price with the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

11. If any section shall be purchased by other than the original applicant the deposit money shall be forthwith returned on demand.

12. Ten days at least before any such auction sale, a list of all the sections about to be offered for sale shall be published in the Government Gazette.

13. Every auction sale of land shall be held by the Commissioner in open court as hereinafter provided.

14. The person to whom any section shall be knocked down, at such auction, shall immediately pay a deposit of ten per cent. of the purchase money to the Commissioner, and, in default thereof, the section shall be again immediately put up to auction.

15. The remainder of the purchase money shall be paid to the Commissioner in full, within one week after the day of sale; and, in default thereof, the purchaser shall forfeit his deposit money, and also all right or title to the land. And the section may be sold to any person applying for the same for the price at which it was knocked down at the auction: and if not so sold, the section may be again put up to auction at any future sale.

16. Immediately on the payment of the purchase money in full, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioner a “License to occupy,” in the form set forth in the Schedule A. hereto annexed, which he shall return again to the Commissioner when he shall receive the Crown Grant of the Land. Such “License to occupy” shall be transferable by endorsement, in the form set forth in the schedule.

RURAL LAND.

17. All lands not included in any of the foregoing regulations shall be open for sale as rural land at a uniform fixed price of ten shillings per acre.

18. No section of rural land shall be sold containing less than twenty acres; provided that any section so limited by frontage lines or private lands as to contain less than twenty acres, may be sold for the fixed sum of five pounds sterling.

19. Every section of rural land shall be in one block and of a rectangular form, and if bounded by a frontage line the frontage shall not be greater than one-third nor less than one-fifth of the side at right angles thereto.

Note.—A ‘frontage’ line shall be taken to mean the boundary of a road, of any reserve; of the sea, of any lake, lagoon, or river, and of any water course or stream which shall be declared by notification in the Government Gazette to constitute a frontage for the purpose of selection.

20. Where from the frontage not being a straight line or from the interference of other frontage lines, or the boundaries of private lands, the above rules in respect of form cannot be accurately observed; the form of the section shall be determined as nearly in accordance with these rules as, in the judgment of the Commissioner, circumstances will admit.

21. In sections of land not adjacent to or bounded by a frontage line, all the sides may be equal, but one side may not be less than one-third of the other.

22. Any person possessing a section of land may at any time select another adjacent thereto, of such form, that the two together being considered as one section, shall be in the form required for a single section under the foregoing rules.

23. Immediately on the payment of the purchase money, the purchaser shall receive from the Commissioner a “License to occupy,” in the form set forth in the Schedule B hereto annexed; and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, the land shall be laid off by a Government Surveyor as nearly in accordance with the description given by the purchaser in his application as these regulations will admit; but should the section when surveyed prove to differ in any respect from that intended by the purchaser, the Government will not be responsible for any loss or inconvenience which the purchaser may experience, nor will the purchase money be returned. Provided that if the Surveyor shall find that the whole extent of land in the selected locality falls short of the quantity paid for by the purchaser, the Commissioner shall repay so much of the purchase money as exceeds the price of the land to be conveyed. The “License to occupy” shall, in any such case, be amended by the Commissioner, in accordance with the report of the surveyor, and the conveyance shall be made out in accordance therewith: and the “License” shall be returned to the Commissioner when the Crown grant shall be issued. Every such “License” shall be transferable by endorsement in the form set forth in the schedule.

PASTURAGE.

24. Until sold, as above provided, the waste lands may be occupied for pasturage purposes by persons holding licenses to occupy the same.

25. Any person applying for a pasturage license shall state to the Commissioner what are the boundaries and extent of the run applied for, and the number, description, and age of the stock which he possesses, or will undertake to possess, within the Pro...