AN ACT to amend "The Statistical Returns A.D. 1895. BE [24 October, 1895.] it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 This Act may be cited as "The Statistical Returns Amendment Short title. Act, 1895," 2 For the purposes of this Act "Statistical Collector" shall mean Interpretation. any officer selected for the time being for such an office by the Statistician or by the Mayor or Warden of any Municipality. 3 The Municipal Council of every Municipality shall, within Two Municipal months after the delivery of notice from the Statistician, furnish to the Councils to Statistician such statistics relating to the Municipality, on such forms furnish statistics. and in such manner, as the Governor in Council may direct. If such statistics be not so furnished within Two months after the delivery of the notice, the Governor in Council may order any person or persons to obtain and furnish as aforesaid the statistics so required, and give to such person or persons a certificate that such person or persons have done the same for and on behalf of the said Municipal Council; and upon publication of such certificate in the Gazette, such person or persons are hereby lawfully authorised and empowered to recover their reasonable costs, charges, and expenses of doing the same A.D..1895. Letters or packets free of postage. Acts to be read together. Statistical Returns Amendment. with full costs of suit from the Municipality as if such Municipal Council had duly authorised and directed such person or persons to obtain and furnish the said statistics on their behalf. All persons are required to supply correct information to the best of their knowledge and belief to the persons employed to collect such statistics on their applying therefor, and any one so required who refuses to supply or untruly supplies such information shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds. The term "Municipality" means the City of Hobart, the City of Launceston, and every Rural Municipality. Delivery of notice upon the Municipal Council shall be made by forwarding the same by post addressed to the Warden or Mayor, as the case may be, at his usual office. 4 All letters or packets containing statistical information transmitted by post within the Colony to or from the Statistician, or to or from any Statistical Collector, if marked on the outside with the words "Statistical Information Only," shall be delivered free of postage. 5 This Act and "The Statistical Returns Act, 1877," shall be read and construed together as one and the same Act. WILLIAM GRAHAME, JUN., AN ACT to further amend "The Crown Lands A.D. 1895. Act, 1890." BE [24 October, 1895.] it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: 1 This Act may be cited as "The Crown Lands Amendment Act, Short title. 1895." 2 In this Act, unless the context otherwise determines, "the said Interpretation. Act" shall mean "The Crown Lands Act, 1890." 54 Vict. No. 8. 3 For the purposes of this Act, "Rural Lands" as defined by the Lands to be said Act shall be classified as classified. 1. First class Agricultural Lands: II. Second class Lands. 4 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the said Second class land Act, the Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, offer for sale by auction, may be sold by in the manner provided by Part III. of the said Act, any Second class Land at the upset price of not less than Ten Shillings per acre, upon auction at upset price of 10s. A.D. 1895. Limit of Land to be purchased. Improvements to be effected on Land. Grant not to issue until improvements effected. Money to be roads. Crown Lands Amendment. the terms set forth in Schedule (1.), in lots of not less than Thirty acres and not more than Three hundred and twenty acres. Any Land sold under this Section shall be in addition to the quantity of Land authorised to be sold by Public Auction under the said Act in any one year. 5 No person shall be entitled to purchase and hold upon credit under the provisions of this Act at any one time more than Three hundred and twenty acres of Land. 6 At the expiration of One year from the date of contract of sale and purchase of any Land under this Act upon credit the purchaser of such Land shall begin to effect substantial improvements thereon, other than buildings, and shall continue in each year during the Five consecutive years thereafter to effect substantial improvements other than buildings on such Land of the value of One Shilling for every acre of the land so purchased by him, and in default of making such improvements such Land shall be liable to be forfeited to the Crown: Provided that every purchaser having expended more than One Shilling per acre in any year shall be entitled to credit against his liability in any subsequent year for such extra expenditure, and the total amount so to be expended in such improvements need not exceed the sum of Five Shillings per acre. 7 The purchaser of any Second class Land upon credit under this Act shall have effected substantial improvements on such Land to the value of Five Shillings an acre of the whole of the Land before a Grant Deed shall be issued therefor; and in default of such improvements having been made as aforesaid during the first Five years of the purchase, the Land, together with all improvements, shall become absolutely forfeited, and shall thereupon revert to the Crown. 8 The Governor in Council is hereby authorised to raise, in accordraised for making ance with the provisions of the Section One hundred and thirteen of the said Act, a sum of money not exceeding Five Shillings for every acre sold, for the purpose of making roads in the vicinity of any Land sold under this Act. Licences. Commissioner 9 It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands from may issue Timber time to time to issue to any person a Timber Licence, authorising such person to enter upon and obtain timber for sawmilling purposes from any Crown Land which may have been proclaimed by the Governor in Council a Timber Reserve under the said Act. Every such Licence shall be issued in respect of an area not exceeding Five hundred acres for a term not exceeding Five years, and shall be subject to such conditions and stipulations as the Governor in Council may from time to time by any regulation prescribe; but no such Licence shall be granted for the taking of timber within Five miles of a mining township. Regulations. 10 The Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations 1. To provide for the classification of Rural Lands as provided for by this Act, and for giving effect to the provisions of this Act: II. To prescribe the width of the tires of the wheels of vehicles so as to regulate the weight of any load to be carried upon such vehicle upon any road or track situate outside any |