| 14. | The Board ia empowered to reserve land for, as far as practicable, the individual use and occupation of Native owners, on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit and also to reserve land for burial-places, schools, churches, and other purposes of public convenience or utility. |
| 15. | When disposing of Native lands by lease, the Board may give priority to applications of Natives who are landless, or who may be owners of the lands thrown open for leasing. |
| 16. | The Board may agree with Her Majesty for Native lands to be available for mining purposes under "The Mining Act, 1891," the revenues from all such lands in respect of mining being paid by the Warden to the Board for the benefit of the Native owners. |
| 17. | The Board may expend money on the formation and maintenance of roads, streets, surveys, and opening land for settlement, or any other purpose authorised by the Act or regulations. |
| 18. | The Board shall have such further powers as may be conferred upon it by regulations, and all regulations shall be laid upon the table of both Houses within fourteen days after being gazetted, if Parliament be in session, and if not in session, within fourteen days after the commencement of the first ensuing session thereof. |
| 19. | The Board shall, with respect to Native lands vested in it, have all the powers of the Native Land Court as to partition, succession, definition of relative interests, and appointments of trustees for Native owners under disability. |
| 20. | The income of the Board in respect of Native lands shall be applied—
| (1.) | To defray costs of administration. |
| (2.) | Paying off mortgages, charges, and liens that are due. |
| (3.) | Paying balance to Native owners according to their relative interests. |
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| 21. | No Native owner may dispose of his interest in any Native land within a district in which the Act has been adopted, except by will in favour of another Native. |
| 22. | No Native land within any such district may be seized or sold for debt. |
| 23. | The Board may borrow from the Government upwards of £5,000 in any year for the purpose of roading, surveying, and opening lands for settlement. |
| 24. | At the request of the Native owners concerned, the Board may borrow from the Government in any year upwards of £5,000 for the purpose of discharging mortgages or other encumbrances to which the lands are subject at the time of tbe adoption of the Act, and upwards of £1,060 for the purpose of paying then-exiating unsecured debts of the Native owners. |
| 25. | The moneys so borrowed from the Government shall be repayable, with interest at 5 per centum per annum, by equal annual instalments extending over upwards of fortytwo years, and the instalments shall be deducted from the income of the Native owners for whose benefit the money was borrowed. |
| 26. | Uncompleted purchases by the Crown, and all uncompleted private dealings lawfully commenced, and which could have been lawfully completed but for the passing of the Act, may, in the districts where the Act is adopted, be completed through the Board. |
| 27 | The Governor in Council may make all such regulations as are necessary for the carrying-out of the provisions of the Act. |
| 28. | The Governor in Council may exempt any Native land from the operation of the Act in cases where he is satisfied that the Native owner is himself fully competent to administer the same. |
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