NT Land Act 1876 (SA)

ANNO TRICESIMO NON0 ET QUADRAGESXMO

VICTORIA3 REGINB.

A. D. 1876.

No. 48.

An Act to amend The Northern Territory Land Act, 1876.

[Assented to, 27th October, 1876.1

IIEREAS it is desirable to amend " The Northern Territory Preamble.

W Land Act, 1872"-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor

of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of

the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province,

in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Sections 39 and 74 of "The Northern Jerritory Land Act, R~P*

1872," are hereby repealed.

2, The time for making applications for lands in the Northern ~ i m e for applicati01a

for plantation selec-

Territory required for plantations of rice, sugar, coffee, tea, indigo, tions extended t~ lat

tobacco, or cotton, or for special purposes, pursuant to clause 81 of January, 1880.

twenty-five years, for grazing and other pastoral purposes, any waste applicant	anted to	tberef	the first	or.
lands in blocks not exceeding four hundred square miles, to the
first applicant therefor, without previously offering: the same for
sale by public auction, and may reserve in any such demise such
rent payable in advance, and may insert therein such conditions and clauses of forfeiture and of resumption as shall be prescribed by any regulations hereinafter authorised to be made touching waste
lands demised for grazing and other pastoral purposes: Provided	that, if any such demise shall terminate, either by effluxion of time

The Northern Territory Land Act, 1872," shall be and the same is hereby extended from the first day of January, 1876, as fixed by clause 82 of the said- Act, to the first day of January, 1880.

8. The Governor may demise, for any period not -exceeding pmt0rd learea m y be

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or otherwise, the land comprised therein shall not be relet for pastoral purposes without a lease of the same having been first offered to the person bidding the highest rent for the same at public auction: And provided that such leases shall not be offered at auction at a less rental than Two Shillings and Sixpence per square mile.

Special suvep. 4. If any person shall apply in writing to tlie Commissioner for a

special survey of any waste lands of not lcss area than twenty acres, and $hall specify the locality of such waste lands, and

shall at the time of making such application deposit with the Com-

missioner an amount to be fixed by the Commissioner, as the cost of such survey, such person shdl be entitled to have the said waste lands surveyed by the sdd Commimioner, and after the said survey shall have been made, to purchase the same for cash at the price of Seven Shillings and Sixpence per awe, and the actual cost of survey; and the said Commissioner shall thereupon deliver to him a grant of such lands: Provided always, that the said Commissioner may refuse to entertain any such application: And provided allso, that notice of every such application shall be given by advertisement in

the Governmefit Gazette.

Inc~sporation. 5.

This Act and 'C The Northern Territory Land Act, 1872," ahall

be incorporated and be read and construed together as forming one

Act accordingly.

short titb. 6. This Act may be cited for all pu~poseu as " The Northern Ter-

ritory Land Ameadment Act, l87 6."

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby

assent to this Bill.

A. MUSORAVE, Governor.

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Adelaide: By authority, W. C. Cox,