APPENDIX II. 



LAND LAWS. 



CONDITIONAL PURCHASES. 



There are several modes of obtaining land under conditional purchase, as 

 prescribed by the following clauses of the Land Regulations and Homesteads 

 Act : 



SELECTION WITH RESIDENCE INSIDE A SURVEYED AGRICULTURAL AREA. 



Section 53 of ihc Homesteads, Act takes the place of Clause 46 of tlie Land 

 Regulations 



This section is only applicable to land within a surveyed agricultural area. 



The maximum area allowed to one person is 1000 acres, and the minimum 

 loo acres. 



The price is los. per acre, payable as rent at the rate of 6cl. per acre per annum 

 for 20 years ; application must be accompanied by the rent due for the first year, 

 or part of a year, as prescribed by Clause 101 of the Land Regulations. 



The lessee must, within six months from the date of approval of his application, 

 take personal possession of the land, and must reside upon portion of it, as pre- 

 scribed by the Act. 



The improvements required are that within two years one-tenth of the land 

 shall be fenced, the whole within five years, and within ten years a sum equal to 

 los. an acre shall be expended in prescribed improvements, in addition to the cost 

 of the exterior fencing. 



At the expiration of the lease, or at any time after five years from the date of 

 commencement of the lease, provided that all conditions have been complied with, 

 and the fencing and improvements maintained, a Crown grant may be obtained on 

 payment of the balance of purchase money and prescribed fee of 308, 



A statutory declaration, in the form prescribed by Schedule No. 16 of the Land 

 Regulations, shall be furnished to the Minister on or before the 1st of March in each 

 of the first five years of the lease, and at the end of the tenth year-, and also when 

 applying for the Crown grant, setting forth that the required conditions of 

 residence, fencing, and improvement have been fulfilled. 



PERSONS NOW HOLDING LAND IN FEE SIMPLE <>K I'NDKK SPECIAL OCCUPATION 

 LICKNSK WISHING TO TAKE MOKK LAND. 



Section 34 of the Homesteads Aet takes tlie place of Clause 4; of the Land 

 Regulations. 



This section is intended for those who possess land in fee simple or special 

 occupation under the present or any former Land Regulations, or who may be the 

 holder of a lease of such land from the owner, anil reside upon a port inn of such 

 land, and is applicable either- within an agricultur.il area or outside oi it. 



Under this section a person can take up from looto looo acres anywhere from 

 land available for selection within lo miles of his homestead. 



The rent and conditions, excepting residence, are the same as under Section 

 33 ; but if the land is not surveyed, the c< nuliti< m- >\\M date from the date of survey 

 instead of from the commencement of the lease. 



