix E.
The Land District of Nelson.
Be It Enacted that within the Land District of Nelson—
Area of sections of rural lands may be changed.
Rural lands to be sold by auction. Upset price.
3. The upset price of rural land shall be from ten shillings to forty shillings per acre, as may be fixed by the Board.
Land to be surveyed before sale.
Applicant may survey land at his own cost.
Cost to be re-funded if applicant not purchaser.
Land open for selection on application.
8. Any applicant for a lease of Crown land may in his application request the Board to assess the land at its value to sell, in accordance with such regulations as may at the time be in force for the sale of Crown lands in the provincial district, and, in the event of such application for a lease being acceded to, shall be entitled to a lease thereof for a term of fourteen years at an annual rental of ten pounds per centum on such assessed value for sale, payable in advance; and on the due and punctual payment of such rent for the term of fourteen years, and upon the due performance and observance of the covenants contained or implied in such lease, be shall be entitled to a Crown grant of such land: Provided always that no greater quantity of land than three hundred and twenty acres shall be so leased to any one person: Provided also that the minimum price of such land shall not be less than ten shillings per acre.
9. It shall be lawful for the lessee of any lands assessed under the last preceding section, and at the rental therein mentioned, to purchase the fee-simple of the land comprised in such lease at any time before the expiration page 159 thereof, upon paying in one sum the balance of the total amount of the fourteen years' rental reserved in and by such lease.
10. It shall be lawful for the Board to grant to any person an occupation license for pastoral purposes of any Crown lands, of such area and subject to such payment by the licensee and upon such other terms as may be agreed upon by and between the Board and the licensee: Provided that any such license shall cease and be determined at any time, in respect of the whole or any portion of the land over which it may have been granted, in the event of the whole or such portion of the said land being reserved, leased, or sold by the Board, and that without any notice to that effect being necessary to be given to any such licensee.
11. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act, whenever any lands shall be reserved for a town or village and be open for sale as town lands, if any of such lands so reserved shall have been within a proclaimed gold field, and at the time of the withdrawal of the same from such gold field such reservation or opening of such land for sale shall have, for a period of two years preceding, been occupied under business license or other lawful authority as a residence or business site, or shall have been so occupied for any less period than two years, and a building of the value of fifty pounds at least have been erected on such land by the occupier or some person through whom be claims, then the Board may, if they shall think fit, sell such land to such occupier, without putting up the same to auction, at such price as shall be fixed by the Board, not being less than at the rate of ten pounds for forty perches of land.