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8. Every certificate of title to be granted under the authority of this Act shall contain a restriction to the effect that the land shall be absolutely inalienable except by way of exchange, or a lease for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, amongst the persons only or their descendants who have been found to be entitled. 9. The Court shall have power to determine inheritance, exchanges, and subdivisions of any part or parts of the land set apart as aforesaid or which may hereafter be set apart; and in cases where it may appear, or be made to appear to the said Court on the application of any person concerned, that the allocation made in favour of any person or persons, in consequence of the uncertainty of the age of any individual, is in excess of the quantity such person or persons should have received, the Court is authorised to reduce the area allotted to a quantity commensurate with the acreage which such person would have received had his age been accurately known at the time the award was made — that is to say, on the basis of fifty acres each in the case of adults, and twenty acres each for non-adults under fourteen years old, allotted to all persons found to be entitled to the territory south of the northern boundary of the Province of Canterbury, and on the basis of forty acres each in the case of adults, and twenty acres each in case of non-adults under fourteen years old, allotted to all persons found to be entitled in the Provinces of Nelson and Marlborough, saving and excepting in the case of Whakapoai in the Province of Nelson, which for this purpose shall be treated as if south of the northern boundary of Canterbury. Any surplus land which may be created through any reduction made by the Court shall revert to the Crown as fully and effectually as if such surplus land was duly reconveyed. 10. The Governor is authorised; after consultation with the Natives entitled to any of the sections or parcels of land allotted as aforesaid, or which may be allotted hereafter, to lease any of such lands on behalf of the Natives concerned to Europeans for any period not exceeding twenty-one years for possession, and not for reversion, at the best improved rent obtainable at the time, subject to the payment of the value of any timber standing or growing thereon, the proceeds and rents to be paid and divided amongst the persons to whom such lands have been specially allotted in proportion to their respective acreage. 11. The Governor may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations for any purpose which may be deemed expedient or necessary in connection with carrying out any of the provisions of this Act, and such regulations when published in the New Zealand Gazette shall have the force of law. Approximate Cnst of Paper.- -Preparation, not ; printing (1,475 copies), £2 lis.

By Authority: John IVTackay, Government Printer, Wellington.— 1905,

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