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GOVERNMENT OF PERAK.
Special Regulations for the Leasing of Waste Lands in Perak, Passed by the Perak State Council, on the 4th May, 1879,
and Amended on the 20th September, 1880.
His Highness the Regent in Council has been pleased to direct that waste lands in the State of Pêrak may, until further orders, be disposed of on the undermentioned conditions:
I.—As soon as possible after the receipt of the application, His Highness in Council will grant an Agreement for a Lease for 999 years to any person, whose proposal after examination shall be approved of.
II.-The Agreement and Lease will be subject to the conditions and covenants herein. after mentioned.
(a.) A premium of one dollar per sore to be paid, and the lands to bear an annual quit- ront of ten cents per acre, or the lands may be granted free of quit-rent upon the payment of two dollars per acre premium at the choice of the applicant.
(b.) One-third of the premium must be paid on the completion by the Regent of the Agreement for the Lease, and the remainder within twelve months from the date of first application for the land, or on completion of the Lease, if that should sooner take place.
(c.) The land must be selected within twelve months from the date of application. (d.) A bonâ fide commencement must be made within eighteen months from the date of the selection of the land, and the Lessee will be entitled to retain two mores of waste land for every acre which shall have been brought under cultivation within a term of 12 years from the date of his agreement for a Lease, Should there still remain a balance of uncal- tivated land to make up the total acreage named in the original agreement, after the deduct- ion of the cultivated and waste land to which the Lessee is entitled at the end of the 12 years, that balance of unoultivated land will revert to Government.
(e.) All minerals under or within the said lands are reserved by Government, together with the right to enter upon and resume such portions of land as may be necessary for examining or working the mines, upon payment of just compensation to the Lessee.
(ƒ) A belt of land, 50 yards deep, will be reserved along the banks of all navigable streams, rivers, and creeks; and along the sea-shore, ample provision, free of rent, being made for landing places and other purposes for the convenience of the neighbouring estates. Government will also reserve such portions as may seem advisable along the ridges of hills.
(g.) The Government reserves the right to resume such plots of land as may be necess- ary for public purposes, as Police, Revenue, or Telegraph Stations, and for roads, railways, tramways, canals, &c., upon payment of compensation for damages actually sustained by the Lessee.
(h.) The Government reserves the right to take, without payment, stone, clay, sand, and all other road-making materials for the construction and repair of neighbouring roads, bridges, &c., paying compensation for injury to private roads, growing crops, &c.
(i.) The right to take, or to authorise others to take timber, charoʊal, gums, and all other natural produce from unfelled forests and uncleared lands is reserved by Government. (j.) All expenses of survey, demarostion of boundaries, transfer and registration fees. and expenses of conveyance to be borne by the Lessee.
III.-All former Regulations for the sale of wastǝ lands in Pêrak are hereby with.
drawn.
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