may from time to time alter such rules. And all such Rules, and
all alterations thereof, shall be submitted to the Governor in Council,
and upon being approved of, shall be published in the "Government
Gazette" of the Colony, and when so published shall have the force
of law.

Governor to fix sala-
ries of Commissioners
and Assistant Com-
missioners.

Commissioners to hear
and determine Old
Land Claims and
examine and dispose
of grants under same
and Pre-emptive
Claims.

May direct Assistant
Commissioners to ex-
amine into and report
as to any grant or
claim.

Reports to be de-
livered to and guide
Commissioners.

Objections to be heard
on payment of fees.

Appeal in cases of
parties aggrieved.

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8. The Governor shall fix the salaries to be paid to the Comis-
   sioners and Assistant-Commissioners.

II. POWERS OF COMMISSIONERS, SUBJECTS OF INQUIRY, AND MODE OF
INVESTIGATION.

9. The Commissioners shall have power according to the pro-
   visions of this Act, to hear and determine all claims which might
   have been heard, examined, and reported on under the provisions of
   the said recited Ordinances, Session 1, No 2, Session 3, No 3, and
   all claims whatsoever to land or compensation arising out of dealings
   with the aboriginal inhabitants of the Colony, prior to the establish-
   ment of British sovereignty, or since that period, with the sanction
   of the Government, or under the Proclamations issued by Governor
   Fitzroy, dated respectively the 26th of March, 1844, and the 10th
   of October, 1844, and to examine and determine all questions rela-
   ting to Grants issued in respect of the same, subject to the exceptions
   and provisions hereinafter contained.

10. The Commissioners may direct any Assistant Commissioner
    to examine into and report as to the circumstances relating to any
    claim to be investigated under this Act, or as to the practicability of
    giving possossion of any land to be given in right of any Grant, and
    as to any other matter or thing to be enquired of under this Act; and
    every such Assistant Commissioner may examine and report accor-
    dingly; and in making such examination and report the Assistant
    Commissioners shall proceed according to such directions as shall be
    laid down in that behalf by the Commissioners in accordance with
    the provisions of this Act.

11. All reports by Assistant Commissioners shall be returned
    to the Commissioners, and in finally hearing and deciding upon claims,
    the Commissioners may proceed upon such reports in like manner
    as if such examination had taken place before the Commissioners
    themselves.

12. Any persons objecting to any claims or Grants to be investi-
    gated or examined under this Act, may appear and have such ob-
    jections heard by the Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners,
    on payment of the fees prescribed in Schedule A to this Act an-
    nexed.

13. Where any claimant, grantee, or other person interested
    in any claim or Grant which shall be examined by the Commissioners,
    shall consider himself aggrieved by any decision of the Commis-
    sioners, he may within one calendar month after such decision, appeal
    to any Judge of the Supreme Court upon a case, in writing, to be
    stated or settled by the Commissioners, a copy of which case may
    be taken by the appellant, upon which case the Judge shall certify
    his opinion in writing to the Commissioners, and the Commissioners
    shall be bound to follow such opinion, and agreeably to such opinion,
    shall reverse alter or confirm their decision.