III.  Afrika.  949  151.  Or.  -Riv.-Col.

ment  Board,  for  the  purpose  of  exercising  and  discharging,  in  respect  of  the  lands,
houses,  and  other  fixed  property  hereinafter  mentioned  and  the  persons  in  occupation
  of  them,  the  rights  and  duties  conferred  and  imposed  upon  the  Government
of  the  Colony  or  any  Member  thereof  by  any  Law  of  the  Colony  or  by  any  Agreement
between  such  persons  and  the  Government.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section  persons
in  occupation  shall  include  persons  who,  after  the  appointed  day  may  become  the
lawful  occupiers  of  any  such  lands,  houses,  or  other  fixed  property.

(b.)  The  Board  shall  be  a  Body  Corporate,  and  shall  consist  of  three  Members,
resident  in  the  Colony,  one  of  whom  shall  be  Chairman.  The  Chairman  and  Members
of  the  said  Board  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Governor,  and  shall  hold  office  during
his  pleasure,  and  be  paid  such  salaries  as  he  may  determine.  Two  Members  of  the
Board  shall  form  a  quorum.

lf  any  vacancy  arises  on  the  Board,  the  Governor  shall  appoint  some  other
person  residing  in  the  Colony  to  fill  such  vacancy.

(c.)  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  Governor  to  appoint,  at  such  salaries  as  he  may
determine,  such  officers  as  may  be  necessary  to  assist  the  Board  in  carrying  out  the
purposes  for  which  it  is  established,  whether  from  the  existing  staff  of  the  Land-Settlement
  Department  or  otherwise,  provided  that  all  Members  of  the  existing
staff  of  the  Land  Settlement  Department  so  appointed  whose  offices  are  on  the
appointed  day  included  in  the  Schedule  to  the  ‘Pensions  Ordinance,  1904,”  or  any
amendments  thereof,  shall  be  entitled  to  reckön  their  subsequent  service  with  the
Land  Settlement  Board  for  pension  purposes  under  the  laws  of  the  Colony  and  to
make  rules  and  regulations—

(1.)  For  the  proper  discharge  by  the  Board  and  the  aforesaid  officers  of  the
duties  imposed  on  them;

(2.)  For  the  proceedings  of  the  said  Board;
(3.)  For  the  proper  keeping  of  and  auditing  of  the  accounts  of  the  said  Board.

(2.)—(a.)  There  shall,  on  the  appointed  day,  be  transferred,  without  payment
of  transfer  duty,  stamp  duty,  or  registration  charges  in  the  Deeds  Office  of  the  Colony,
to  and.  in  the  name  of  the  Board  and  for  the  purposes  aforesaid,  such  of  Our  lands
in  the  Colony  as  are  on  the  appointed  day  held  by  settlers  on  the  conditions  prescribed
  in  the  Ordinance  of  the  Colony  intituled  the  “Lands  Settlement  Ordinance,
1902,”  or  any  Ordinance  amending  the  same,  or  any  Agreement  made  under  the
said  Ordinances,  and  all  houses  and  other  fixed  property  situated  within  any  town
or  village  and  purchased  by  the  Government  out  of  founds  allocated  for  the  purposes
of  land  settlement.

For  the  purposes  of  this  section  such  lands  shall  be  deemed  to  be  held  by
settlers  as  aforesaid  on  the  appointed  day  as  shall  then  be  in  the  possession  and
occupation  of  purchasers  or  lessees  under  the  said  Ordinances,  or  of  intending  purchasers
  or  lessees  to  whom  such  lands  have  been  allotted,  notwithstanding  that  their
Agreements  have  not  been  completed,  or  notwithstanding  that  the  boundaries  of
such  lands  have  not  been  fully  determined.