< To decide in what cases such compensation should lie made, and what should be the amount to be awarded, it was necessary to con stitute some tribunal to whom the cjuestion should be referred ; it is aiso necessary that any such tribunal should be indepen lent and impartial, and such as will pommand the con fidence of both races of her Majesty's sub jects. Haying regard to these objepts the Government have not been able to devise any more satisfactory tribunal than the one alrea dy in existence, viz., the Supreme Court ; and, accordingly, it is provided, that if at any time before a period to be limited by the Bill it should be proved to the satisfaction of a Judge of the Supreme Court that the native title to the land comprised in any such grant hath not been fully extinguished, it shall be lawful for such Judge to award to the native ; claimant proving title to the same such com pensation as shall appear to stand with equity aijd good conscience. The next question is, [ by whom, or out of what fund, shall this com pensation, if any be awarded, be paid. Two courses presented themselves — either to make the compensation chargeable on the land in ' respect of which it may be awarded,- and pay able by the owner of the land — or payable out of the general revenue of the Province,. On some grounds it may seem to be fair to make the compensation a charge upon the land jt self; but to adopt such a course would have the effect of rendering the measure, so far as it is intended to settle the question, of little more value than so much waste paper ; be cause, although it might still have given to the grantee a perfect title to the land itself, it would have saddled it with the possibility of an unknown and uncertain charge whirb, for years to come, would have materially impair ed its intrinsic marketable value,. 