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!- penses incident to the collection, management, and j, receipt thereof; and also to pay out ofthe said revenues ie such sums as shall become "payable under certain g otherprovisions therein contained. Tlie Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board shall, therefore, pay out of all the funds coming into his hands under tnese regulations all such sums for the above-named purposes, in . such manner and to such persons as the Governor - sliall direct. V.—PUBLIC RESERVES. ' 19. Reserves fbr the uses of the Provincial Government.and for other public purposes may, upon the ecommendation of the Provincial Councii, be made by the Superintendent; and shall not be alienated from the specific purposes to which they shall have i been severally dedicated, except under the provisions of an Act ot the General Assembly, entituled the \ '" Public Reserves Act, 1854;" and a full and comt plete description of every such reserve and of the c purposes to which it shall have been dedicated shall, f as soon as possible after it shall have been made, be f published in the Government Gazette of the Province. * and set forth on the authenticated maps in the Land t Office. Provided that the Superintendent may. if ; the Provincial Council be not then sitting, temporarily j reserve land for such purposes until the next session of siich 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. 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, f 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 ofthe Provincial Council, by proclamation 1 in the Government Gazette, reserve from the opera- ! tion 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 tliat 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 by the Superintendent, upon the recommendation of tbe Provincial Council, and shall be notified by procla- ; matioii in the Government Gazette of the Province. 24. Town Lands sliall be sold by public auction, in ' sections, the sipe and upset price of which shall be determined by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council; and having heen so determined, for each i town severally, shall not again be altered. ' 25. The time aud place of every auction sale shall i be fixed by the Superintendent and shall be notified i in the Government Gazette, and one or more news- 1 papers of the Province, at least thirty days before such sale shall take place. 1 20. No such notification of any sale of town lands < shall be published until a map ot the town, signed by I the.Chief Surveyor, shall have been laid, open for i public inspection in the Land Office; and such map ' shall set forth, accurately delineated, all the town 1 sections numbered consecutively,. sf> far as laid out, ] showing.the sections to be submitted for sale, and the ) public reserves in connection with them. i 27. Town sections may be'put up to auction, either c by order of the Superintendent, or upon the application of some person who .shall, at the time of making such application, deposit ten per cent, of the upset I price with the Treasurer of the Waste Lands Board, c Such deposits shall, if no advance on the upset price 1 oe made, be considered as the deposit upon the sale s at such public auction. 28. If any section shall be purchased by other than s the original applicant, the deposit, money shall be c forthwith returned on demand. i 29. Ten days at least before.any such auction sale, s a list of all tlie sections about to be offered for sale t shall be. published in the Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers ofthe Province. ■--:;' : s ~-• SO. Every auction sale of land shall be held by thei c Commissioners in open court a3 hereinbefore pro- 1 vided. : - 1 31. The person who shall be declared the highest i liider at such auction shall immediately pay a deposit a often per cent, of the purchase money to the Trea- r suror, and in default thereof, the section shall be again s immediately put up to auction, paid to the Treasurer in full, within one week after a 32. The remainder of the purchase money shal Ihe f the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the pur s chase shall forfeit his deposit money, and also;al right or title to the .land; and the section maybe i sold to any person: applying for the same for the price 1 at which it was knocked down at the auction; and, fi if not so sold, the section may be again put up to 6 auction nt any future sale. a 33. Upon payment of the purchase money in full; the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioners a o " License to Occupy," in the form set forth in o Schedule A to the Waste Lands Regulations, and t such License shall be restored to the Commissioners q upon receipt of a Crown Grant of the land purchased, t Til. —RURAL LAND. , 1: 34. All lands not included in any ofthe foregoing regulations shall be open for sale as rural land, at an a uniform price of forty shillings per acre. 35. Save as hereinafter provided, no section of -\ Rural Land shall be sold, containing lessthantwenty f acres; but any section so limited by frontage lines or a private lands as to contain less than twenty acres may I be sold by auction at the upset price of forty shillings o per acre; the time and place of sale, and the mode of r sale, and payment of purchase money to be as nearly t as may be in accordance with the regulations herein c contained applicable to the sale of Town Land. Pro- 1 vided, nevertheless, that if any section so limited sliall be included in a Pasturage License with Pre- fi emptive Right, the holder of such License shall be t entitled to exercise such Pre-emptive Right under fi these Regulations upon payment of the sum of forty I pounds for such section. ." d 86. Every section of rural land shall be in one J block, and, except as hereinafter provided, ofarect- t angular form, and if bounded by a frontage line ,shall t be of a depth bf half a mile (or 40 chains) from such s frontage. v Note.—A frontage line shall be taken to mean the c boundary of a road, river ? or public reserve, or any I stream or watercourse which shall have been declared t by notification-in the Government Gazette to eonsti- r tute a frontage for the purpose of selection. a 37. Where, from the frontage not being a straight g line or rom the. interference of other frontage lines, s natural features, or the. boundaries of private lands, t the above rules in respect of form cannot be accurately observed, the form of the section shall be determined t as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the t judgment of the Board, circumstances will admit. d 38. In sections of lands not adjacent to or bounded o by a frontage line, all the sides may be^qual, but one t side may not be less than one-third ofthe other; and y such section shall not be less than half a mile distant \ from a frontage line. t 39. Any person possessing a section of land'may at * any time'select another adjacent thereto, of such ] form thatthe two together, being considered as one c section, shall be in 'the form, required for a single i section under the foregoine rules. ...■'-.- r : 40. Immediately on the payment of the purchase * money, the purchaser shall receive from the Commis- t sioncrs a " License to Occupy," in the form set forth j in the Schedule B hereunto annexed; and as soon j thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall be j laid ofi'by a Government Surveyor, as nearly in ac- s cordance with the description given by the purchaser t in his application as these regulations will admit; f provided that whenever tlielands selected lie without, i the surveyed districts,* the expense of the survey and of connecting such survey with the existing surveys i shall be borne by the purchaser, who shall at the time « of purchase deposit the amount of the estimated cost c of such surveys with the Treasurer of the Waste i Lands Board, which shall be made as soon as practic- i able, by order of the Chief Surveyor. Providedalways, that should any section when surveyed prove, i to differ in any respect fi-om that intended by the i purchaser, the Government will not be responsible i fbr any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser i may experience, nor will the purchase money be re- _ turned. 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 j purchaser, the Treasurer shall repay so much of the E purchase money as exceeds the price ofthe land to be conveyed. The " License to Occupy" shall, in any j such case, be amended by the Commissioners, in ac- c cordance with the report of the Surveyor, and the. j Crown Grant shall be made out in accordance j therewith; and the "License" shall be returned to j the Comniissioners when the Crown Grant shall be. | ssued. . " !" ' I 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 • shSiild 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 any compensation 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 siich land for such purposes, sych person shell, übon applil cation to the. Waste Lands Bbprd,:be entitled to a ' grant of rurpl land in such situation as he sliall select, 1 subject to the conditions as to form and frontage in these regulations contained, to the extent of one acre t for every two pounds sterling of the amount of coinf pensation which the applicant "shall be entitled to ' receive in respect of the land taken for such purposes ■ or ii respeo* of such damage as aforesaid.