Fees on Land Grants Act 1841 (SA)

ANNO QUINTO

No. 7.

AN ACT to authorize the Levying of Fees on L ~ n d Grants.

HEREAS from the financial condition of the Province and the

W expense of the establishment required for conducting the	Land Department it is necessary in accordance with the practice of
other Colonies to levy a charge on the issue of Land Grants

BE IT THEBEFORE ENACTED by His Excellency GEORGE G m

Esquire Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of South Austrdia by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows-That is to say That from and after the Fifteenth day of November next it shall be lawful for the Resident Commissioner of Public Lands or such other officer as may in that behalf be by him duly appointed to levy and receive from every party who shall apply for any Grant of Land from the said office for

and in respect of the delivery of every such Grant whether the

same shall relate to land then previously selected or thereafter to

be selected the respective fees specified and contained in the

Schedule hereto aunexed which shall be paid to the Colonial Treasurer and appropriated in such manner as the Governor in Council may ordain and be applied to the public uses of the Pxo- vince and support of the Government thereof:

SCHEDUrn.

11. Provided always and be it further Enacted that it shall be law- full for the Governor from time to time to remit such fees in wholc or in part in any case whensoever on proper cause shown he may see fit so to do.

GEORGE GREY,

Governor of South Australia.

Passed the Legislative Council this Fourteenth day of

Geptember, One Thousand Eh~ht	Hundred arndForty-
one.

A. M, MUNDY,

Clerk of Council.

SCHEDULE.

S. 8. d.

For every Grant of Land containing not more than one Section of eighty a c w . . . .. .. . 2 2 0

For every Grant containing more than one Section for every Section or part of a Sec- J

tion after the first an additional fee of. . .. . . . . . . . . ,,. . , , . . . . .. . . . . . .... . . .

Adelaide: Printed by authority by W. C. Cox, Government Printer, North-terrace.