Page images
PDF
EPUB
[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

An Act to apply, out of the General Revenue, the sum of
Four Hundred Thousand Pounds to the Service

BE

of the Year ending the Thirtieth day of June,
one thousand nine hundred.

[Assented to, November 1st, 1899.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1. Out of the General Revenue of South Australia there shall be issued and applied, from time to time, for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred, any sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of Four Hundred Thousand Pounds.

Issue and application of £400,000.

Estimates.

2. No payments for any establishment or service shall be made Payments not to out of the said sum in excess of the rates voted for similar exceed last year's establishments or services on the Estimates for the year ended the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, except so far as such rates are affected by the "Civil Exception. Service Act, 1874," or by departmental regulations.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill.

TENNYSON, Governor.

Adelaide By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, Government Printer, North Terrace.

[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

An Act to amend the Northern Territory Land Laws. [Assented to, November 22nd, 1899.]

BE

E it Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

PART I.
PRELIMINARY.

PART I.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Northern Short title and Territory Land Act, 1899," and, except so far as inconsistent incorporation. therewith, shall be incorporated and read as one with "The Northern Territory Crown Lands Act, 1890," hereinafter called

[blocks in formation]

PART

v.-Occupation by Outgoing Lessee and Possession by

Division.

Incoming Lessee:

PART VI.

Term, rent, and area.
N.T. Gold Mining

Act, 1873, sec. 49 as
to term.

The Gold Dredging Act.-1899.

4. Every lease shall be for a term of twenty-one years, and shall reserve a rental of Six Pence per acre, payable yearly in advance, and a royalty of Six Pence in the Pound sterling of the net annual profits derived by the lessee from the leased lands after allowing, in Sec. 51, sub-sec. 4 as addition to working expenses, five per centum on the capital represented by machinery working during the year on the leased lands, and may include an area of not exceeding five thousand acres.

Mining Act, 1893,

to rent and royalty.

Covenants and conditions.

Mining Act, 1893, sec. 52.

Ib., sub-sec. II.

Ib., sub-sec. III.

Ib., sub-sec. IV.

Ib., sub-sec. v.

Ib., see end of section.

Applications for leases.

Regulations.

5. Every lease shall contain the following covenants by the lessee: 1. That he will pay the rent and royalty reserved by the lease as and when the same shall become due:

11. That he will not, without the permission in writing of the
Government Resident, use the leased lands for any other
purpose than that of dredging for gold:

III. That he will, during the term of the lease, after the first
twelve months, keep continuously employed in dredging
for gold upon the leased lands not less than one man for
every five acres of such lands, or in the alternative will
keep so continuously employed, fully manned, machinery
of a value of not less than Three Thousand Pounds
for every two thousand acres of land in the lease; and
that he will, whenever required by the Government
Resident, furnish him with satisfactory evidence that
such number of men have been and are so employed:
IV. That he will, annually, on such dates as shall be fixed in the
lease, furnish statements of all expenses incurred in
dredging for gold and of all proceeds derived from such
dredging.

And also shall contain-

(a) Such reservations and such other covenants and conditions as may be prescribed:

(b) A proviso that the lease shall be liable to forfeiture on breach or non-compliance with any covenant or condition in the lease.

6. Applications for leases shall be made to the Minister or to the Government Resident, and shall be accompanied by the first year's rent, and shall be considered in order of priority. In the event of simultaneous applications the order of priority shall be decided by lot.

7. The Government Resident may make regulations for all or any of the following matters, namely:

1. For prescribing forms:

II. For prescribing the reservations, covenants, and conditions to be inserted in leases:

III. For prescribing the procedure for the forfeiture of leases:

IV. For

« EelmineJätka »