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A.—so.

Public Works.

Natives under Native Land Court certificate of title or under memorial of ownership, it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time hereafter to take and lay off for public purposes one or more line or lines of road through the said land : 6 Provided that the total quantity of land which may be taken, inclusive of any already taken, for such line or lines of road shall not exceed one-twentieth part of the whole. (2.) The Governor may at any time, by indorsement on the Crown grant, or on a subsequent or other instrument of title, or by deed, release 10 the land the subject of such right therefrom or from any part thereof. 94. But there shall not be taken under the authority of the lastpreceding section any land occupied by any pa, village, or cultivation, or any buildings, gardens, orchards, plantations, or any burial or ornamental grounds, without the previous consent of the Governor in Council. 15 95? The powers given by section ninety-three hereof as to public roads shall cease, — (a) As to land the subject of a grant or certificate issued under " The Native Land Court Act, 1886," or any Act passed in amendment thereof or substitution therefor, at the end 20 of fifteen years from the date of such grant or certificate ; (b.) As to grants issued under any Act repealed by " The Native Land Court Act, 1886," at the time when such power would have ceased under such repealed Act. 96. (1.) Whenever any lines of road are surveyed and laid off on 25 or over any Native land, under the direction of the Surveyor-General, the site of such road shall be deemed to be a road dedicated to the public, and shall vest in His Majesty. (2.) When any road is laid off along the boundary between lane' owned by Natives and land owned by Europeans, such road shall be 30 taken equally from both such lands where practicable. PART V. Surveys. 97. (1.) For all the purposes of this Act the Minister for Public Works, the Minister of Lands, the Surveyor-General or his deputy, or 35 any local authority, or any person authorised either specially or generally by any such person or authority,— (a.) May enter and re-enter from time to time during the daytime upon any land, with such assistants as he thinks fit, for the purpose of making any survey which he is authorised 40 to make ; (b.) May affix or set up thereon trigonometrical stations, survey pegs, marks, or poles, and the same from time to time alter, remove, inspect, and repair ; ((:.) May dig and bore into the land so as to ascertain the nature 45 of the soil and set out the lines of any works thereon ; (d.) May do all things necessary for such survey in accordance with existing regulations, or for any inspection, repair, or alteration thereof.

Limit of quantity.

Exception of cultivations, &c. 1894, No. 42, sec. 93

Within what time right must be exercised. Ibid, sec. 94

Laying-off of roads by SurveyorGeneral. Ibid, sec. 95

; Powers of entry on , lands, &c, for survey purposes. Ibid, sec. 96