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71. The Commissioner of Crown Lands will determine the extent of land to which such license shall give a right of occupancy, and the licenses are only to have effect within the district specified in them. Provided that the land to be comprised in any one license shall in no case exceed ten acres.

72. No fresh applicant for a license will be permitted injuriously to interfere with a portion of forest upon which any other person may have expended capital and labour.

73. In the event of any occupant of a portion of forest, upon which he may have expended any considerable sum in the formation of roads or improvements to facilitate the removal of timber, wishing to resign his license, he will, if in the consideration of the Commissioner he should be regarded as having established a claim to this indulgence, be permitted to transfer his license and right of pre-occupancy to such person as he may select.

74. All applicants for timber licenses must address their applications to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, stating their names and residences in full.

75. When the application has been approved, it will be forwarded to the Provincial Treasurer, by whom, upon payment of the required fee, the license will be issued.

76. No person will be allowed to cut or remove timber, on or from the Crown lands which have been reserved by Government for the public use.

77. The form of timber license will be according to Schedule hereunto annexed.

LICENSED OCCUPATION OF PASTURE LANDS IN THE PROVINCE OF NELSON.

78. All persons requiring occupation licenses for unoccupied portions of pasture lands in the Province of Nelson, shall lodge with the Land Commissioner of the district in which such run is situated, a description thereof, in form or to the effect of Schedule A., and at the time of lodging such description, pay to the Commissioner a cash deposit, according to the following scale, viz.:—

£15 for runs described as under 10,000 acres.

£30 for runs described as under 20,000 acres.

£50 for runs described as over 20,000 acres.

79. All applications which shall have been regularly made, and in respect of which the required deposit shall have been paid, shall be immediately filed and registered in the Commissioner's office; and the register of all such applications shall be open to public inspection within office hours.

80. The Commissioner shall publish without delay, in the Government Gazette of the Province of Nelson, the description of every run thus applied for, together with the name of the applicant, and the amount paid in deposit.

81. The Commissioner and the Superintendent shall have power to hear and decide on all applications, and also all applications thereto, as well as all disputes in respect of conflicting applications.

82. All objections must be lodged with 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.

83. In the event of any objection being duly laid before the Commissioner within the prescribed time, it shall be his duty to appoint by publication in the said Gazette, 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.

84. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent and the Commissioner to hear and determine all such objections and conflicting applications, and also all disputes between holders of pasture occupation licenses, regarding the boundaries of their respective runs, in open court.

85. All applications made upon the same day shall be deemed to be simultaneous applications, and the priority thereof shall be decided by lot.

86. 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 distinctly marked by nature.

87. 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 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 account of rent reserved as under, to the extent of the deposit lodged by him, subject always to the following reservations and conditions:—

88. No license whatever shall be issued until the approximate acreage 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 default of which