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(ii.) For the erection, maintenance, and regulation of public pounds, and for regulating the impounding of cattle, and the levying of pound fees, and of other fees and charges in connection with the impounding of cattle. (iii.) For the erection and maintenance of party and other boundary fences, (including fences between lands over which the Native title has, and adjacent lands over which it has not, been extinguished) and for defining and prescribing the rights, duties, and liabilities of all owners antl occupiers of land, and other persons, in relation to such erection and maintenance, and to the cost thereof, aud otherwise iu relation thereto. (iv.) For the branding or marking of cattle, in order to the proof of the ownership thereof, and for the prevention of fraud in relation to the branding or marking of cattle, and for the prevention of larceny of cattle, or of the flesh, hides, or skins thereof. (v.) For the prevention of contagious aud infectious diseases amongst cattle, and for prohibiting or restricting the introduction or removal from place to place of infected cattle, and enforcing the cure, cleansing, or destruction of infected cattle. (vi.) For preventing the growth and spread of thistles, and other noxious weeds. (vii.) For ascertaining, prescribing, and providing for the observance and enforcement of the rights, duties, and liabilities, amougst themselves, of tribes, communities, or individuals of the Native Race, in relation to the use, occupation, and receipt of the profits of lands and hereditaments. (viii.) For the prevention of bush and other fires, and the restraint of persons firing bush, scrub, grass, rubbish, or other materials, to the danger of life or property. (ix.) For the suppression of the nuisance of dogs wandering at large, and for defining and prescribing the rights, duties, and liabilities of the owners of dogs, and of all other persons, in relation to dogs wandering at large. (x.) For enforcing the cleansing of houses and other buildings in a dirty and unwholesome istate. (xi.) For the suppression of common nuisances. (xii.) For providing for the health and personal convenience of the inhabitants of any Native Village, Pa, or assemblage of houses. (xiii.) For the protection of public property, and the common property of tribes or communities. (xiv.) For the prevention of drunkenness. (xv.) For the sale, removal, and disposal of spirituous and fermented liquors, and for restriction or prohibition of such sale, removal and disposal. (xvi.) For the suppression of injurious Native customs, and for the substitution of remedies and punishments for injuries in cases in which compensation is now sought by means of such customs. 2. The Bye-laws so drawn up shall then be transmitted to the Governor for his approval. 3. Such of them as may be approved by the Governor in Council will be proclaimed by the Governor as having force within the district to which they relate. 4. Such approved Bye-laws may be at any time varied or revoked by the Governor in Council, upon tho recommendation of the Runanga. 5. The Runangas will also have the following powers:— (1.) Of inspecting and reporting on Native Schools aided by Government grants, and of recommending the establishment of additional Schools. (2.) Of erecting, maintaining, and superintending Gaols. (3.) Of erecting, maintaining, and inspecting Hospitals. (4.) The charge, construction, aud care of roads in their District, not being main lines of road, proclaimed as such by the Government. (5.) Of providing for the atljustment of disputed land boundaries, of tribes, of hapus, or of individuals, and for deciding who may be the true owners of any Native lands. (6.) Of recommending the terms and conditions on which Crown Grants may be issued to tribes, hapus, or individuals. Native Clergymen and Schoolmasters. In order that assistance may be afforded to the Civil Commissioners and the Runanga in establishing Schools in their District, and promoting the spread of piety and order, salaries of £50 per annum each will be provided for three Native Clergymen and Schoolmasters in each District, subject to such conditions and regulations as may be agreed on between the Government and the head of the religious body to which such ministers may belong. Resident Magistrates, Native Assessors' Courts. 1. The Civil Commissioners, Resident Magistrates, and Native Assessors, shall periodically hold Courts within their several Districts, at such convenient times and places as may, from time to time, be appointed by the Governor for that purpose. 2. In order that, as soon as possible, uniformity of decisious may be introduced into the several Resident Magistrates' Courts held iu the various Districts into which the Native portions of the Northern Island may be divided, regulations will be made which will provide that, when and so often as any such Court shall sentence any person, upon conviction, to be imprisoned with or without hard labor for any period exceeding one month, or to pay any tine exceeding five pounds,

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