Oahu.
6th. The Island of Kauai.

The Commissioners are represented by a Sub-Agent in each District.

Public Lands for the purposes of this Act are classified as follows:

I. Agricultural Lands. First Class: Land suitable for the cultivation of
Fruit, Coffee, Sugar or other perennial crops with or without irrigation.

Second Class: Land suitable for the cultivation of annual crops only.

Third Class: Wet lands such as kalo and rice lands.

II. Pastoral Land. First Class: Land not in the description of
Agricultural land but capable of carrying livestock the year through.

Second Class: Land capable of carrying livestock only part of the year,
or otherwise inferior to First Class Pastoral land.

III. Pastoral Agricultural Land: Land adapted in part for pasturage and
in part for cultivation.

IV. Forest Land: Land producing forest trees but unsuitable for
cultivation.

V. Waste Land. Land not included in the other classes.

The Act provides three principal methods for the acquirement of Public
Lands, under systems known as

I. Homestead Lease.

II. Right of Purchase Lease.

III. Cash Freehold.

GENERAL QUALIFICATION OF APPLICANTS.

Applicants for land under systems named above, must be over eighteen
years of age, must be citizens by birth or naturalization or have
received letters of denization or special rights of citizenship, be
under no civil disability for any offense, nor delinquent in the payment
of taxes. Special qualifications are named under the respective systems.

HOMESTEAD LEASE SYSTEM.

The Homestead Lease system permits the acquirement of Public Land by
qualified persons without other payments than a fee of two dollars upon
application and a fee of five dollars upon issuance of Homestead Lease.

The limit of area in the different classes of land which may be acquired
under Homestead Lease is:

8 acres first-class agricultural land;
16 acres second-class agricultural land;
1 acre wet (rice or taro) land;
30 acres first-class pastoral land;
60 acres second-class pastoral land;
45 acres pastoral-agricultural land.

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS OF APPLICANTS FOR HOMESTEAD LEASE.

Any person having the general qualifications (as to citizenship, etc.)
who is not the owner in his own right of any land in the Hawaiian
Islands, other than "wet land" (rice, taro, etc.) and who is not an
applicant for other land under the Act may apply under this part of
the Act, and such appli