NT Land Act 1881 (SA)

ANN0 QUADRAGESIMO QUARTO ET QUADRAGESlMO

QUINT0

A.D. 1881.

No. 220.

An Act to amend the "Northern Territory Land Amend-

ment Act of 1876," and for other purposes.

[Assented to, November r8th, r88r.l

EREAS it is desirable to amend the "Northern Territory b m b ~ v.

Land Amendment Act of 1876 "-Be it therefore Enacted by

the Governor of the Province of South Australia, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Section 3 of the Northern Territory Land Amendment Act, ,% 2 7:: 8 oi

1876," is hereby repealed so far aa it relates to the land hereinafter

described.

2. The Governor may demise for any period not exceeding Porertoaem;seLn&

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lands s h o w in the plan deposited in the office of the Surveyor- twenty-one years, for grazing and other pastoral purposes, the waste demribcd in80hedde. not exceeding four hundred square miles, and may reserve in any such demise such rent payable in advance or otherwise, and may insert therein such conditions as to resumption of town and suburban sections, railways, roads, or public reserves, and of land within the distance of twenty miles from any railway that may be constructed, and such other proviuions na may be deemed necessary for securing to the public the right of passing over the said land, and for authorimng the searching for and removing minerals there- from, and clauses of forfeiture, as may be prescribed by any regula-

I tions to be made under this Act.

3, The

4.4" & 45" VICTORIE, No. 220.

Northern Territory Land Anrendment Act.-1881.

3. The said lands shall not be let as aforesaid unless the lease to

be granted in respect thereof shall have been fir& offered for sale by public auction; and. before such lease shall be offered for sale by auction, notice of the intention to offer the same by auction shall be published in the Government Gazette for not less than two months, describing the land proposed to be offered, date of d e, the upset price, and the term of lease. If the land should not be sold it shall be again offered at a reduced upset price.

The Governor may make and publish euch regulations as may be deemed necessary for fully and effectually c n q h g out and giving force and effect to the various purposes, provisions, and powers in this Act contained, and every regulation when published in the Gazette shall have the force of law.

4.

Oorsmar'a authority

to droniae land under 5. Notwithstanding the Act 179 of 1880, and the regulations under section 3 of the said " Northern Territory Land Amendment Act, 1876," the Governor has heretofore been and still is entitled to demise, to the first applicant therefor, one or more blocks of land, other than the waste lands described in the Schedule hereto, of the area, and for the term and upon the conditions in such section referred to, and whether such blocks (if more than one) adjoin each other or otherwise.

d o n 3 of Act No. in the preamble thereof referred to, it is hereby declared that,

48, 1876, oordrmed.

Shmt title. 6. This Act may be cited as the "Northern Territory Land

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Amendment Act, 1881."

I n the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

WM, I?. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

SCHEDULE

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SCHEDULE.

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DESCRIPTION.

Comprising all thoae lands on the Herbert River, bounded as foUows, &. :-

Commencing at a point fifty miles true south of the junction of the Herbert and James Rivers; thence west for forty-five milea; thence north 100 miles; thence east fifteen miles; thence north sixty miles; thence east to the west boundary of the Colony of Queen~lsnd, 138th meridian of east longitude; thence south to latitude fifty miles south of the junction of the Herbert and Jamea Rivers; thence west to the point of commencement.

Adelaide: By authority, E, B m m, Flonnnmmt F'rinta, Nmth-@-.