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month after the sale. In the event of the second payment not being made within the said period of one calendar month, the sale shall be void and the deposit forfeited, and notice of such voidance of sale and forfeiture shall immediately thereon be published in the Provincial Government Gazette.

28. Subject to the proviso in clause twenty-nine contained, it shall be lawful for any person, within twelve calendar months after any such auction, to purchase any land in respect of which the deposit shall have been forfeited as aforesaid, by paying for the same in cash the price for which such land was knocked down at the auction.

Any person may within twelve months apply to purchase forfeited lot.

29. Subject also to the said proviso, it shall be lawful for any person within twelve calendar months after any auction to become the purchaser by private contract of any land so put up for sale as aforesaid and not knocked down to any bidder, upon paying for the same in cash the price at which the same was put up for sale: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent in his discretion, instead of permitting any land to be purchased as authorized by this and the last preceding section, to cause any such lands to be withdrawn from sale or to be put up again to auction in manner hereinbefore provided.

Any person may within twelve months apply privately for any lots offered at auction and not sold.

30. At any time before any such sale, the Superintendent may cause any allotments to be temporarily withdrawn from sale, or to be set apart as reserves in manner and for any of the purposes authorized by this Act.

Before any sale, lots may be withdrawn temporarily or reserved.

31. Any such land temporarily withdrawn from sale may again be offered at auction in manner hereinbefore provided.

Any lands temporarily withdrawn may be again put up to auction.

PART IV.

RURAL LANDS—CLASSIFICATION—CASH SALES AND LEASES—HOMESTEAD AND DEFERRED-PAYMENT LANDS.

32. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette, to proclaim that such blocks of land as shall be described in any such Proclamation shall be rural lands, to be dealt with in manner provided by this Part of this Act; and every such Proclamation shall name a day not less than one month from the date thereof on and after which such land as shall be described therein shall be open to be dealt with as aforesaid.

Superintendent may proclaim blocks to be rural lands.

33. All rural lands, before being so proclaimed, shall be divided according to quality into classes as follows:

Classification of rural lands.

1. First-class land.
2. Second-class land.
3. Third-class land.

And such classification shall be made by such persons, and according to such regulations and conditions, as the Commissioner shall with the approval of the Superintendent direct and appoint: Provided always that no section of land shall be more than three hundred and twenty acres.

34. The provisions contained in sections twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, and thirty-one of this Act shall apply to all rural lands which shall have been offered for sale or lease as hereinafter provided, in the same manner as in the case of town village and suburban lands.

Sections 28, 29, 30, and 31, to apply to rural lands.

Third-class Lands.

35. Third-class lands shall be offered for sale or lease by auction in manner hereinbefore provided, in respect of town and suburban lands, in such areas as shall from time to time be approved by the Superintendent, subject to the following conditions:

Third-class lands may be sold or leased at auction subject to conditions.

1. The minimum price not being less than five shillings per acre, in case of sale, and the minimum rental per acre in case of lease, shall be such as shall from time to time be fixed for each such area by the Superintendent.

2. In the case of leases there shall be reserved to Her Majesty all minerals and mineral rights within every such area, and full and complete powers to enable such rights to be exercised and enjoyed.

3. Reserves may be made of all or any portion of the timber or forest land within such area; but liberty may be given to the purchaser or lessee to cut down and remove such portions of timber or forest as may be required for improvements or domestic use upon the area so sold or leased.

4. No lease shall be for a longer term than twenty-one years: Provided that every such lease shall contain a proviso authorizing the Superintendent to resume any portion of the lands comprised therein which may be required for the purposes of occupation or settlement: Provided also that no one lease of land shall comprise an area of more than ten thousand acres.

5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said sixth section of “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1878,” contained, such of the lands referred to in the said section as may be classed as third-class lands may be sold at lower rates than mentioned in the said section or may be leased; but in either of such cases the terms and conditions shall be such as may be provided under the provisions of this Act.

   Third-class lands may be sold at lower rates than those mentioned in “The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1878.”