The Short Title of this Act is “The Native Townships Act Amendment Act, 1899.”

Section twenty of “The Native Townships Act, 1895” (herein called “the said Act”), is hereby modified by providing that in lieu of charging against and deducting from the moneys in the therein-mentioned account the entire amount of compensation or costs of survey, such compensation or costs may be charged and deducted in such number of half-yearly instalments, not exceeding twenty, as, on the report of the Commissioner, the Minister of Lands thinks fit; and the surplus moneys divisible each half-year amongst the Native owners shall be computed accordingly.

The sums payable to the Native owners in respect of each such half-yearly division shall be paid to them as soon as practicable after the division is made.

Section twenty-two of the said Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the words “or right to any improvements,” after the words “any such share or interest.”