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Clause 55. 



O/ijcctions to Jurisdiction. 



55. In any proceedings under this Act, the jurisdiction of the Local Land Board, or Court, 

 or Justices before whom the proceedings are had, shall not be ousted on the ground that the 

 case raises any question of title to laud, or that the defendant does not reside within the boun- 

 daries of the jurisdiction of the Board or Court or Justices before which or whom the proceedings 

 are had : Provided that the land in respect of which the case arises shall be situated within the 

 boundaries of the jurisdiction of such Board or Court of Justices. 



A liabbit Board shall be taken to be a Local Authority within the meaning and for the 

 purposes of the Justices Enabling Act of 1872. 



Mr. BACON (Brewarrina) moved, " That clause 55 be passed as printed." 



Mr. J. M. ATKINSON seconded the motion. 



The question was put to the meeting and carried. 



Clause 56. 



Proceedings before Local Land Boards. 



56. In any proceedings which under this Act may be had before a Local Land Board for 

 the determination of any contribution, value, or other sum of money (not being an amount pay- 

 able under any rabbit rate or as compensation by a Kabbit Board), the Local Land Board in 

 determining the sum payable may give time for the payment thereof, and to that end may 

 determine instalments by which the same may be paid, and fix the dates on or before which such 

 instalments shall respectively be paid. 



Where any proceedings under this Act are had before a Local Land Board an appeal or 

 reference shall lie to the Land Appeal Court ; but if no appeal or reference is made the deter- 

 mination or decision of the Local Land Board shall be final and conclusive. 



The provisions of the Crown Lands Acts regulating proceedings before Local Land Boards, 

 and upon appeals and references to the Land Appeal Court under such Acts shall, as far as 

 practicable, be applied to proceedings, appeals, and references under this Act ; and for the pur- 

 poses of proceedings under this Act, the Land Appeal Court and Local Land Boards and the 

 respective members and officers thereof shall have the same authorities and powers as are con- 

 ferred by the Crown Lands Acts for the purposes of proceedings under the said Acts, and in 

 addition thereto the Land Appeal Court and a Local Laud Board shall have power to make such 

 orders as to the costs of any proceedings before the Local Land Board as may appear to be just. 



Mr. LESLIE (Forbes) moved, " That clause 56 be passed as printed." 

 Mr. DAVIES (Q-unnedah) seconded the motion. 

 The question was put to the meeting and carried. 



Clause 57. 



Provision for giving of notices. 



57. Any notice given under or for the purposes of this Act, or any Regulation made 

 thereunder, may be given in any one of the following ways : 



Personally to the person to whom the notice is addressed. 



By letter sent through the post and directed to the last known place of abode or of business 

 in New South Wales of the person to whom the notice is addressed. 



By advertising the same twice at least in some newspaper circulating in the district in 

 which the lands the subject of such notice are situate, an interval of a week or more 

 being allowed to elapse between such advertisements : Provided that notice shall only 

 be given as last aforesaid when the whereabouts, or the last place of abode or of business 

 in New South Wales, of the person to whom such notice is addressed cannot be dis- 

 covered by the person issuing such notice. 



And any notice required by this Act to be given to the owner or the occupier (as the case 

 may be) of any holding or land, shall in cases where several persons are the owners or the 

 occupiers thereof, be duly given if given to one of such owners or occupiers as the case may be. 



Mr. ALISON (Canonbar) moved, " That in line 43 the word ' registered ' be inserted before the word 

 ' letter.' 



The Honorable BUPEBT CAEINGTON (Jerilderie) said it would be too expensive. 



Mr. FLANAGAN (Guubar) seconded the resolution, as he thought that this would be the readiest 

 way of proving delivery. 



Mr. BACON (Brewarrina) supported it, and said that in a former Act a registered letter was 

 required as proof of the service of the notice. 



The amendment was put to the meeting and carried. 



Clause 57, as amended, was put to the meeting and carried. 



Clause 58. 



58. For the purposes of any proceeding under this Act, the description of any holding or 

 lands need not be a description by metes and bounds, but shall be sufficient if it make such 

 reference to the holding or land either by name, situation, boundaries, or otherwise, as to allow 

 of no reasonable doubt as to what holding or land is referred to. 



Mr. BACON (Brewarrina) moved, "That clause 5S bo passed as printed." 



Mr. ALISON (Canonbar) seconded the motion. 



The question was put to the meeting and carried. Clause 



