Section 13, The Protectorat~ Land ~~~rt title Ordinance

Every non-native residing in a chiefdom who does nothold a lease of land within the chiefdom, other than a nonnative employed by a person holding a lease and residing on the land held under such lease, shall, in lieu of the customary presents or contribution of labour sanctioned by native law, pay to the Paramount Chief, in respect of each year or portion of a year of such residence, a settler's fee. In no case shall the wife or husband or children of a settler who resides with him or her be liable to pay any settler's fee: Provided that it shall be lawful for a Paramount Chief, with the consent of the Provincial Commissioner, to forgo exacting payment of the whole or any part of such fee in the case of a non-native resident within the chiefdom who- (i) by his knowledge of any special trade or calling, or by his maintenance of any school or other institution, is in the opinion of the Paramount Chief conferring a benefit on the chiefdom; or (ii) is employed by a person engaged in any industrial undertaking. Powers of District Commissioner, etc., at enquiry. Cap. 7. Definition of economic trees. Settler's fee. * ~or the purposes of this section the term " industrial undertaking " shall have the same meaning as in the Employers and Cap. 212. Employed Ordinance. 8 * S~ction 33 of the Local Tax Ordinance, Cap. 63, enacts that this section 13, about hettlbrs fees, shall cease to apply in parts of the Protectorate to which it (Chapter 63) Chs een applied, with provisions which save acts done, rights acquired and so on. in :Eter 63 has been applied to all parts of the Protectorate except the Toll chiefdom e Kono District (P.N. 1 of 1955 and P.N. 70 of 1959). Saving of Cap. 121 and Cap. 230. Registration by District Commissioner of existing titles to land. Power of Governor to make rules. Cap. 122] Protectorate Land