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Leases
of Crown Lands Beyond the Settled Districts. 9 October 1847 The Sydney Morning
Herald |
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Colonial
Secretary's Office, Sydney,
October 7, 1847. Leases of Crown Lands Beyond The Settled Districts. 1.-His
Excellency the Governor, in reference to his Proclamation of this date,
publishing Her Majesty's Order in Council, regulating the occupation of
waste lands of the Crown within this colony, deems it proper to caution the
licensed occupants of waste lands of the Crown beyond the settled
districts, that the rights conferred on them by the 11th section of c(h)ap. II. of the Regulations, must be exercised within
the periods in that section prescribed, by relation to the date of the
Proclamation above referred to, publishing the said Order in Council. 2.-The
applications must be lodged in the office of the Colonial Secretary, in
Sydney, if the lands for which the lease is applied for be Situated
within, the Sydney or Middle District; or of his Honor
the Superintendent at Melbourne, if within the Southern or Port Phillip District;
and in order to preserve uniformity, the applicants will be required to use
the printed forms-copies of which may be obtained from the Commissioners
of Crown Lands beyond the settled districts, as well as at the office of
the Superintendent at Melbourne, and at this office. 3.-All
such applications must set forth the names and clear descriptions of the
runs applied for, and of the boundaries of the same, as prescribed with
respect to new runs, by the 13th section of chap. II. of the Order in Council.
In such descriptions it will be necessary to refer to leading geographical
features, and marked or determined boundary lines, as well as to the
names of the occupants of adjacent lands, and to give the length and
general direction of the several boundary Lines with reasonable
certainty; and also to state the supposed extent of the runs, and the number
of sheep, or equivalent number of cattle, which each run may be estimated as capable
of carrying. 4.-An
abstract of all applications received will, from time to time, be
published in the New South Wales Government Gazette or Port Phillip
Government Gazette, for the information of all parties concerned. 5.-Persons
who object to the claims of others, either wholly or in part, as
comprising lands to the lease of which they may conceive themselves
entitled, are recommended to lodge in the office of the Colonial
Secretary, or Superintendent of Port Phillip, caveats referring to I such
claims, and specifying the lands to which,, their objections extend, and
the, grounds on which they prefer their claims to the same. 6.-It
will be impossible that, the issue of leases should take place
immediately on demands being made for them. In many cases the Government
may not be able until the end of the year 1848, to determine whether the particular
runs applied for will be included in the intermediate or unsettled
districts, and in all cases
it will be necessary to consider and decide on the claims of applicants
- to verify the descriptions of the runs - and to estimate the
number of sheep or cattle which each run will carry - and the rent
accordingly to be paid. His Excellency, however, desires at the same time
to intimate, that all practicable despatch will be used, for the purpose
of putting the occupants of Crown Lands in possession of the leases,
to which they may be entitled under Her Majesty's declarations. By His Excellency’s command, E. Deas Thomson. |