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SCHEDULE No. 2. Claims under Act of 1892. The accompanying schedules complete the list of claims rejected by the several Commissioners of Crown Lands up to the present date, and a fairly correct estimate can now be arrived at of those claims requiring revision. The gross total of claims is 562. 211 can be disposed of as follows, viz.: — Volunteers who have not proved five years' service to entitle them to further consideration ... ... ... 140 Claimants who have not complied with the Acts ... ... 71 211 351 cases remain for revision, subject, however, to a reduction of about seventy claims representing Militia service, and other cases under the head of " character." This estimate will leave a net total of, say, 280 claims under the Act of 1892 to be considered and dealt with. To recognise the claims and deal with them on their merits, legislation will be necessary in that direction. These claims are irrespective of those special cases which are in a separate schedule.

Memorandum of Claims scheduled. Claimants not having five years' continuous efficient Volunteer service ... 140 Claimants technically barred ... ... ... ... ... 150 Claimants rejected on the question of " character" on discharge... ... 54 Claimants who have not complied with the Acts ... ... ... 71 Miscellaneous claims, including Militia service ... ... ... 147 Total number of claims inquired into and rejected by the several Commissioners under the provisions of "The Naval and Military Settlers'and Volunteers'Land Act, 1892 " ... ... ... 562

Ebturn of Claims made under the Naval and Military Settlers' and Volunteers' Land Acts, and rejected by the Commissioners for the Eeasons set out in Each Case. Ahalysis 01 Cases bejected—Auckland District. 79 claims of Volunteers excluded for not having the re- inadmissible ; others are open to argument on the quisito service— interpretation of the term " good '■' as used in the Nos. 3, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18, 19, 24, 25, 27, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, Act. 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 62, 67, 69, 78, 81, 82, 86, 89, 93, 92 claims technically barred— 98, 119, 121, 122, 125, 126, 127, 131, 143, 145, 151, Nos. 4, 15, 22, 33, 37, 38, 40, 52, 53, 58, 61, 68, 74, 80, 152, 153, 155, 158, 159, 164, 165, 175, 176, 179, 183, 84, 87, 90, 96, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 109, 110, 111, 184, 185, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 197, 200, 205, 113, 117, 120, 123, 124, 128, 129, 136, 138, 139, 140, 206, 209, 210, 214, 217, 218, 219, 224, 225, 232, 247, 142, 1.54, 156, 161, 162, 167, 168, 169, 172, 182, 187, 248, 260, 265, 297. These claimants have no ground 208, 211, 213, 216, 220, 222, 243, 244, 245, 254, 259, of complaint; they have not fulfilled the conditions 264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 274, 276, 278, 279, 281, that would entitle them to consideration under the 285, 286, 289, 290, 298, 304, 305, 306, 307, 311, 315, Ads. 316, 318, 320, 321, 322, 323, 325, 326, 327, 330, 331, 63 claims in which the Actß do not apply— 334. These cases will require legislation, the claims Nos. 2, 5, 6, 10, 17, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28, 34, 48, 49, 56, 65, being for services other than those for which land or 66, 72, 75, 79, 83, 91, 94, 95, 100, 106, 107, 108, 114, scrip has already been granted. 115, 116, 118, 130, 132, 133, 134, 147, 148, 150, 162, 75 miscellaneous— 174, 186, 193, 196, 198, 199, 202, 203, 207, 229, 230, Nos. 1, 7, 9, 12, 14, 31, 32, 35, 36, 43, 46, 50, 51, 64, 71, 233, 235, 236, 237, 242, 249, 252, 255, 258, 262, 275, 73, 77, 85, 88, 92, 97, 112, 135, 137, 144, 146, 149, 292, 299. These cases would require the p esent law 160, 163, 166, 170, 171, 177, 178, 180, 204, 212, 223, to be amended. 226, 227, 228, 234, 238, 246, 250, 251, 253, 256, 257, 27 claims rejected on the ground of character on dis- 261, 263, 271, 282, 283, 287, 288, 291, 294, 296, 300, charge— 308, 309, 310, 312, 314, 315, 319, 324, 328, 329, 332, Nos. 29, 30, 39, 63, 70, 76, 99, 124, 157, 181, 188, 201, 333, 335, 336. 215, 221, 231, 239, 241, 272, 273, 277, 280, 284, 293, 295,301,302,317. Some of these cases are clearly 336 total.