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penses Incident to the collection, management, and receipt thereof; and also to pay out of the said 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 coining into his hands under these regulations all such sums fer the above-named purposes, in such manner and to tueh persons as the GoA-ernor shall direct. V.—PUBLIC RESERVES. 19. Reserves for the uses of the Provincial Government ami for other public purposes may, upon the ecommendation of the Provincial Council, be made by the Superintendent; and shall not be alienated from the specific purposes to Avhich they shall lun-e been severally dedicated, except under the provisions of an Act of'the General Assembly, entituled the " Public Reserves Act, 1854;" and a full and complete description of every such reserve and of the I purposes to wliich it shall have been dedicated shall, as soon as possible .after it shall have been made, be published in the Government Gazette of the Province, and set forth on the authenticated maps in tiie Land Office. .Provided that the Superintendent may. if the Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily reserve land for such j-urposes until the next session of such Council. 20. Reserves for public highways, bridle-paths, and foLt-paths, shall be made by the Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Ofiice. The. Superintendent and the Provincial Council may by Ordinance alter the line of auy such highways, bridle-paths, and foot-paths, and dispose of the land theretofore used for the same. 21. Tiie Superintendent may temporarily reserve any land for the preservation or sale of the timber thereon; but such land may at any time cease to he so reserved upon a resolution of the Provincial Council. 22. The Superintendent may, upon the recommendation of the ProA-incial Council, by proclamation in the GoA-ernment Gazette, resei-ve from tin; 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 shall be disposed o according to regulations hereafter to be issued and published in that behalf; in the same manner and under the samfi authority as these present regulations. VI. —TOAVN 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 GoA-ernment Gazette of the Province. 24. ToAvn Lands 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 Government 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 he published until a map of' the town, signed by tlie 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 for sale, 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 ot some person who shall, at the time of making such application, deposit ten per cent, of the upset price Avith 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 otlered for sale shall be published in the Government Gazette, and | one or more neAVSpapers of the Province. ', 80. Every auct'on sale of land shall be held by the Commissioners in open court- as hereinbefore proI vided. [ 31. 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 Treasuror, and in default thereof, the section shall'be again immediately put up to auction, paid to the Treasurer in full, within one week after 32. The remainder of the purchase money shal hie the day of sale; ami, in default thereof, the pur chase shall forfeit his deposit money, and also al right or title, to the land; and the section maybe sold to any person applying for the same for the price at which it Avas knocked down at the auction; and, if not so sold, the section may be again put up to auction at auy future sale. 33. Upon payment of tbe 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 tbe Commis.-ioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased. VII. —RURAL LAND. 34. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be open for sale as rural land, at an uniform m-iee of forty shillings per acre. 35. SaA-e as hereinafter proAaded, no section of Rural Land shall be sold, containing less than twenty acres; but any section so limited by frontage Hues- or private lands 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 be as nearly as may be in accordance Avith the regulations herein contained applicable to the side of ToAvn Land. Provided, nevertheless, that if any section so limited .shall'he included ma Pasturage License Avith 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 vi' rural land shall be in 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. Note.—A frontage line shall be taken to mean the boundary of a road, irver, 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 fine or roni the interference of other frontage lines, natural features, or the boundaries of private lands, the aboA-e rules in respect of form cannot be accurately observed, the form of th--: section shall be determined as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the judgment of the Board, circumstances Avill admit. 38. In sections of iands not adjacent to or bounded by.a frontage line, 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 fine.' 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 foregoing 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-'scon 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 Avill admit; provided tbat whenever the lands selected lie Avithout the surveyed districts, tbe 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 cmount of the estimated cost of such surveys Avith th;: Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board, which shui! be made as soon as practicable, by order of the Chief Surveyor. Provided a'ways, that should any s- ciion when surveyed prove to differ in any respect from that intended by the purchaser, the Government Avill not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience wliich the purchaser may experience, nor will the purchase money be re r ' turned. Provided also, that if the Surveyor shallfind that the whole extent of land in the selected locality foils short ot 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 auy such case, be amended by the Commissioners, in accordance with the report of the Surveyor, and tho CroAvn Grant shall be made out in accordance therewith; and the " License" shall be returned to the Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall be ssued. 41. Any person making a ditch and hank fence on lands adjoining Waste Lands of the' CroAvn may take out of sutfi lands half the land required for the ditch aiid bank : provided that no ditch or bank shall be more than six feet in width. VIII-. —CO-MI'KNSATION LANDS. 42. Whereas it is desirable that private persons (should be enabled lo receive portions of Waste Ltind 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 oi a road or of any other public work, or in respect 01 any damages done to his property by the taking of such land tor such purposes, such person shall, uuon application to the Waste Lauds Board, be entitled to a want of rural land in such situation as he shall select, subject totlie conditions as to form and frontage in these regulations contained, to the extent oi one acre . for every two pounds sterling of the amount ot compensation which the applicant shall be entitled to : receive in respect of the lard taken for such purposes inrespecf sf such, damage waforeiaid.