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p 'nswincidcnFfo^iie^bllcctio^'manacelneivEj-anff i i-ceipt tlierpi if; and also to pay qutpf thesftid rpvenucs .such- sums_as_sliaU_beconiclpayable under.-cc: tarn. 'other.pnrusioTi'-'theiein contalu«d._ The Treasurer of the-Waßte Lands Board-shall, therefore,-pay outof all the funds coi.iititr iuto,liis hands, under these regulations all suc7i sums for tlic abo\c-namrd purposes, "in such mannrr-and'- to such persons as the Governor shall direct. > .. : ;.. . ~, " • I ! V.— VVBI.TC RESERVES. 19. Reset \ps for tLe uses, of the .Provincial GovernVriwrt aHdfW'pthiT'iiub'ic put-pose* may,-upon the ecommenil.-u"ion'i')fTlie"Pro\hicial Council, be made by the-Superintendent; and shall not be alienated from the 'specific purposes, to which they sjhall have been severally dedicated, exee'p't under the provisions of an 'Act of the General' Assembly, entituled the " Public|Kesenes Act,,1854;'.' aud~a full.and complete description 'of Tevery such reserve and of the purposes .to which it shall have 'been dedicated -ah'all, as soon ns possible after it shall have -bepn -made, be published iii the 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 the authenticated maps in the Land Office. Tiie Superintendent and the Provincial Council may by Ordinnncc 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 fit any time cease to be so reserved upon a resolution of the Provincial Council, f 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 lann witliin 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 un<\er 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 which shall be determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council;! nnd having been so determined, for each town severally, shall not again be altered. 25. The time wd place of every auction sale, shall be fixed by the Superintendent, and shall be notifieel in the Government Gazette, and one or more news"-' papers 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 ot some person wlib shall, at the time of malting such application, deposit ten per cent, of the upset price wth the Treasurer of the _Waste Lands Board. Such deposits shall, if no advance on the upset price oemade, be consideied 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 he forthwith returned on demand. 29. Ten days'at least before nny such auction sale; a list of all the sections about to be offered for sale shall be ptiblished 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. • . i ' 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, thesection s,hall be again immediately put up to auction, paid to the Treasurer in full, within one week after 82. .The remainder of the purchase money shnl Ibe the day of sale; and, 'inTdefault 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 was knocked down at the auction; and, if not so sold, the sect;on may be again put up to auction at any future sale. 33. Upon payment of the purchase money in full; the purchaser snail 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 Uie Commissioners upon repeipt of n Crpwn Qrant of the land purchased. Til. —KURAL LANP. 34. All lands nut1 included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be open for saje 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 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.;with 'Pi.-e^, emptive 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 si ction. ; . ' 36. Every section of rural land shall be vi one bloqk, and, except as hereinafter provided, of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage line ,shall be ot'a depth of half a mile (or 40 chains) from such frontage. Note. —A frontage line shall be taken to mean tho 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 10m 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 as 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 frdntaee line. 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 one7 section, shall be in the form required for a single section under the foregoinc rules. , v 40. Immediately on the payment of the purchase money, ,the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners ai" 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 lands selected lie without the surveyed districts, the expense of the survey and of connecting such survey-with the existing surveys shall be boi-ne 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. . Providedal nays, that'should any section when surveyed prove to differ >in any respect from that intended by the purchaser, the Government will'not be responsible tor any loss or-inconvenience which the purchaser may 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 ot the quantity paid for by the purchaser, the Treasurer shall repay so much of the pui chase,money as exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The •' License to Occupy" shall, in any sucii 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 Grant shall be ssucd. ' , - , - 41.-Any person making a ditch and bank fence on lands adjoining Waste Lands of the Crowii may take out of such lands half the land required for the ditch andbanU:, provided,that no ditcn ay bank shall be more than 'six feet in'width. .' . . ... VIII.—OQMPKSBATION I*ANpB. . * 42. Whereas it is desirable that private persons should be enabled to receive portions of Waste Land in exchange for private lauds 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 ttie purposes of a road or of any otheivpublic work, or in respect of any damages done to his property by the taking of such land tor such purposes, such person shall, unon application to the,. Waste Lands Board,.be entitled to a grant of rural land in such situation as Be shall,select, subject to the conutions as to form and frontage m, these regulations contained, to the extent of one acre for every two pounds sterlinar of the amount of compensation -which the- applicant- shall be entitled to receive in Tespect of .the land taken for such purposes .•rimxwjiW sfjiwlitawig*•»aiwiMi*.' «- ...