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tendent, acting with the advice of his Ex-
ecutive 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 enter-
   tained unless made prior to the lapse of that
   period.

6. 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,
   and in some newspaper circulated in the
   Province, as early a day for hearing and de-
   termining the claims of the respective par-
   ties as shall be compatible with a sufficient
   notice.

7. It shall be the duty of the Commis-
   sioner and the Superintendent, acting with
   the advice of his Executive Council, to hear
   and determine all such objections and con-
   flicting applications, and also all disputes be-
   tween 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 ap-
   plications, 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 deci-
    sion in favor 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 re-
    ceive credit on account of rent reserved as
    under, to the extent of the deposit lodged by
    him, subject always to the following re-
    servations 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 favor in default of
    which the run will be declared by
    the Commissioner open to be ap-
    plied for by any other person.

12. If at any time during the currency
    of such occupation license, the
    land comprised 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 noti-
    fied that such reserve has been
    made.

13. If at any time during the currency
    of such occupation license, the
    land comprised 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 "Govern-
    ment Gazette."

14. 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 an-
    num.
    For the remaining seven years
    of occupation, at the rate of
    one penny per acre per an-
    num.

15. All rents shall become due on the
    first day of January in each year,
    and shall be payable in advance,
    and shall be paid to 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.

16. If any arrears of rent shall remain
    unsettled for a period of three
    months, the said license shall cease
    and determine, 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