The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-07-15

failed so to select and give notice
within the time limit, as provided in
paragraph CD OF section 204 of this
title.
Sec. 200. The powers and duties
of the governor, the commissioners of
public lands, and the board of public
lands, in respect to lands of the Ter
ritory, shall not extend to lands hay
ing the satus of Hawaiian home
lands, except as specifically provided
in this title.
Acreage Limit on Leases
Sec. 207. (a) The commission is
authorized to lease to native Ha-
waiians the right to the use and oc-
cupancy of a tract of Hawaiian home
lands within the following acreage
limits:
% Not less than twenty nor more
than eighty acres of agricultural
lands ;or
(2) Not less than one hundred nor
more than five hundred acres of first
class pastoral lands; or
(3) Not less than two hundred and
acres of second-class pastoral lands.
OBJ The title to lands so leased
shall remain in the United States.
Applications for tracts shall be made
TO and granted by the commission,
under such regulations not in con
flict with any provisions OF this title,
as the commission may prescribe.
The commission shall, whenever
tracts are available, enter into such
a lease with any applicant who, in
the opinion of the commission, liz
| qualified to perform the conditions OF
such lease.
Lessees' Qualifications
Sec. 2OS. Each lease made undcY
J the authority granted the commission
by the provisions of section 2OI o.
| this title ard the tract in respect 70
which the lease is made shall be
| deemed subject to the following con
| ditions, whether or not stipulated IL
| the lease:
az The lessee Shall be a native
Hawaiian;
(2) The lessee shall pay a rental
of 81 a year for the tract and the
lease shall be for a term OF ninety
! nine years;
(3) The lessee shall occupy and
commence to use OF cultivate the
| tract as his home or farm within one
| year after the lease is made;
ca The lessee shall thereafter, 70"
| at least such part of each year as the
| commission shall by regulation pre-
scribe, SO occupy and use or cultivate
| the tract on his own behalf.
Transfers Are Limited
(5) The lessee shall not in any man
ner transfer to, or mortgage, pledge,
or otherwise hold for the benefit OF,
any other person, except a native Ha-
| waiian, and then only upon h appro-
| val of the commission, or agree so to
| transfer mortgage, pledge, or other
| wise hold his interest in he tract
| Such interest shall not, except in pur-
suance of such a transfer, mortgage,
or pledge to or holding for or agree
ment with a native Hawaiian, be
| subject to attachment, levy, or sale
upon court process. The lessee shall
| not sublet his interest in the tract
| or improvements thereon. Upon the
| death of the lessee his interest in the
| tract and improvements thereon shall
vest under the limitations provided
| for homesteads in section 4O3 of the
| Revised Laws of Hawaii of 1915;
(6) The lessee shall pay all taxes
assessed upon the tract and improve
ments thereon within sixty days after
| they become delinquent. If the lessee
| fails to so pay, the commission shall
thereupon pay the taxes and have a
lien therefor as provided in section
PIG of this title;
Ito be C%ontinued.)