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! -commendation of the Provincial Council, be mad< by the Superintendent; and shall not be alienated rom the specific-purposes to which they Shall have been severally dedicated, except under tfie provisions >f an Act of the General Assembly, entituled the ' Public Reserves Act, 1854;" and a full and com-! ;>!ete description of every such reserve and of the purposes to which it shall have been dedicated shall; >is soon as possible after it shall have been made, be published in the Government Gazette of the Province, aid set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land Jffice. Provided that the Superintendent may, if he Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily •eservc land for such purposes until the next session >f such Council.

20. Reserves for public highways,'bridle-paths, and 'hot-paths, shall be made by"the Superintendent, and -hall be set forth on the authenticated mans 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 disposed the land theretofore used for the same.

I 21. The Superintendent may temporarily, reserveany 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, 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 ;and 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. 23. The sites of towns shall be determined b.y the 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 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 befor* such sale shall take place. . 26. 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 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 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. It 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 puWished in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers of the Province. 30. 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 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 Treasurer in full, within one week nftft 32. Thp remainder of the vmi'hnw mnncy »'»nl Ib< the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the pur chase shall forfeit Ids deposit money, and also al right or title to the land; and the 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 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. —RCRAI, LAND. 34. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be open for sale :is 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 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 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 witli Preemptive Right, the holder of such License shall be «ntit!ed 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 'n 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, 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 rom the interference of other 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 ns 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 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 line. 39. Any person possessing a section of land may at any time select another adjacent thereto,- of such ibr'm that, the two together, being considered as one section, shall be in the form required for a siug'le section under the foregointr 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 •aid 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 aVays, that should any section when surveyed prove io diner 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 reinrned. 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 convoyed. The " License to Occupy" shall, in any "uch caie, he amended by the Commissioners, in accordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the Ciown Grant shall bo made out in accordance therewith; and the "license" shall be returned to he Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall be tsueri.

41. Any person making a ditch and bank fence on lands adjoining Waste Lands of the Crown may takeout 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. VIII. —COMPENSATION LANDS. 42. Whereas it is desirable that private persons ;hould be enabled to receive portions of Waste Land in exchange for private lands taken for roads or for other pubfie purposes; if any person shall be'entitled ro receive any oouipensatibit in respect of any land which shall nave 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 and lor such purposes, such person shall, unon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a grant of rural land in such situation as lie shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and frontage in these regulations contained, to the extent of one acre tor every two pounds sterling of the amount of compensation which the applicant shall be entitled to receive in respect of the land taken for such purposes or in respect of such damage as aforesaid. -

43. If any person shall contract with the Superintendent to make and complete, within a given time, any public road, bridge, or drain, or any part of any such road, bridge, or drain, furnishing such security as the Superintendent may require for the'due completion of such contract, and shall select such portion of rural land as he shall be willing to accept by way of payment or compensation, or by way of part pay-