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taining respectively more than 640 acres provided that no such lands shall be so offered for sale until the Superintendent shall have given notice in such Gazette of such intended sale and until one calendar month shall have elapsed from and after the appearance of such notice.

Scrip.

35. In all sales of the said waste lands whether by auction or otherwise, all Scrip to be issued under any Act or Acts of the Local Legislature of this Province shall be deemed and taken to be money for the amount for which the same shall have been issued and shall be receivable for such amount as payment or part payment for any allotment of the said waste land to be sold under and subject to these Regulations.

Land containing Minerals.

36. The Superintendent shall and may from time to time, as to him it may seem meet, lease by public auction or public tender (excepting in the case hereinafter mentioned) in allotments not containing more than 160 acres, and for any term not exceeding 21 years, any of the Waste Lands containing minerals, unto such persons as may desire to become the lessees thereof.

37. In the event of any person discovering minerals in such Waste Lands, the Superintendent may lease unto him by private contract an allotment of such Waste Lands not containing more than 160 acres for any term not exceeding 21 years, and at such annual rental as he shall deem meet.

38. In every lease of Waste Lands containing minerals a royalty shall be reserved to the Crown of one-fifteenth of the minerals to be raised in the allotment thereby demised, and such lease shall contain clauses for the several purposes following, namely:—

39. For securing the payment of the royalty or rent.

40. For enabling some person, on the part of the lessor, from time to time to enter and examine the mine.

41. For securing the regular, proper, and efficient mining and working of the minerals.

42. For making void the lease on breach of the stipulations on the part of the lessee therein contained.

43. For delivering up the property at the termination of the lease in good tenantable repair.

44. For enabling the lessee to abandon the working of the minerals whenever he shall find the same unprofitable to work, and surrender the lease.

Depasturing Licenses.

39. The Superintendent may, from time to time, by license in writing, authorise any person to depasture stock on any block of the said Waste Lands.

40. Such license may be issued for any number of years not exceeding fourteen, subject to the provisions in that behalf hereinafter contained.

41. The extent of the block for which such license may be issued shall be in proportion to the number of stock to be depastured thereon by the licensee and in making computation thereof, allowance for natural increase will be made in the following proportions:—

For any number of sheep up to 500 to be granted for any number not exceeding... 500 sheep,
For every additional 100, between... 500 and 1000 for 500)
Ditto ditto... 1000 „ 3000 „ 400
Ditto ditto... 3000 „ 5000 „ 200
Ditto ditto... 5000 „ 10000 „ 100

And in no case will a block be granted capable of containing more than 25,000 sheep. In estimating runs for great cattle, one head of such cattle shall be rated as six sheep.

42. On, or immediately after the issuing of such license, the Superintendent shall notify through such Gazette that such license has been issued, and shall in such notification set forth as far as possible the situation and boundaries of the land for which the same shall have been so issued.

43. Such licensee may at any time during such license purchase of the said block at the price of £1 an acre any allotment not containing less than 40 acres, of a rectangular form, as nearly as circumstances will permit, and having, if fronting a river, road, lake, or coast, a depth of not less than three times the length of its frontage.

44. The licensee shall pay for such license on the first Wednesday in the month of January on every year during such license, unto the person whom the Governor shall in that behalf appoint, a license fee of five pounds and assessment fees of sixpence for every head of small cattle depastured on such land during the year immediately preceding, provided that such licensee shall pay on such day but one-half of the said license fee and assessment fees, if such license shall have been so issued to him on or after the first day of the month of July immediately preceding the day last named.

45. In the event of such license fee and assessment fees, or any part thereof, being unpaid for four weeks after such day of payment, the license shall be void.

46. All disputes between such licensees respecting the boundaries of their respective lands, shall be finally adjudged by the Superintendent.

47. In the event of the block for which any such license shall have been issued, or any part thereof, being reserved or sold as and in manner aforesaid, such license shall determine as to such block or part in three calendar months from and after the day whereon such reserve or sale shall have been made or effected.

Timber Licenses.

48. The Superintendent may, from time to time, by license in writing, authorise any person to cut, saw, and split timber on any section of the said Waste Lands, and to remove and dispose of the same for the use and benefit of such licensee.

49. Such license may be issued for any time not exceeding one year.

50. The licensee shall pay a fee of five pounds for the same, if issued for six calendar months or upwards; and a fee of fifty shillings if issued for less than such six months.

51. Such fee shall be paid, on the issue of the license, unto such person as the Governor shall in that behalf appoint.

52. In default of payment, the license shall be void.

53. Such licensee will be entitled to the right of purchasing eight acres of the said block at the price of one pound per acre on establishing, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent, that the same, as such licensee on the said block, fenced and other improvements to facilitate the removal of timber to the value of forty pounds.