The Short Title of this Act is “The Horowhenua Block Act, 1895.”

The lands comprised in the several certificates of title issued under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act in respect of divisions numbered six, nine, eleven, twelve, and fourteen of the said block are hereby declared to be absolutely inalienable in any manner howsoever until after the last day of next session of Parliament; And no proceeding whatever in connection with the said lands, or any of them, or with any dispute or question which has arisen in relation thereto or any dealings therewith, shall be commenced or continued in any Court whatsoever so long as such lands shall remain inalienable as aforesaid.

The notification under the provisions of “The Government Native Land Purchase Act, 1877,” published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 11, of the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, shall, with respect to all portions of the said block other than divisions numbered six, nine, eleven, twelve, and fourteen, be deemed to have ceased to have any force or effect on or after the third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.

The Governor in Council shall appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the circumstances connected with the sales or dispositions by the Natives of any or the whole of the blocks contained in the Horowhenua Block, comprising originally about fifty thousand acres, and as to the purchase-money paid for the same, and as to what trusts, if any, the same respectively were subject to; and the costs and expenses of such Commission shall be charged upon such of the lands as the Commission may determine.