that her husband may be entitled to acquire or may hold, and a married woman may also become a lessee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.
6. When applications are made on the same day for the same land, or part of the same land, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot.
7. The lessee must reside on the land selected within one year from the date of selection, and thereafter such residence shall be continuous for a period of ten years. The Land Board may dispense with residence if the lessee reside and continue to reside on lands contiguous to the lands held under lease.
8. The lessee shall put on the land comprised in his lease substantial improvements as under:—
(a.) Within one year from the date of his lease to a value equal to 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;
(b.) Within two years from the date of his lease to a value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;
(c.) And within six years from the date of his lease to a value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of the land;
and in addition thereto shall, within six years from the date of his lease, put substantial improvements of a permanent character to the value of £1 for every acre of first-class land, and 10s. per acre on second-class land.
Improvements existing on the land at the time of lease shall be deemed to be improvements made under this clause.
Substantial improvements of a permanent character mean and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or scrub, cultivation, planting gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or water-tanks, constructing water-races, sheep-dips, making embankments or protective works of any kind, or in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil, and include the erection of any building.
9. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon the land during the term, and stub all gorse not growing as fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious plants.
10. The lessee must take alternately white and green or root crops; and on the removal of the third crop the land must be sown down with good permanent English grasses and clovers, and be allowed to remain as pasture for at least two years from the harvesting of last crop, before being again cropped.
11. The lessee must not cut the English grass for hay or seed the first year of the course.
12. At all times during the lease the land must be so farmed that not less than one-third of the farm be maintained in permanent pasture.
13. The lessee must not burn any straw grown upon the land.
14. The lessee must once a year properly clean, clear from weeds, and keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses which now are or may be upon the land, and the Land Board shall have the power at any time to enter upon and make any drain through the land that it may deem necessary.
15. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any of the covenants hereinbefore mentioned relating to the trimming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and sweetbriar, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands to have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same from the lessee.
16. All buildings erected upon the land shall be kept in good order and repair.
17. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and assessments during the term.
18. The lease shall contain a clause providing that the lessee shall hold the land comprised in his lease subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893,” unless otherwise provided by these regulations.
Declaration on applying for a Lease under “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893.”
I, A. B., do solemnly and sincerely declare,—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.
2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” am applying for a lease of land forming part of the Cheviot Estate.
3. That I am acquiring such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.
4. That, including the lands now applied for, I am not the owner, tenant, or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in the whole 640 acres of first-class land.
   320 acres in case of a married woman.
   And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”
   Declared at , this day of , 189 , before me,
   A Justice of the Peace
   in and for the Colony of New Zealand.
   ALEX. WILLIS,
   Clerk of the Executive Council.
   Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village-homestead Settlements in Canterbury.
   GLASGOW, Governor.
   ORDER IN COUNCIL.
   At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of October, 1893.
   Present:
   His Excellency the Governor in Council.
   WHEREAS by the one hundred and sixty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto have been set apart under the said Act, and “The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893,” and declared open for lease as village settlements, and it is expedient to fix the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall be disposed of:
   Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby fix and prescribe the terms and conditions set forth in the Second Schedule hereto as those upon which the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way of lease in perpetuity, and doth hereby direct that the lands in the said village settlements shall be divided into village-homestead allotments only.
   This Order in Council shall take effect on the thirteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
   FIRST SCHEDULE.
   CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CHEVIOT COUNTY.
   FIRST-CLASS LAND.
   Section. Block. Area. Rent per Acre per Annum. Total Half-yearly Rent.
   SPOTSWOOD VILLAGE.
   Cheviot Survey District.
   A. R. P. £ s. d. £ s. d.
   3 IV. 74 0 0 0 8 0 14 16 0
   4 " 50 0 0 0 9 6 11 17 6
   HOMEVIEW VILLAGE.
   Mackenzie Suburbs.
   1 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   2 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   3 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   4 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   5 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   6 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   7 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   8 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   9 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   10 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   11 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   12 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   13 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   14 .. 4 2 0 0 12 0 1 7 0
   15 .. 4 2 0 0 12 0 1 7 0
   16 .. 5 0 0 0 12 0 1 10 0
   17 .. 5 0 0 0 12 0 1 10 0
   18 .. 5 0 0 0 12 0 1 10 0
   19 .. 5 0 0 0 12 0 1 10 0
   20 .. 5 0 0 0 12 0 1 10 0
   21 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   22 .. 10 0 0 0 12 0 3 0 0
   23 .. 16 0 0 0 12 0 4 16 0
   24 .. 16 0 0 0 12 0 4 16 0