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comprised within the said block, with the exception of such portions thereof as may be reserved for the purpose of education, and for the sites of towns, villages, and roads.

7. On the day named in the proclamation, the Superintendent will cause each quarter of a section of 640 acres, to be offered in regular succession.

8. On the sale of the first quarter of any section, the purchaser thereof, will have the option of taking the remainder of the section at the same price, per acre. But, if the purchaser of the first quarter section decline to take the remainder, each quarter section will be separately offered.

9. A deposit of 10 per cent. upon the amount of the purchase money, must be paid down at the time of sale, and the remainder within one month thereafter. On non-compliance with these conditions, the interest of the purchaser in the land will cease, and the deposit thereon will be forfeited.

10. All land not sold by auction at or above the upset price of 10s per acre, will thenceforward be open for the selection of any purchaser at the price of 10s. an acre.

11. Applicants for the purchase of one or more quarter sections, will obtain a certificate from the Surveyor-General’s office, that the portions of land he desires, are open for purchase. He will then be required within six days of the date of such certificate, to pay into the Provincial Treasury, the full amount of the purchase money for such portions of land.

12. On receipt of the purchase money, the Provincial Treasurer will endorse the same on the Surveyor-General’s certificate, and will also issue a certificate to the purchaser, that he has paid the purchase-money for the portions of land described in the Surveyor-General’s certificate; and that he is entitled to a grant for the same, if duly recorded in the office of the Surveyor-General, in the manner hereinafter described.

13. The purchaser will then return the Surveyor-General’s certificate to that officer, who, on the receipt thereof, will record the same, and mark off the sections referred to, on the office copy of the map as sold. He will also endorse the certificate of the Provincial Treasurer as duly registered, which certificate will entitle the holder to immediate possession of the land therein referred to.

14. Any person selecting a section of land, through which any road, line, or lines of road may pass, will not be required to pay for the land appropriated to those roads.

15. Should any person who may have obtained a certificate from the Surveyor-General, fail to return the same, with the endorsement of the Provincial Treasurer thereon, to the office of the Surveyor-General, within six days from the date of such certificate; he will forfeit his title to the land specified in such certificate, if the land should, after the expiration of the six days, have been applied for by another applicant. But, he will be entitled to select other land, to the same extent, from the Waste Lands of the Crown; so, however, that should the land first applied for by him, contain an uneven quantity of more or less than one quarter section, by reason of roads passing through the same, he will not be allowed that uneven quantity, unless he purchase as much more land as the difference between that uneven quantity and a quarter section may amount to.

16. The holder of any certificate from the Provincial Treasurer, endorsed by the Surveyor-General, will be entitled to exchange the same for a deed of grant from the Crown, as soon as the same can be prepared, on the payment of a fee of 20s.

17. At the termination of every six months, the Surveyor-General will, after due notice in the Provincial Gazette, despatch a Surveyor to point out the sections sold to the purchasers thereof, and to mark the boundaries of any lands, which may have been sold in lots of less than 640 acres. But, if the purchasers of land in any particular block, to the number of 20, should apply by letter to the Surveyor-General, requesting to have the land purchased by them pointed out, or the boundaries thereof marked; The Surveyor-General will, as soon as possible thereafter, cause the boundaries of quarter sections to be marked, and fix a day for pointing out the lands purchased, in the block referred to and notify the same in the Provincial Gazette.

18. No land, excepting reserves for the sites of towns and villages, and the Suburban lands attached thereto, will be sold in less quantity than a quarter section, containing 160 acres.

TOWN AND SUBURBAN ALLOTMENTS.

19. In selecting lands for the sites of towns and villages, the Surveyor-General will apportion the extent of land to be reserved, to the probable population which may ultimately settle the same for a residence.

20. Persons desirous of purchasing town or suburban allotments, in any portion of land which may have been reserved for the site of a town or village, will make application to the Surveyor-General for the same in writing.

21. As soon as the Surveyor-General shall have received twenty applications, for the purchase of allotments in any town or village reserve, he will cause the same to be carefully surveyed and divided, into town allotments of one quarter of an acre, and suburban allotments of from 5 to 10 acres, having regard to the natural features of the land.

22. On the completion of the survey, he will make a full report to the Superintendent, touching the natural advantages of the locality, the probable increase of population in its neighbourhood, and other circumstances which may determine its character, as the probable site of a first or second rate town, or of a village.

23. The streets of all towns and villages, as well as of all public roads, are not to be less