for four months, shall be considered as having abandoned such run, or part thereof, which shall thereupon be given into the occupation of the first applicant for it.

14. No person shall be entitled to dispute the claim of another person to any run described according to these regulations, unless the matter be brought before the Commissioner of Crown Lands, within three months after the publication in the Government Gazette of the name of the person claiming the run, and of the description of the run.

15. It shall be in the power of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at any time to make such alterations in the boundaries of runs, as he may, upon enquiry, judge to be just and expedient.

16. The Crown reserves to itself the power of, at any time including within a hundred, or disposing by sale of any portion of Crown Land which may be claimed as a run, and held by a licensed occupant.

17. Such sale of a portion of a run will be conducted in accordance with the ordinary rules, regulating the sale of waste lands of the Crown, and the purchaser of any portion of a run will be entitled to a right of pasturage in the neighbourhood of his station, in the proportion of sixteen head of great cattle or one hundred head of small cattle for every eighty acres of such purchased land.

18. Every occupant of land granted from the Crown and not included in a hundred, will be entitled to the same privilege of running cattle in the same proportion upon the waste lands of the Crown in his vicinity; excepting in those cases where such waste land are held by other persons as runs, under lease or license from the Government.

19. Such runs as the Government has been in the habit of offering to public competition, or as may possess any peculiar value from being in the immediate vicinity of occupied land, will be, as heretofore, let by public auction, from year to year.

20. Every proper facility will be afforded by the Government to persons desirous of purchasing homesteads on their runs, but it will not undertake to survey and offer for sale any smaller block than fifty acres of land.

21. Return of the number of acres held under Crown Grants are only required, (except in the case of Proclaimed Hundreds,) from parties desirous of occupying defined runs.

Common of Pasturage within the Limits of a Hundred.

22. Whenever the Governor shall, by Proclamation duly made, divide any County or settled portion of the Province into Hundreds, and declare the boundaries thereof, the right of Pasturage on the Waste Lands of the Crown comprised within those boundaries, and the apportionment of the same, will be granted exclusively to the occupants of land held under Grants from the Crown within the Hundred, to the New Zealand Fencibles and their Officers, to the Natives and Half-Castes occupying land within the Hundred, with permission of the Government.

23. A Depasturing License will be granted to every such occupant who shall apply for the same to the Commissioner of Crown Lands on or before the 1st day of January, in each year, provided that he shall first deposit with that Officer a return of the number of acres held under Crown Grants (or in the case of New Zealand Fencibles, Natives and Half-Castes, held by permission of the Crown) occupied by him in every Hundred for which he claims such License, such return to be in the form of Schedule D. hereunto annexed.

24. Every such License will commence and take effect on the 1st day of January, and will continue in force for one year.

25. For every such License there shall be paid the sum of 10s. 6d.

26. As soon as conveniently may be after the said 1st day of January, in each year, the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall publish in the Government Gazette, a list of the persons to whom, and the names of the Hundred in respect of which, such Licenses shall have been granted.

27. The persons whose names shall be comprised in such list shall have the exclusive right of Pasturage on the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Hundred in respect of which they shall hold such License.

28. As soon as conveniently may be after the publication of such list, the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall, in each Hundred, call a meeting of such persons for the purpose of electing from amongst themselves, by a majority of votes, three persons (to be called Wardens), who shall have the regulation and apportionment, for the ensuing year, of the right of pasturage within the Hundred, as hereinafter provided.

29. At every such meeting the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall preside, and in case of an equality of votes shall have a casting vote.

30. No Member at such Meeting shall be entitled to more than one vote.

31. The persons so to be elected shall have the power, and shall forthwith proceed to compute the quantity of cattle capable of being depastured on the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Hundred, to determine the disposition of Cattle to be depastured therein, and to apportion the number of great Cattle and small Cattle which may be depastured for the ensuing year by every person holding such License as aforesaid, regard being had to the quantity of land occupied by each such person, or to the price or sum per acre which may have been paid for the same into the Public Treasury, or to such other general rule as the persons so elected may deem better suited to the circumstances of the case or to the condition of the Hundred.

32. The regulations so to be made shall be agreed to by two at least of the persons so to be elected, and a copy of the same, under their hands, shall be furnished to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, for publication in the Government Gazette.