e interest if all conditions to date of surrender have been
fulfilled, and the person so surrendering is entitled to receive from
the Government the value of permanent improvement, whenever the same is
received by the Government from a new tenant.

RIGHT OF PURCHASE LEASES.

Right of Purchase Leases, for the term of twenty-one years, may be
issued to qualified applicants, with the privilege to the Lessee of
purchasing at the end of three years and upon fulfillment of special
conditions.

QUALIFICATIONS OF APPLICANTS.

Any person who is over eighteen years of age, who is a citizen by birth
or naturalization of the Republic of Hawaii or who has received letters
of denization of special rights of citizenship, who is under no civil
disability for any offense, who is not delinquent in the payment of
taxes, and who does not own any agricultural or pastoral land in the
Hawaiian Islands, may apply for Right of Purchase Lease, the limit of
areas which may be acquired being:

100 acres first-class agricultural land;
200 acres second-class agricultural land;
2 acres wet (rice or taro) land;
600 acres first-class pastoral land;
1200 acres second-class pastoral land;
400 acres mixed agricultural and pastoral land.

Any qualified person, owning less than the respective amounts stated in
foregoing list, and which is not subject to residence condition, may
acquire additional land of the classes already held by him but so that
his aggregate holding shall not be in excess of the limit named; or if
desiring additional land of another class may acquire the same according
to ratio established between the various classes.

Husband and wife may not both be applicants for Right of Purchase Leases.

Application must be made in person at the office of Sub-Agent of the
District, and must be accompanied by a fee equal to six months rent of
premises, fee to be credited on account of rent, if application is
successful, and to be returned is application is unsuccessful. In case
of more than one application for same lot the first application takes
precedence.

CONDITIONS OF RIGHT OF PURCHASE LEASE.

Term: twenty-one years.

Rental: Eight per cent. on the appraised value given in lease, payable
semi-annually.

The Lessee must from the end of the first to the end of the fifth year
continuously maintain his home on the leased premises.

The Lessee must have in cultivation at the end of three years five per
cent. and a