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2. That all claims to the benefit of such remission shall be made within twelve calendar months next after the arrival of such person or persons within the Colony. 3. That every person claiming the benefit of such remission, shall produce to the Superintendent of the Province within which he shall reside, satisfactory evidence that he has paid the passage money to this Colony of all persons in respect of which he shall claim the same. 4. That upon the production of such evidence, the Superintendent shall give to such person a certificate stating the actual amount of remission to which he shall be entitled, and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of such title to remission, and of the amount thereof. 5. That such certificate shall be available in the purchase of lands in any part of the Province within which the person to whom the same shall be granted shall reside. 6. That upon the purchase of any lands by such person, the amount stated in such certificate of remission shall go in part discharge of the purchase money in respect of the same; but such remission shall only extend to one purchase, and shall in no case be divided. 7. That every person making use of any such claim to remission as aforesaid, shall not be entitled to alienate or to assign or transfer, or set over the lands to be purchased or acquired by ]jim under or by virtue of any certificate of remission, or to part with the possession or occupation of the same for the period of three years, to be computed from the date of the purchase of the same, without the leave in writing of the Superintendent of the Province within which such lands shall be situated, and upon breach of this condition, the lands purchased or acquired by such person as aforesaid, shall be absolutely forfeited, and revert to the Crown as demesne lands of the Crown, and all persons then in possession or occupation of the same, shall be deemed to be trespassers within the meaning of the Crown Lands Ordinance, Session X, No 1. 8. That upon the expiration of the said term of three years, and upon full and bona fide compliance by any person claiming the benefit of these regulations, with the conditions aforesaid, he shall be entitled to a grant from the Crown of the lands purchased by him, in like manner as any other purchase from the Crown. 9. Provided always, that in case of the death of any such person during the said period of three years, the lands so purchased by him as aforesaid, shall be deemed to have been lands absolutely vested in him in fee simple, and shall descend and may be disposed of by testamentary disposition accordingly, and the same shall be duly granted to the person or persons who by virtue of such descent or testamentary disposition, may be entitled to the same.—(Mr. Tavers). Question put—That the Clauses as read be inserted in the Bill. Committee divided. Ayes—lo. NOES—IB. Messrs. Wakefield Messrs. Revans E. J. Wakefield Sewell Travers Hart Forsaith Porter Lee Gledhill Picard Taylor. O'Neill Bacot Greenwood Merriman Mackay Ludlam Macandrew (teller). Weld Brown King Carleton Gray Cutten Fitzgerald Rhodes Wortley (teller). Whereupon Clause 7 of the Bill read, and ordered to stand part of the Bill. 2*