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shall be final and conclusive; provided always
that the said Board may, on the application of
any person, grant a re-hearing of any case de-
cided by it, if it shall think that justice requires
it; and, on such re-hearing, may reverse, alter,
or modify any previous decision in the same
case.

40. The Waste Land Board shall keep a re-
    cord of its proceedings in which record shall be
    entered a full and particular account of all
    business transacted by it, and a minute of the
    opinion of the members of the said Board in
    cases where they differ: which record shall be
    open to the inspection of any person at all rea-
    sonable hours, on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.
    for each inspection.

41. There shall also be kept in the office of
    the Waste Land Board in a convenient form for
    reference, every letter, report and communica-
    tion received, and a copy of every letter writ-
    ten, and order made by the said Board, and by
    the Chief Commissioner thereof, and a con-
    venient index shall be made thereto, all of
    which shall be open to inspection by any person
    at all reasonable times on payment of a fee of
    2s. 6d. for each inspection.

VIII.
Pasturage Regulations.

42. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land
    Board to grant licenses for the occupation of the
    Waste Lands of the Crown outside of the boun-
    daries of proclaimed Hundreds for the purpose
    of depasturing stock, and to require every per-
    son applying for such license, to deposit with
    the Waste Land Board the sum of 20l. which,
    so soon as the run applied for shall be s'ocked
    to its satisfaction, shall be returned to the appli-
    cant; but in the event of the applicant neglec-
    ting so to stock the said run within the space of
    six calendar months from the date of his appli-
    cation, or within such further time as the Waste
    Land Board may at the expiration thereof (if it
    shall see necessary) appoint, the sum so de-
    posited shall be forfeited to the Waste Land
    Board.

43. In case any person shall unlawfully in-
    trude upon, occupy, or take possession of any
    Crown Lands within the Province of Otago, and
    shall refuse or neglect to deliver up and quit
    possession of the same for the space of ten days
    after personal service upon him, or his agent or
    overseer, of a notice to quit the same, signed
    by any Commissioner of the Waste Land Board,
    it shall be lawful for such Waste Land Board to
    enter upon the said lands with such assistance
    as may be necessary and to take possession of
    the same on behalf of the Crown, together with
    any houses or other improvements which may
    have been made thereon and to deal with the
    same as it shall deem most expedient for the
    purpose of expelling such persons therefrom,
    and also to expel and remove all persons found
    trespassing thereon.

44. It shall be lawful for the Waste Land
    Board, for the purpose of carrying out these
    Regulations, to give any notice, make any claim
    or demand, and to make any entry, or to autho-
    rise any person lo make any entry which may
    be requisite or expedient to be given or made by
    or on behalf of her Majesty, her heirs or suc-
    cessors, for the purpose of compelling any
    occupier of any part of the Crown Lands within
    the Province of Otago to quit or deliver up the
    possession thereof, or to compel the performance
    of any contract in relation thereto, or to recover
    possession on non-performance of any contract,
    or to compel the payment of any srm of money
    which ought to be paid in respect thereof, and to
    do any other act, matter or thing which may be
    expedient on behalf of her Majesty, her heirs
    and successors, touching any of the said lands
    of the Crown; and every act, matter, or thing,
    done or authorised to be done by the said Board,
    shall be deemed and taken to be done on behalf
    of her Majesty, her heirs and successors, any
    law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwith-
    standing.

45. It shall also be lawful for the Waste Land
    Board, or for any person whom it shall for that
    purpose depute, to make distress for any rent
    which shall be due, in arrear or unpaid, from
    any lessee, tenant or occupier of any of the said
    Crown Lands, and the goods, chattels, and
    effects distrained to impound, sell, and dispose
    of, as in ordinary cases of rent in arrear.

46. It shall also be lawful for the Waste
    Land Board at its discretion to charge and re-
    ceive for the decision of any disputed question
    which it is authorised to determine by the pro-
    visions of these Regulations a fee not exceeding
    five pounds, to be paid by the party against
    whom its decision shall be made, to be recovered
    in a summary way.

47. All fees and sums of money, except as
    hereinafter provided, received by the Waste
    Land Board under the provisions of these Regu-
    lations, shall be accounted for and paid over
    quarterly to the Treasurer of the Waste Land
    Board.

IX.
Assessment on Stock depastured on Crown
Lands not being within the limits of a Hundred.

48. No person shall depasture cattle on or
    otherwise occupy any Waste Lands of the Crown
    without a license for that purpose in such form
    and subject to such conditions as the Superin-
    tendent by and with the advice and consent of
    the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago
    shall from time to time prescribe.

49. Any person depasturing cattle on any of
    the Waste Lands of the Crown not being within
    the limits of a Hundred, shall make or cause to
    be made to, and deposited with the Waste Land
    Board in the month of September in every year,
    a Return according to the form contained iu
    the Schedule hereto annexed marked A, of all
    such cattle in his possession on the first day of
    the said month of September. And if any such
    person shall fail to make or cause to be made
    such return at the time so appointed, or shall
    omit to deposit the same with the Waste Land
    Board in manner hereby required, he shall for-
    feit and pay for every such offence any sum not
    less than forty shillings nor more than twenty
    pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.
    And if any person shall knowingly make any
    fålse statement in any such Return he shall
    forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum
    not less than fifty pounds, nor more than one
    hundred pounds, to be recovered by action in
    the Supreme Court at the suit of the said Board.