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84. Every act, matter, or thing done by the
    Chief Commissioner under the authority of
    these Regulations shall be subject to revision
    by the Waste Land Board.

85. It shall be lawful for the Governor to
    pay, or cause to be paid out of the Public
    Treasury, or for the Superintendent to pay,
    or cause to be paid, out of the Provincial
    Treasury, the cost or charges of any suit, ac-
    tion, or other proceeding, which shall be
    brought by or against any Commissioner,
    Warden, Justice of the Peace, Constable or
    other person acting under the authority and
    in the execution of these Regulations.

86. In the construction of these Regula-
    tions the word Governor shall be taken to in-
    clude the Officer Administering the Govern-
    ment of New Zealand; and the word "Great
    Cattle" shall be construed to mean horned cat-
    tle, horses, mules, and asses, male and female,
    with their offspring, above six months of age;
    and the words "Small Cattle" shall be con-
    strued to mean sheep, goats, and swine, male
    and female, with their weaned offspring; and the
    word "Cattle" shall be construed to mean the
    whole of the aforesaid animals. For the pur-
    poses of these Rugulations every word im-
    porting the masculine gender shall extend and
    be applied to a female, as well as a male, ex-
    cept where the context excludes such con-
    struction.

XII.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

For the issue of Pasture and Timber Licenses
for the Occupation of Waste Lands of
the Crown outside Hundreds.

Issue of Depasturing License outside the
Boundaries of Proclaimed Hundreds.

87. Any person requiring a License for a
    Run on unoccupied portions of the Crown
    Lands shall lodge with the Waste Land
    Board a description of such Run (as near as
    may be in the form of Schedule E hereunto
    annexed) together with a tracing of the Land
    applied for.

88. If no objection exists to the applicant
    being allowed to occupy such Run, the Waste
    Land Board shall thereupon publicly notify
    that the Land specified in the application has
    been claimed as a Run, and the said Board
    shall at the same time publish in the Provin-
    cial Government Gazette, or in a local news-
    paper whenever it has the means of so doing,
    a description of the Run and the name of the
    person claiming the same.

89. No person shall be allowed to dispute
    the claim of another person to any Run des-
    cribed according to these Regulations, unless
    he shall do so within three months subsequent
    to the date of the publication above al-
    luded to.

90. From the date of the expiration of the
    above-named period of three months, the ap-
    plicant shall be required to pay rent for the

Run at the rate and in the manner here-
inafter mentioned; and he shall be required
to distinguish, by marked trees or posts, or
in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the
said Waste Land Board, such boundaries of
the Run as are not distinctly defined by
streams or other natural boundaries.

91. Any person who shall have a Run, or
    any considerable part thereof unoccupied by
    the requisite amount of stock for a period of
    six months after he shall have claimed the
    same, shall be liable to be regarded as having
    abandoned such Run or part thereof; and it
    shall be lawful for the Waste Land Board
    publicly to notify that such Run or part
    thereof has been so abandoned, and the same
    may thereupon be given into the occupation
    of any other applicant.

92. In estimating the sufficiency of stock
    for any Run applied for the Waste Land Board
    shall not allow for natural increase of stock
    upon the Run in any greater proportions than
    those set forth in the following scale:-

For any number of sheep up to
500, a Run may be granted
calculated to depasture any
number not exceeding - 5000 sheep

For every additional hundred
between 500 and 1000 for 500
" 1000 and 3000 " 400
" 3000 and 5000 " 200
" 5000 and 10,000 " 100
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Additional sheep.

And in no case shall a run be granted capable
of containing more than 25,000 sheep. In
estimating Runs for great cattle, one head of
such cattle shall be rated as six sheep.

93. In case of any question arising as to
    attempts to evade the foregoing Regulation,
    or to obtain unduly the benefits thereof, the
    Waste Land Board shall have power to decide
    such questions in such manner as may most
    effectually carry out the true spirit and mean-
    ing of such Regulation.

94. So soon as the occupant of any Run
    shall in the opinion of the Waste Land Board
    have sufficiently stocked the same he shall be
    entitled to a License to depasture stock upon it
    for fourteen years in the form of Schedule F.
    hereunto annexed, and subject to the follow-
    ing conditions :--

95. If at any time during the currency of
    such License, the land comprised there-
    in, or any part thereof, shall be inclu-
    ded within the boundaries of any Hun-
    dred, the said License shall cease and
    determine as to so much of the land as
    shall be included within such boundar-
    ies from and after a day to be named
    in the Proclamation by which such
    Hundred shall be constituted.

96. If at any time during the currency of
    such License, the land comprised there-
    in, or any part thereof, shall be sold by
    or on behalf of the Crown, then and in
    that case also the said license shall cease
    and determine as to so much of the land
    as shall be so sold as a'oresaid, from and