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GOVERNMENT LICENSE FOR A STATION AND CHARGE ON STOCK
CHARGE FOR A CATTLE STATION.
A Cattle Station is charged for
every twenty five square miles £10 - 0 - 0
& is Calculated to run 640 head
of Cattle charged at three half
pence, per head. 4 - 0 - 0
Yearly cost of a Cattle run for
license & assessment £14 - 0 - 0
If a greater number of Cattle are run upon a Station than 640 head the extra number are charged at three half pence per head.
BY the Government Regulations which came in force in 1846. the Licence for a Station was charged according to the number of sheep grazing on the Station. Thus a Station grazing 5000 Sheep was charged Ten Pounds above that number to ten thousand the license [licence] was charged a double or Twenty Pound license above ten to fifteen thousand a treble license or Thirty Pounds & so on, besides which the usual assessment of one penny Yearly on Sheep, three pence per head on Cattle & six pence per head on horses was charged.
In later Regulations Government Charged £2.10 two pounds ten shillings for the license of every thousand sheep also a [indecipherable] of one half penny on each Sheep -
OCCUPATION BEYOND THE SETTLED DISTRICTS
ORDER IN COUNCIL 9TH MARCH 1847.
Leases may be granted for runs for not more than fourteen years for pastoral purposes only, with permission however to cultivate sufficiently for domestic consumption. But the right of the Crown to enter upon such lands for any public purpose is not to be hereby Contravened.
Of sheep or Cattle the run is estimated to Carry.[?] Each run to be capable of not less than 4000 Sheep or a proportionate number of Cattle, & such a run to be let at not less than £10 - per annum with £2 - for every additional thousand sheep - The estimate to be made by arbitration.