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to the adjoining owner or owners at such quitrent as 

 the governor shall decide, or as shall be decided upon 

 by three arbitrators." 



The Agricultural Immigrants' Land Act, being 

 No. 16 of 1877, provides '^ that the governor may from 

 time to time set aside suitable areas for disposal under 

 this act ; the immigrant not to be allowed to lease more 

 than 500 acres, the term to be for ten years, at the rate 

 of Is. per acre per annum. ^'' 



'^ The rent to be payable on the expiration of each 

 year.'' 



" The lessee is bound to erect on the land a dwelling- 

 house of tlie value of £20 before the expiration of 

 two years, and afterwards to cultivate one acre out of 

 every ten.'* 



" After the tenth annual payment, and the expenses of 

 survey and title, he receives a grant on perpetual quit- 

 rent tenure, subject to an annual quitrent of 1 per cent, 

 on the ten years' rental." 



" He can on allotment pay the whole ten years' rent 

 down, or at any time subsequently the remaining por- 

 tion, and receive title at once, but he cannot sell the 

 grant till after the expiration of five years from its first 

 allotment." 



" On failure of the lessee complying with any of the 

 above conditions, the government can declare such 



