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| mine the priority ot rijrht. to tie liard by lot.- And if | shall not ho lawful im- t);<> Board to hear any applicsilion except such ;■» shall be made in accordance will. this regulation. | 14. The Hoard sliall keep true and detailed minutes I of ill! applications made to the Board, and all decisions thereon. ;nd of all sums of money paid to the Treasurer, and p-f.'ii';rnlly of all the proceedings of tho Hoard ;..and s--m:h minutes shall be sigi.?d by all the tLJiifliinissionws present at any meeting. And such minutes shall lie open to the ■inspection of all persons desiring to inspect the same, at all reasonable hours, on 'payment oi the sum of two shilling's and sixpence for every such inspection. * 111. —SURVEYS. 15. There shall be a Chief Suj-veyor who shall be appointed and removable by Warrant under the hand of thu Superintendent, and" as many) distant Surveyors as sliall be necessary, who shall tie appointed and removeable by the Superintendent upon the recommendation of the Chief Surveyor. 16. All surveys shall be conducted in such manner as tho Board by any regulations to be made in that behalf shall'directs IV. —THE LAND REVENUE. 17. All payments to be made in respect of land shall be made to the Treasurer of the Board during the sitting thereof, and the Treasurer shall thereupon give receipts for tho same. 18.—By the G2nd clause of the Constitution Act the Governor is authorised and required to pay out o the revenue arising from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown all the costs, charges, and expenses incident to the collection, management, and receipt thereof; and also to pay out of the snid revenues such sums as shall become payable under certain other provisions therein contained. The Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board shall, therefore, pay out of all the funds coming1 into his hands under these regulations all such sums for the above-named purposes, in such manner and to such persons as the Governor sliall direct. V. —PUBLIC RESERVES. 19. Reserves for the uses of the Provincial Government and for other public purposes may, upon the ecommendation of the Provincial Council, be madef by the Superintendent; and shall not be alienated .from the specific purposes to which they shall have been severally dedicated, except under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly, entitilled the " Public Reserves' Act, 1854;" and a full and complete description of every such reserve and of the purposes to which it shall have been dedicated shall, as soon as possible after it shall have been made, be published in the Government Gazette oftbe l*rovince, and set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Office. Provided that the Superintendent may, if the Provincial Council be not then sitting-, temporarily reserve land for such purposes until the next session of such Council. 20. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths, shall be made by the Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the Authenticated maps in the Land Office. The Superintendent and the Provincial Council may by Ordinance alter the line of any such highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths, and dispose of the land theretofore used for the same. 21; The Superintendent may temporarily reserve any land for the preservation or sale of the timber thereon; but such land may at any time cease to be so reserved upou a resolution of the Provincial Council. 22. The Superintendent may, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, reserve from the operation of these regulations any tract of country in which the precious metals may be found to exist: and the land within such tract of country sliall be disposed of according to regulations hereafter to be issued and published in that behalf; in the same manner and under the same authority as these present regulations VI. —TOWN LANDS. 23. The sites of towns shall be determined by the Superintendent, upon the recommendation of the: Provincial Council, and shall be notified by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province. 24. Town Lauds shall be sold by public auction, in sections, the size and upset price of which shall be determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; and having- been so determined, for each town severally, shall not again be altered. 25. The time and place of every auction sale shall be fixed by the Superintendent, and shall be notified in the'Goverument Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the Province, at least thirty days before such sale shall take place. 26. No such notification of any sale of town lands shall be published until a map oi the town, signed by the Chief Surveyor, shall have been laid open for public inspection in the Land Office; and such map shall set forth, accurately delineated, all the town sections numbered consecutively, so far as laid out, showing' the sections to be submitted forsale, and the public reserves in connection with them. 27. Town sections may be put up to auction, either by order of the Superintendent, or upon the application of some person who.shall, at the time of makingsuch application, deposit ten per cent, of the upset price with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board. Such deposits shall, if no advance on the upset price oe made, be considered as the deposit upon the sale at such public auction. -._-,■:..■■ .. • ~.--., 28. If any section shall be purchased by other than the original applicant, the deposit money shall be forthwith returned on demand. :. 29. Ten days at least before any such auction sale, a list of all the sections about to be offered for sale shall be-published in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the Province. : SO. Every auction sale of land shall be held by the Commissioners in open court as hereinbefore provided. 31. The person who shall be declared the liighest bider at such auction shall immediately pay a deposit of ten per cent, of the purchase money to the Treasuror, and in default thereof, the section shall he again immediately put up to auction, paid to the Treasurer, in full, within one week after fl'2. The remainder of the iMirnhaw* 'money <=bal Ibi* the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the pur chase shall forfeit his deposit money, and^ also al right or title to the laud; and the section maybe sold to any person applying- for the same for the price at which it was knocked (Town at the auction.; and, if not so sold, the section maybe again put up to auction at any future sale. 33. Upon payment of the purchase money in full, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a "License to Occupy," in the form set forth in Schedule A to the 'Waste Lands Regulations, and such License shall be restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land nurchased. VII. —KUKAL LAND. 34. All lands not included in any of the foregoingregulations shall be open, for sale as rural land, at an uniform price of forty shillings per acre. 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section of Rural Land shall be sold, containing less than twenty acres; but any section so limited by frontage lines or private lauds as to contain less than twenty acres may be sold by auction at the upset price of forty shillings per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of sale, and payment of purchase money to bo as nearly as may be in accordance with the regulations herein contained applicable to the sale of Town Land. Provided, nevertheless, that if any section so limited shall be included in a Pasturage License with Preemptive Right, the holder of such License shall be entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Right under these Regulations upon payment of the sum of forty pounds for such section. 36. .Every section of rural land shall be jn one block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage line ,shall be of a depth of half a mile (or 40 chains) from such frontage. Notb. —A frontage line shall he taken to mean the boundary of a rond, river, or public reserve, or any stream or watercourse which shall have been declared by notification in the Government Gazette to constitute a frontage for the purpose of selection. 37. Where, from the frontage not being a straight line or from the interference of other frontage lines, natural features, or the boundaries of private lands, the above rules in respect of form cannot be accurately observed, the form of'the section' shall be determined as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the judgment of the Board, circumstances will admit. 38. In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded •by a frontage lino, all the sides may be equal, but one side may not be less than one-third of the other; and such section shall not be less than half a mile distant from a frontage line. 39. Any person possessing a section of land may at any time select another adjacent thereto, of such form that the two together, being considered as one section, shall be in the form required for a single section under the foregoine: rules.

40. Immediately on the payment of the purchase money, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth in the Schedule B hereunto" annexed ; and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall be laid off by a Government Surveyor, as nearly in accordance'with the description" given by the purchaser in his application as these regulations will admit; provided that whenever the lands selected lie without the surveyed districts, the, expense of the survey and of connecting such survey with the existing surveys shall be borne by the. purchaser, who shall at the time of purchase deposit the amount of the estimated cost of such surveys .with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board, which shall he made as soon as practicable, by order of the Chief Surveyor. Provided always, that should any section when surveyed prov.e to differ in any respect fiom that intended by the purchaser, the Government will not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser may experience, nor will the purchase money be returned. Provided also, that if the Surveyor' shall find that the whole extent of land in the selected locality falls short of the quantity paid for by the purchaser, the Treasurer shall repay so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The "License to Occupy" shall, in any such case, be amended by the Commissioners, in accordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the Crown Grant shall be made out in accordance therewith; and the "License" shall be retumedjp. the Commissioners when the Crown Grantshallbe issued.^