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Lands under the Crown Lands Ordinance acting alone, without the necessity of reference to his colleagues.

6. It shall also be the duty of the Waste Land Board to keep, for the inspection of the public, convenient maps and plans, on which shall be clearly exhibited the lands sold, the lands about to be offered for sale, and the lands which, having been so offered but not sold, are open for selection at a fixed price; and for the more ready determination of the blocks of land in question, these maps shall exhibit as many as possible of the natural features of the country, as ridges of hills, rivers, and so forth.

7. For the purpose of sale, the lands of the Province shall be arranged by the Waste Land Board under five heads—

A. Town land, being sites reserved for towns and villages.
B. Suburban land, being land in the immediate vicinity of such reserved sites.
C. Rural land, being land offering, neither from the unevenness of its surface, nor the inferiority of its character, any especial objection to profitable tillage.
D. Pasture land, being such as, from its hilly and broken character or otherwise, appears unsuitable for agricultural purposes.
E. Land believed to contain minerals of value.

LAND SALES.

8. All the lands of the Province, except as hereinafter provided, shall be sold by public auction.

9. The upset price of town land shall be such as the Waste Land Board shall, from time to time, determine.

10. The upset price of suburban land shall be fixed in similar manner.

11. The upset price of rural land shall be from ten shillings to one pound per acre.

12. The upset price of pasture land shall be from five shillings to ten shillings per acre.

13. The upset price of mineral land shall be determined by the Waste Land Board.

14. In determining within which class any particular lands are to be included:—With regard to town and suburban lands, the limits of these will be marked upon the plans, subject, however, to enlargement from time to time, at the discretion of the Commissioners. With regard to rural and pasture lands, the Commissioners will be guided, not so much by position, as by their fitness or unfitness for the purposes of tillage.

15. No land will be sold by auction until notice of the time and place, and of the upset price, shall have been given in the Gazette of the Province and in some newspaper of extensive circulation, for a period of not more than three months, nor less than one.

16. Sales of land, of which, in accordance with the foregoing clause, due notice has been given, will take place at intervals of three months.

17. At such land sales, the Commissioners will offer for sale land which has been applied for, as hereinafter provided, for, as well as such allotments of land as they may judge expedient to offer to the public.

18. No allotment of rural land will be offered for sale less than twenty or more than three hundred and twenty acres in size, nor of pasture land less than eighty or more than six hundred and forty acres.

19. No land shall be sold unless the same shall have been previously surveyed, and distinguished by an appropriate mark on the plan of the district within which it may be situate.

20. Persons wishing to purchase portions of the waste lands of the crown, not advertized by the Board as about to be sold, must lodge applications at the Land Office, describing the portion of land which they wish to purchase, and depositing at the same time a sum of money at the rate of one shilling per acre upon the computed acreage of the land so applied for. In case of the land indicated being already surveyed and marked out upon any plan in the office, it will be advertized without delay for the next auction sale which will allow the requisite public notice to be given. In case of the land not being upon any plan, it will be surveyed at the option of the Waste Land Board, either at the expense of Government or by the applicant by means of some approved surveyor; in which latter case, such applicant shall be entitled to an allowance of five acres for every hundred acres so surveyed, as compensation for the cost thereof.

21. Every allotment of land thus applied for, must, so far as circumstances and the natural features of the country will admit, be of a rectangular figure, and when fronting on a river, road, lake, or coast, no one side of the block shall be more than twice the length of any other side: provided always that, under special circumstances, the Waste Land Board may permit proprietors to complete their properties by the purchase of adjoining lands, in blocks of irregular shape and of small extent. These portions of land will, at the option of the Waste Land Board, and having relation to the average value of the land of the same character.

22. Immediate payment in cash of one-tenth of the purchase money shall be the condition