Pastoral Leases Act 1867 (SA)

ANNO TRICESTMO PRIM0

VICTORIAE REGIN&j

A. D. 1867,

No. 25.

An Act to Remit the Payment of R e ~ t to certain persons, who on the

sixteenth day of Mhrch, 1866, held rights to Pastoral Lemes

of certain portions of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the

Province o f South Australia.

[Assented to, 19th December, 1867.1

HEREAS it is expedient to remit the payment of rent as here- Preamble .

W inafter mentioned to certain pe$wms, who on the sixteenth

day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, held rights

to pastoral leases of certain portions of the waste lands of the Crown in the Province of South Australia-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor-in-Chief 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,

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as follows:

1. Such of those persons who on the sixteenth day of March, one Remidon d rent to

thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, held rights to pastoral leases	ing rights to pastoral
oertain persons hold-
of any portions of the waste lands of the Crown in the said Province	learn.
included in the Districts A, B, or C, more particularly described in
the First Schedule of a certain Bill which has, during the present
Session of Parliament, been passed by both Houses, and now awaits the assent of the Governor on behalf of Her Majesty, which Bill is intitded a An Act to amend the laws relating to the leasing for pastoral purposes of certain waste lands of the Crown in the Province of South Australia, and for other purposes," as shall elect to avail themselves of the benefits of the said Act, shall be entitled to have remitted to them, and the Governor in Executive Council shall remit to them accordingly (in addition to any remission o f rent to which any

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of such persons are entitled under the twenty-first section of the said Act), the amount of rent and assessment next mentioned, that i to

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I. If the lands of which such persons held @$a: ta leases as

aforesag are situate in District A, aa described in the said First Schedule to the said Bill, six months' r a t and assess- ment, according to the rate of such rent and awessment payable by such person under such rights to leases:

11. If such lands arq sitqate in Diqwt B twelve months' rent and assessment, according to the rate aforesaid: And

rxr, If su& lands are situate in District C eighteen months' rent

snd aasehment, according to the rate aforesaid.

Provided that if lands situate in more than one district are held under the same right to a lease, sych remission shall be calculated according to the number of square miles in each district, and the respective rates of mmission before-mentioned: Provided also, that

no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this Act in respect of

any right to a lease as aforesafd, which has lapsed or expired since

the sixteenth day of March, one' thousand eight hundred and sixty-

nix.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby sasseat to

this Act.

D. DALY, Governor.