An Act to amend the Seed Wheat Acts.

[Assented to, December 21st, 1899.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

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the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Seed Wheat Amendment Act, Short title and 1899," and shall be incorporated with "The Seed Wheat Act, 1896," incorporation. and the Acts incorporated therewith.

2. (a) Where the wheat crop for the present season of any Extension of time farmer, to whom wheat has been supplied, does, in the opinion of for payment. the District Council, not exceed an average of four bushels to the acre, the District Council interested may grant an extension of time not exceeding one year for the repayment of any money due and payable, or that may hereafter become due and payable, in respect of the seed wheat supplied.

(b) The Treasurer may exercise similar power in the case of any farmer not within any District Council to whom seed wheat has been supplied by him.

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.

[Assented to, December 21st, 1899.]

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

BE

the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

poration.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Mining on Private Property Short title and incorAmendment Act, 1899," and shall be incorporated with the "Mining on Private Property Act, 1888" (hereinafter called the principal

Act), and its amendments.

to copper, silver, and

2. The provisions of Part III. of the principal Act, relating to Extension of Part III. compulsory mining leases, shall extend to mining leases for copper, other metals. silver, or other metals, as well as to mining leases for gold.

3. Mining leases hereafter granted under Part III. of the princi- Leases. pal Act shall be either

1. Gold leases, or

11. Mineral leases.

4. (a) Gold leases shall authorise the lessee to mine for gold, Classes of leases. copper, silver, and other metals.

(b) Mineral leases shall authorise the lessee to mine for all metals except gold.

5. A gold lease may include any area not more than twenty acres, Area. and a mineral lease may include any area not exceeding forty acres.

Application.

Forms.

Service of notices.

The Mining on Private Property Amendment Act.-1899.

6. Every application for a compulsory mining lease shall state whether it is for a gold lease or a mineral lease.

7. Until new forms, prescribed by regulation, are made the forms E, F, G, and H, in the appendix to the regulations in the Schedule to the principal Act shall be amended so as to give effect to this Act.

8. Every notice required to be given or served under the principal or any amending Act may be given or served

(a) Where the person to whom the notice is to be given or upon whom the notice is to be served does not reside in South Australia, by leaving such notice with some known agent of such person, or by posting the notice to such person at his last known or usual place of abode:

(b) Where the residence or address of the person to whom the notice is to be given or upon whom the notice is to be served is unknown, by delivering such notice to the occupier of the land in question, or if there is no such occupier then by advertisement published in such newspapers as the Master of the Supreme Court may in each case direct.

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.