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mine the priority of right to be hard by lot. And it shall not be lawful for the Board to hear any application except fuch as shall be made in accordance with this reprulniioil:. 14. The Board shall keep true and detailed minutes of all applications made to the Board, and nil decisions thereon, and of all sums of money paid to the Treasurer, ant! generally of nil the proceedings of the Board; and such minutes shall bo sijji nd by all the Commissioners present at any meeting. And such minutes shall lie open to the inspecfio?i of all persons "desiring to inspect the same, at all reasonable hours, on payment of the sum of two shilling and sixpence for every such inspection. lII.—SURVEYS. 15. There shall be a Chief Surveyor who shall be appointed and removable by Warrant under the hand of the Superintendent, and" as many I "distant Surveyor"! as. shall be necessary, who shnll ue appointed and removcablc by the Superintendent, upon the recommendation of the Chief Surveyor. IG. All surveys shall be conducted in such manner as the Board by any regulations to be made in that behalf shall direct. IV.—THE LAND REVENUE. 17. AH paynients 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 the same. ■ 18.—By the 62nd clause of the Constitution Act the Governor is authorised and required to payout 6 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 said revenues such sums as shall become * payable under certain other provisions therein contained. The Treasurgr of the Waste Lands Board shall, therefore, pay. out of all -the funds coming into,his hands under these regulations all such sums for the abflYJ-named '-purposes', in such manner and to such persons as the Governor shall direct. ... •■ V.—PUBLIC RESERVES. 19. Reserves for the uses of the Provincial Government and for othev public purposes ni'ay,: upon the 'ccommendation of the Provincial Council,' be-mndef 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, entituled 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 tho Government Gazette of the Province, 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 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 upon a resolution of the Provincial Council. 22. The Superintendent may, upon the recommendation'of the Provincial Council, byproolaunation in tho 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 shall 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, 20. The sites of tpwns shall he 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 Lnnds shall be sold by public auction, in sections, the size and upset price ■of which shnll be determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; and having been so determined, for each town severally, shall not again be altered. 20. The time and place of every auction eale shall be fixed by the Superintendent, and. shall uc'notificd in the Government, Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the province^ at least thirty days before such sale shall take place. 20. No such notification of any sale of town lands shall be published until a map of the town, signed by the Chief Surveyor, shall have been laid open for public inspection "in the Land Office; and such map shnll 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 way be piU up to'auction, either by order of Superintendent, or upon the application of some person who shall, at the time of making such applicatipu, deposit ten per cprjt. 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 bo purchfised 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 siiie shall be published in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the Province. 80. Every auction sale of land shall he held'by the Commissioners in open court as hereinbefore provided. 31. The person who shall be declared the highest, iiider atjsueh auction shall immediately pay a depositl of ten per cent, of the purchase money to the Treasuror, and in default thereof, the section shall be again immediately put up io auction, paid to the Treasurer in full, witliin one week after R2. The remainder of the pnreiinsp money shnl Ibc the day of sale j and, in default thereof, the pur chase shall forfeit his deposit money, and also al right or title to the land ; and tho section may be sold to any person applying for the same for the price at which it was knocked down at the auction; and, if not so sold, the section may be again put up to auction ni 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 he restored to the Commissioners upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased. yil.-r-KTJUAk LANn. 34. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be opeu for sale as rural land, at uniform price of forty shillings per acre. 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section of Rural Land shall bn sold, containing less than twenty acres; but any section so limited by frontage lines or private landb 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 in one block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectnngulur form, and if bounded by a frontage line ,sliall he 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, 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 Hdc or' romthe interference of other frontage lines, natural features, or the boundaries of private lands, the above rule in respect of form, cannot be accurately observed^ the form of the section shall be determined; as nearly in accordance witli these rules as, in the' judgment of the Board, circumstances' will admit. . i, 36. In sections of lands not adjacent to or hounded' by a frontage line, all the sides may be equal, but one; side may not he less than one-third of the other'; and' Mich section shall not be less than half a mile distant from a frontage line. 39. Any pe"rson' 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 moiicy, the purchaser shall receive from tlie 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 lauds 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 be made as soon as practicable, by order of the Chief Surveyor. 2'rovided always, that should any section when surveyed prove to dfffer in any respect from 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 i 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 returned to the Commissioners when the Crown Qjsntfb.a}lbe esu«d. .-■-.' , . , " . ' tji, i