NT Selectors Act 1877 (SA)

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO ET QUADRAGESIMO PRIM0

No. 71.

An Act to provide f o r the Payment of Compensatiort to certain

Selectors of Sections of L m d, in the Northem Territory, of

deficient area, and for	other purposes.
[Assented to, 21st December, 1877.1

HEREL4S, pursuant to " Thc Northern Territory Amendment Preamble.

W Act, 1868," and to an Act amending the same, bcing No. 2

of 1869-70, the holders of land orders who should comply with the

conditions in the same Acts mentioned, were entitled to select three hundred and twenty acres of country land in the said Northern Territory, instead of one hundred and sixty acres, by virtue of each land order held by them respectively: And whereas, certain of such land order holders or their legal representatives have duly exercised their right of selection, but the area of the Sections selected by them is less than the quantity of land to which they were entitled, and it is desirable to cornpensake them by payment, at the rate of Three Shillings and Ninepence per acre for the quantity deficient: And whereas certain other holders of land orders entitled by virtue thereof to one hundred and sixty acres kach of country land haw been permitted, although they have not complied with the requirements of the said Acts, or either of them, to select the extended area of threc hundred and twenty acres of land in the said Territory; and it is expedient to legalize the issue of land grants to them, notwith- standing the irregularity: And whereas certain other persons, not having applied for the extended area of three hundred and twenty acres within the time prescribed by law, have selected Sections con- taining one hundred and sixty acres or thereabouts only; and it is desirable to grant to them the right of selecting a sufficient quantity of land to make the total quantity up to three hundred and twenty acres ;

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The Northern Territory 8electors Act.-1 87 7.

acres; the intention of this Act being that all bond ,$de selectors of country land in the said Northern Territory shall, so far as possible, be placed on an equality-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, by and with thc advice and consent of the Legislati~ie Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parliament assembled,

as follows:

Trea~urer may pay 1. The Treasurer may pay to the persons named in the First Schedule

