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SCHEDULE A. Field Officers £600 Captains and Surgeons 500 Subalterns and Assistant Surgeons 400 Non-Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers above the rank of Corporal, or equivalent to that rank in the Sea Service 80 Non-Commissioned Officers, being Corporals or under that rank, or equivalent to or under that rank in the Sea Service 60 Private Soldiers, Marines, and Seamen «... 40 (Alojor Greenwood.) Question put—That the Clauses as read be inserted in the Bill. Committee divided. Ayes—9. NOES—I 9, Messrs. Mackay Messrs. Revans Macandrew Gray O'Neill Brown Wakefield Monro Forsaith. King E. J. Wakefield Cutten Travers Taylor Lee Picard Greenwood (teller). Rhodes Bacot Weld ( arleton Gledhill Porter IF art Fitzgerald Sewell Ludlam Wortley (teller). No 2.—Further amendments proposed—That the following Clauses be inserted in the Bill: Provided always that a certain portion of all such waste lands shall be set apart as " working settlers' land," and such terms of purchase so to be made and issued as aforesaid, shall be subject to the provisions hereinafter made in respect of " working settlers' land." The land so to be set apart as " working settlers' land" as aforesaid, shall be at least onethird part of the said waste lands in the Province, and shall be of average quality with regard both to natural fertility and to position as respects the vicinity of wood, water, roads, and other facilities of communication with markets, and with other parts of the Province, and in blocks not exceeding 5000 acres in extent; and such land shall be disposed of exclusively to persons of the class of bona Jide working settlers on land in lots of any size not exceeding 200 acres, to any one person, at the lowest price either upset or fixed, which shall be required in the Province at the time of sale. The right of any applicant to purchase land as a bona Jide working settler upon land, shall be determined by the Waste Land Board hereinafter mentioned, after hearing such evidence (including that of the applicant) as shall be produced in support thereof or opposition thereto ; and such evidence shall be reduced to writing, and preserved as part of the records of the proceedings of the said Board. Every applicant who shall be determined by the said Board, to be entitled to purchase land as such working settler, shall be permitted to delay paying the purchase money for the same for any term not exceeding 5 years, provided that interest in the meantime shall be paid on the purchase money after the rate of 5 per cent, per annum. The Crown grant shall be made and issued on payment of the purchase money, after a bona Jide occupation, by the applicant, or his family or representative in ease of death, of at least 5 years.