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3. The Commissioner shall publish without
   delay, in the Government Gazette of the Pro-
   vince of Nelson, the description of every run
   thus applied for, together with the name of
   the applicant, and the amount paid in deposit.
4. The Commissioner and the Superintend-
   ent, acting with the advice of his Executive
   Council, shall have power to hear and decide
   on all applications, and also all objections
   thereto, as well as all disputes in respect of
   conflicting applications.
5. All objections must be lodged before the
   Commissioner within three months after the
   date of the publication above referred to, and
   the ground of objection must be stated in
   writing; and no objection shall be entertained
   unless made prior to the lapse of that period.
6. In the event of any objection being duly
   laid before the Commissioner within the pre-
   scribed time, it shall be his duty to appoint by
   publication in the said Gazette, and in some
   newspaper circulated in the province, as early
   a day for hearing and determining the claims
   of the respective parties as shall be compatible
   with a sufficient notice.
7. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner
   and the Superintendent, acting with the advice
   of his Executive Council, to hear and deter-
   mine all such objections and conflicting appli-
   cations, and also all disputes between holders
   of pasture occupation licenses, regarding the
   boundaries of their respective runs, in open
   court.
8. All applications made upon the same day
   shall be deemed to be simultaneous applica-
   tions, and the priority thereof shall be decided
   by lot.
9. The Commissioner may at any time re-
   quire the holder of a license to distinguish the
   boundaries of his run by marked trees or
   posts, or otherwise, when they are not dis-
   tinctly marked by nature.
10. So soon as practicable after the decision
    in favour of any applicant for a run, an occu-
    pation license, in the form of Schedule B, to
    depasture stock thereon for fourteen years,
    shall be issued to the applicant, who shall pay
    for such license the sum of five pounds sterling,
    and shall be entitled to receive credit on ac-
    count of rent reserved as under, to the extent
    of the deposit lodged by him, subject always
    to the following reservations and conditions:—
11. No license whatever shall be issued until
    the approximate accuracy of the esti-
    mated acreage of the run be certified to
    the satisfaction of the Commissioner,
    and endorsed on a plan thereof, which
    plan shall exhibit as nearly as may be
    the boundaries of the run, and shall be
    attached to the license. The applicant
    is bound to obtain such certificate and
    plan at his own expense, and to lodge

the same with the Commissioner within
nine months from the date of the de-
cision in his favour, in default of which
the run will be declared by the Com-
missioner open to be applied for by any
other person.
2. If at any time during the currency of
such occupation license, the land com-
prised therein, or any part thereof,
shall become included within the boun-
daries of any reserve, then the said oc-
cupation license shall cease and deter-
mine as to the land included within
such boundaries, from and after the
day on which it shall be notified that
such reserve has been made.
3. If at any time during the currency of
such occupation license, the land com-
prised therein, or any part thereof,
shall be sold by or on behalf of the
Crown, in that case also the said license
shall cease and determine over so much
of the land as shall have been sold
from and after three months' notice of
such sale in the said Government Ga-
zette.
4. Rent for a run shall be computed upon
the acreage, according to the following
uniform rates, viz.:—
For the first seven years of occupa-
tion, at the rate of one-halfpenny
per acre per annum.
For the remaining seven years of oc-
cupation, at the rate of one penny
per acre per annum.
5. All rents shall become due on the first
day of January in each year, and shall
be payable in the Land Commissioner during
the month of January in each year:
provided that for licenses issued after
the 30th June in any year, only half-
a-year's rent shall be chargeable until
the next ensuing month of January.
6. If any arrears of rent shall remain un-
settled for a period of three months,
the said license shall cease and deter-
mine, and the Land Commissioner for
the district is thereupon required to
notify in the said Government Gazette,
and some newspaper published within
the province, the forfeiture of such
license, and to let the run to which it
relates by public auction, whereof one
month's notice shall be given, to the
highest bidder, for a term of fourteen
years, subject to the conditions of these
regulations: provided always that the
period of three months above referred
to may be extended to six months, in
case of the death of the run-holder.
7. Within twelve months after the issue of