NT Settlement Act 1881 (SA)

MNO QUADRAGESIMO QUAltTO ET QUADRAGESIMO

QUINTO

VICTORIB REGINE.

AD. 1881.

No. 224.

An Act to amend Act No. rgq of 1880.

[Assented to, Novembev 18&, 1881.1

HEREAS it is desirable to amend Act No. 194 of 1880, and &m.

W to further promote the cultivntion of sugarcane and other tropical products, and to enable lands selected or to be selected

under the said Act, in the Northern Territory, to be vorked in large blocks-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. If any person or company shall become entitled by transfer, cm&tirnormtnat

assignment, or otherwise, under more than one contract, to two or whm m v " h & ~	more sections or blocks of land, the conditions as to shape, occupa- held by rme p e m a
tion, cultivation, amount to be expended, and quantity of products to be obtained from the said sections or blocks shall be deemed to apply to such sections or blocks of land as a whole in the same manner ss if all of such sections or blocks had been lawfully selected and hcld under one contract. Provided that no such amalgamation
shall be permitted unless such sections are contiguo~~e and shall not

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i	in the aggregate exceed twenty thousand acre6
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2. This Act, and the Act No. 194 of 1880, intituled '<An Act to -tim.

; encourage the settlement of that part of the Province of South Australia known as the Northern Territory, and to provide for the cultivation of sugarcane aud other tropical products therein," shall

: one Act. 3. The ; be incorporated, and be read and construed toge+,her, as forming

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