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penses Incident to tlie collection, management, and receipt thereof; and also to pny out of the said revenues t such sums as shall become "payable under certain fl other provisions thwvin contained. The Treasurer oi s the Waste Lands Board sliall, therefore, pay out of all n the funds coming into his liands under these regula- 1 (ions all such sums for the above-named purposes, in o such manner and to such persons as the Governor « shall direct. I: V. —PUBLIC RESERVES. { 19. Reserves for the uses of the Provincial Govern- J ment and for other public purposes may, upon the I' rcomraendation of the Provincial Council, be made s by the Superintendent; and shall not be alienated c from the specific purposes to which they shall have < been severally dedicated, except under the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly, entituled the J "Public Reserves Act, 1854;" and a full and com- c plete description of every such reserve and of the a purposes to which it sliall have been dedicated shall, c as soon as possible after it sliall have been made, be published in. the Government Gazette of the Provir.ce, s and set forth on the^aiirhentieated maps in the Ifjid ' Office. Provided thnt the Superintendent may/ if ' the Provincial Council he not then sitting, temporarily reserve land for such purposes until the next session \ of such Council. c 20. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths, shall be mntle by the Superintendent, and f shall he set forth on tl;u authenticated maps in the J Land Office. The Superintendent and the Provincial 1 Council may by Ordinance alter the line of any such £ highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths, and dispose of t the land theretofore used for the same. 21. The Superintendent may temporarily resu-vc • any land for the preservation or sale of the timber j thereon; but such land may at any time cease to he » so reserved upon a resolution of the Provincial I Council. 22. The Superintendent may, upon tii'- ; •■nm- > mendation of the Provincial Council, by pnvl,nation I in the Government Gazette, reserve from the opera- 1 tion 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 shall be disposed o i 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 he determined by ihe ' Superintendent, upon the recommendation of the ' Provincial Council, and shall be notified by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province. 24. Town Lands shall be sold by public auction, in > sections, the size and upset price of which shall be i determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; and having been so determined, for each ! town severally, shall not agaiir.be altered. ' 25. The time and place ofieyery auction sale shm! > be fixed by the Superintendent, and shall be noti'Uvl ' in the Government Gazette, and one or more new- I papers of the Province, at least tliirty days bei<>r*> such sale shall take place. 20. 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 ope), 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 for sale, and i lie public reserves in connection with them. 27. Town sections may be put up to auction, either by order of the Superintendent, or upon the appli-a---tion of some person who shall, at the time of malting such 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 section? about to be offered for sale shall be published in the Government Gazette, find one or more newspapers of the Province. 30. Every aucfon sale of laud shall be held by the Commissioners in open court as hereinbefore provided. 81. The person who shall be declared the highest hider at such auction shall immediately pay a deposit of ten per cent, of the purchase money to the Treasurer, and in default thereof, the section shall be again immediately put up to auction. ■ paid to the Trafisurer in full, within one week after 32. The remainder of the purchase money shal 11w> the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the pur chase shall forfeit his deposit money, and also al right or title to the land; and the section maybe aofd to any person applying for the same for the price iat which it was knocked down at the auction; and, ! if not so sold, the section may be 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 purchased. VII. —RURAL LAND. 34. AH lands not .included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be open for sale as rural land, at an uniform urice 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 lands as to contain less than twenty acres may : be sold by auction at the upset price of forty shillin:;* per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of sale, and payment of purchase money to be as neai-jy as may be in accordance with the regulations heiein 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" shaK be i entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Right uivier 1 these Regulations upon payment of the sum of forty i pounds &r such section. i 36. 'E«vy section of rural land shall be in cne i block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a ref:t----i angular form, and if bounded by a frontage line ,shall be of a depth of half a mile (or 40 chains) from such i frontage. Note. —A frontage line shall betaken to mean the . boundary of a road, river, or public reserve, or :uiy i stream or watercourse which shall have been dfi'.'baed by notification in the Government Gazette to consti- • tute a frontage for the purpose of selection. ; 37. Where, from the frontage not being a straight line or rom 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 i as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in 'the : judgment of the Board, circumstances will admit. i 38. In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded by a frontageJine, all the sides may be equal, but one ■ side may not be less than one-third of the other; tind . such section shall not be less than half a mile distant ! from a frontace line. I 39. Any person possessing a section of land may at I 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 foregoing rules. .. 40. Immediately on the payment of the purchay - money, the purchaser sliaii receive from the Commissioners a " License to Ocupy," in the form set fnrtlr ; in the Schedule B hereunto annexed; and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall \v. ' laid off by a Government. Surveyor, as nearly in ac--1 cordance with the description given by the purchaser ) in his application as these regulations will admit; l provided that whenever the lands selected lie wither.; i the surveyed districts, the expense of the survey uv-i s of connecting such survey with the existing survf ..>•.- - shall be borne by the pure:: ,ser, who shall at the tirto a of purchase deposit the awuunt of the estimated <•■-•,( . of such surveys' with this Treasurer of the W-l« i Lands Board, which shall he made as soon asipractks able, by order of the Chief Surveyor.- Provided c always, that should any sc-ution when surveyed prove i to differ in any respect from that intended by t«e c purchaser, the Government will not be responsible n For any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser r may experience, nor will .he purchase money be rey turned. Provided also, ihat if the Surveyor sisal - find that the whole extent of land in the selected it locality falls short ot the quantity paid for by the i- purchaser, the Treasurer .shall repay so much of the h purchase money as exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The "License to Occupy" shall, m any :s such case, be amended by the Commissioners, in acis cordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the i- Crown Grant shall be made out in accordance le therewith; and the "License" shall be returned to ie the Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall be :h ssued. is 41. Any person making a ditch and bank fence on s, lands adjoining Waste Lands of the Crown may take :e out of such lands half the land required for the ditch and bank: provided that no ditch or bank shall be more than six feet in width. >c VIII. —COMPENSATION LANDS.

42. Whereas it is desirable that private persona should be enabled to receive portions of Waste Land in exchange for private lands taken for roads or for' other public purposes; if any person shall be entitled to receive any compensation in respect of any land which shall have been taken for the purposes of a road or of any other public work, or in respect of any damages done to his property by the taking of such land lor such purposes, such person shall, unon application to the Waste Lauds Board, be entitled to a grant of rural'land in such situation as he shall select, subject to the conditions us to form and frontage m tht*e regulations contained, to the extent of one acre for every two pounds sterling of the amount of compensation which the apiiieant shall be entitled vo receive in respect of the lti>d taken for such purposes in respect of such damage jw aforesaid.