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tation should result in serious loss to the 

 occupiers, in which case the G-overnor- 

 General may authorize such occupiers to 

 retain the ground thus in excess. 



Sub-section 3. — In case there exist weighty 

 reasons for so doing the Governor-General 

 may extend, to be operative in the whole 

 Province or in part thereof, the period of 

 one year prescribed in Article 22. 



Sub-section 4. — If the areas referred to in 

 Sub-section 1 (4) of the present article be 

 comprised within the areas specified in 

 Sub-section 3 of Article 53, and, as re- 

 gards their occupation, the conditions of 

 such Sub-section 1 be fulfilled such lands 

 may be expropriated and the occupiers 

 granted ground elsewhere of a corre- 

 sponding value. 



Pkopeety Tax in Eespect of Native Ownership. 

 Art. 25. — Natives occupying lands in a legiti- 

 mate manner, i.e., in accordance with the provi- 

 sions of Articles 15 and 24, shall be exempt 

 from the payment of the Property Tax in 

 respect of such ground. 



Sub-section. — This tax shall only be due after 

 a native has obtained full ownership rights 

 to the land occupied by him. 