namcdintho~irst set opposite to thcir respective names in the said Schcdule, as

~~~~~~~~0 Era::; to this Act annexed, or to their legal tepresentatives, the sums

8cheddehe"t0s f d compensation, at the rate of Three Shillings and Ninepence per acre for each acre deficient in the area of the Sections selected by them in thc Northern Territory, pursuant to the said Acts and by virtue of the land orders mentioned in the said hhedule; such pay- ment shall be accepted by them in full satisfaction and discharge of all claims whatsoever which they or any of them, or any person claiming under them, may now or hcrcafter have against the Ooverlzment of 8outh Australia by season of the area being deficient as aforesaid, or of the right of selection givcn under the said land orders and Acts respectively.

land grants to person8

Governor may issue

2, It shall be lawfd for the Governor to be caused to be issued representatives, land grants for the Sections of land selected by them in the said Northern Territory, and in such Schedule respectively mentioned, notwithstanding that no notice was given by them of thcir intention to apply for and accept the increased area of three hundred and twenty acres of land pursuant to the said Acts, or either of them. The persons to whom such grants shaU be so issued, shall thenceforward be to all intents and purposes in thc same position as regards the Government of South Australia, as if they had applied for and selected the land included in such grants respectively,

mentioned in

to the persons namcd in the Sccond Schedule hereto, or their legal

Second Schedule

hereto.

pursuant to The Northern Territory Amendment Act, 1868."

Persona mentioned in

the Third &bedale 3, The persons named in the Third Schedule hereto, or their

hemto nay BQ1mt	respective legal representatives, may each select out of the unsold
further land.	eurveyed waste lands of the Crown in the said Northern Territory any such surveyed and unselected Section as will make the total quantity of land selected under the respective land orders mentioned in the said Scheduk, up to three hundred and twenty acre$; and the Governor may issue a land grant of such land to such person upon application: Provided that fh is right of selection shall be exercised,
and the appliation for a gmnt of the land ~elected, made in Adelaide
to the Minister having charge of the adminiatration of Northern
Territov affairs, befom the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and acventy-nine; and provided that this concession shall not confer on such persons any further rights whatever against thb Government of 8outh Australia.

4. This Act may be cited fix all purposes as The Northern

Territory Selectors Act, 1877."

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i n the name and oli b d d f d Her Majesty, f hereby assent to

this Bill:

WM. F, DQUMISIOND JERVQIS, Governor.

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The Northern Territory Selectors Act.-1877.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE.

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Value of 10. of

Name of Selector entitled Sections cea deficienl

Hundred. Land Register.

to 320 acres.	seleotsd.	alculated at
3s. 9d. per kder.

acre.

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S S. a.

William Gray Jackson 70, 124 Bagot 1 13 9 283 London

John Leitch	........	72, 73	Bagot	3 11 3	297	Adelaido
John Ridley	........	95, 96	Ilagot	1 6 3	278	London

1 103

Geo. H a r h g Palmcr.. 3 3 9 187 London

403 hangways I

Thomas winton..	....	350	Strangways	3 3 9	726	Adelaide
Messrs. Churcher,

Martin, & CompignB 1 492,493 Strangways 3 3 9 66 Adelaide

Charles Clarke ...... 1676, 1678 Strnngways 1 13 9 66 London

David Lithgow ...... 2712 Hnghes 4 6 3 576 Adelaide

David Lithgow ......	2713	IIughcs	4 2 6	676	Adelaide
Cavcnagh j

Charles Taylor .......	( 609i::0	Bagot j	1 10	0	475	Adelaide
Ricbard Gimbert; Wil- 1	701, l610	1 1 0 0	612	Adelaide

kinson ............ J 176 ";,,gh )

Jacob Bauer ........ 863,869 Cavenagh 1 6 3 142 Adelaide

Messrs. Davids and 1540, 1648 Cavenagh X 1 7 6 172 Adclaidc

Krtll ............ 1

Thomas Giles ........ 1209, 1230 Colton 1.13 9 271 Adelaide

George S h w ........ 962,1099 Goyder l l 0 0 601 Adelgidc

THE SECOND SCHEDULE.

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Area to No. of

vhich ap- Area of

Name of Land Order holder. Hundred. Land Register.

~licant is Section.

entitled. Order.

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Acres. Acres.

Thomas Wright Vatson ...... 160 320 Goyder London

John Sanderson Bigge ........ l60 320 Guy Jiondon

John Sanderson Rigge ........ 160 320 Cavanilgh London

John Robert Thomson ........ 160 320 Cavnnagh London

Willianl IIcnry Gray. ......... i e o 320 Colton Adelaide

David Thomson .............. I d 0 320 Strangways Adelaide

John Reddon ................ 160 320 Goyder Adelaide

THE THIRD SCHEDULE.

No nf

No, of

Area Hundred.

Lnnd Rcgister.

1 Section.

in Acres.

Order.

Mrs. A. F. E. Burstall., ..............	1568	I P6	Ayers	743	Adelaide
N. F. Mackay ......................	956	160	Goyder	194	London
N. F. Mackny ......................	879	l60	Goyder	377	London

James Du Buisson.. .................. 308 l60 Strangways 164 London

Tames nu Ruiason. ...................	1211	160	Colton	142	London
James Du Buisson.. ..................	9L5	160	Goyder	345	Idondon

R d m t Orford Buckley.. .............. 954 160 Goyder 165 London

Robert Orford Buckley ................ 957 160 Goyder 346 London

Rev. Wm. E. Buckley ................ 968 160 Goyder 170 Londm

Wm. Hy. Gmy ...................... 9, 26 160 Beaconsfield 31 8 Adelaide

Wm. Hy. Gray.. .................... (31, 34. } 160 Beaconsfield 370 Adehide

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Adelaide : By authority, W. C. Oox, Government Printer, North-terrace.