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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 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
   to hear and determine all such objections and
   conflicting applications, and also all disputes
   between holders of pasture occupation licences,
   regarding the boundaries of their respective
   runs, in open court, to be held, if required by
   all the parties concerned therein, in the district
   where the run in dispute is situated.

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
   require 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
    occupation license, in the form of Schedule
    B, to depasture stock thereon for four-
    teen years, shall be issued to the appli-
    cant, who shall pay for such license the sum
    of five pounds sterling, and shall be entitled
    to receive credit on account of rent, reserved
    as under, to the extent of the deposit lodged
    by him, subject always to the following reser-
    vations and conditions:—

11. No license whatever shall be issued
    until the approximate accuracy of the
    estimated 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 decision in his favour, in de-
    fault of which the run will be declared by

the Commissioner 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 boundaries of
   any reserve, then the said occupation
   license shall cease and determine 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 Gazette.

4. Rent for a run shall be computed
   upon the acreage according to the following
   uniform rates, viz.—

For the first seven years of occupation,
at the rate of one half-penny per acre
per annum.

For the remaining seven years of occupa-
tion, at the rate of one penny per
acre per annum.

5. All rents shall become due on the 31st
   of December in each year, and shall be paid
   to the Land Commissioner of the district
   where the runs are situated, during the
   month of January following: Provided that
   for licenses issued after the 30th of June
   in any year, only half a year's rent shall be
   chargeable in 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 determine, and the
   Land Commissioner for the district is there-
   upon required to notify in the said Government
   Gazette 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 a license, the holder thereof shall be
   required to place on the run at least one
   breeding ewe for every twenty acres, or else
   one cow for every one hundred and twenty
   acres; and to maintain at least that number
   of breeding stock upon the run during the
   whole period of his occupancy. Should the
   holder of a license not comply with this con-
   dition, his deposit shall be absolutely for-