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[lenses incident to Uj. colk ilium, iimniiui'iiifikt, aiill j 11 cript thereof; mm al«o to pny out of tlii-suid )"vci\iii'( | jiicli sums ;t« shall become' payable uni>r cwt.iin iillipr pnnisii us therein ront.iiuri!. The Treasurer of ilie \\ a>tt> J ;ui(!s lionrri &hal], therefore, imy out of all lip fui«i« ni'iiiiijT into his linuils under'these regulations all «iich sums tbi1 the above-named purposes, in -uch uiiinnt i- ami to such persons as the Governor ~hall direct V.—PUBI.TC irP.SEHVES. 19. Rosrivos 'or (he u«fs of the Provincial Government ami 1 r other jitihl'c purpos<>« mn\, upon thp • ciniiinciiil.itiou of tin- Pioiincial Couueil, be made >iy the Superintendent; and shall not be alienated •rom the tpppifir pi:iji<>-f9 to t\ hicii they shall have tieen scvWnlly ili-r'icm'd, picejit umltr the provisions of an An of the (juiieial Assembly, entituled tlie •' Public Reserves Act, 1854;" and a full "and complete description of every sucb reserve and of the purposes to which it shall have been drdicntpd shall, as soon as possible after it s-hall have been ,marie, be ptiliiiahcd in the Government Grtxrfte ot'thc Province, and set forth on tl.e authenticated maps in the Land Office. Provdcd that the Superintendent may. U 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'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 dispose of the land theretofore used for the same. ■ 21. The" Superintendent may temporarily, reserve any laud for the preservation or sale of the timber thereon; but such land may at any time cease to beso reserved upon a resolution of the Provincial Council. ■■'.'' ■..■•■'■ i . 22. The Superintendent may, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Council, byjiroelamation in the Government/Crflzeiteji-eservefrom the operation of these regulations any bract of country in which the precious metals may be- found to exist: and the laud within such tract of country shall be disposed of according to regulations hereafter to be issued and published in that behalf; in the same mariner 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 Lands shall be sold by public auction, in sections, the size and upset price of wliich shall be determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; ami 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 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 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 shallj 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. Teh days at least before any such auction sale, a list of all the sections about to be ofjfered for sale shall be published in the : Government Gaze tte, and one or more newspapers of the Province. = 80. 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 often per cent, of the purchase money to the Treasurpr, and in default thereof, the section shall be again immediately put up to auction. . -, paid to the Treasurer in. full, within one week after 39. The remainder of the purchfisfl,money shal Ibp 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; anfl thp .section maybe sold to any person applying for the same fortlie price at which* it was knocked down at the auction';',, and/ if not so sold, the section may be again put lip to auction at any future sale. ...-.■... 33. Upon ..paynieptof'lhe purchase money in fiill," the purchaser shall reeeiye-from the.Commissioners-a- ---" License to Occupy," in tlie 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. Til. —KURAIi LAND, - l--34. All lands not included In'any of the foregoing regulations shall be open.for sale as rural laud, 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 theiupset 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 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 'n one block, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage line jshall 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 ■winch 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 o.tljer frontage linos, 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 ias 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 tlie sides may be equal, butone sfde may not be less than one-third of the other j 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 tog-ether, being considered as one section, shall be in the'form required for a singlesection under the fpregpincc 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 maybe, tlie 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 be made as soon as practicable, by''order'of the. Chief Surveyor. Provided a'waysy that should any section when surveyed prove to. differ in any respect from that intended by the (jurchaser, the Government will not be responsible tor any loss or inconvenience wliich the purchaser nuiy 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 bejiiade 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 bank fence on. lands adjoining Waste Lands of the; Crown may take 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. VIII. —COMPENSATION LANDS. 42. Whereas it is' desirable that private persons 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 'aiv compensation in respect of any land wLich sliall have been taken for tlie purposes of a road or of any other public workj'or jn respect of any damages done tp his property by the taking of such land for such purposes, such person shall, unon application to the Waste Lands Board, be entitled to a grant of rural land in such situation as he shall select, subject to the conditions as to form and fi'ontagc in these regulations contained, to tlie extent of one acre for 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 ' tr is. ropec* of wen damage m aforesaid,