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11. An authentic copy of the map or plan
    of every district and town site, signed by the
    principal surveyor, and all reports of the sur-
    veyors respecting the same, shall be deposited
    in the Land Office, and shall at all times
    thereafter, during office hours, remain open
    to public inspection. And any correction in
    the said maps and plans, requisite in conse-
    quence of further reserves, or of alterations in
    the size or shape of any section of land or town
    site, or otherwise, shall be duly made at the
    time when such reserve or alteration is deter-
    mined upon; and all such maps shall clearly
    exhibit the lands sold and those about to be
    offered for sale, which, having been so
    offered, but not sold, are open for selection at
    a fixed price; and for the better information
    of the public with respect to such lands, there
    shall be delineated on the maps as many as
    possible of the natural features of the country,
    as hills, rivers, woods, and so forth.

III.—SELECTIONS FOR RELIGIOUS PUR-
POSES.

12. Ministers, or trustees of religious bodies,
    shall, either before or after any district is open
    for selection, be at liberty to apply to the
    Superintendent for permission to purchase
    land, not exceeding one acre in any town site,
    as sites for churches, chapels, schools, or other
    buildings devoted to religious purposes, and
    not exceeding twenty acres in any country
    district for burial grounds, or as sites for
    churches, chapels, or schools; and upon any
    such application being recommended by the
    Superintendent, with the advice of his Exe-
    cutive Council and the Commissioner of Crown
    Lands, the applicants or other persons on
    behalf of the religious body shall be permitted
    to purchase the land applied for, at such rate
    as shall be fixed by the Superintendent and
    his Executive Council, not being less than ten
    pounds an acre for town land, or ten shillings
    an acre for other land.

IV.—LAND SALES.

13. The Superintendent shall from time to
    time, by proclamation in the Government Ga-
    zette, notify the districts which shall be open
    to general purchase, and all lands about to be
    offered for sale, and the class to which they
    respectively belong.

For the purposes of sale the lands of
the province shall be classed by the Superin-
tendent, with the advice of his Executive
Council and the Commissioner of Crown
Lands, under five heads:—

A. Town land, being sites reserved for
towns and villages.
B. Suburban land, being land in the vi-
cinity of such sites.
C. Rural land, being land neither from
the unevenness of its surface or the quality
of its soil unsuited for tillage.

D. Pasture land, being such as, from its
hilly and broken character or inferior
quality, appears unsuitable for agricultural
purposes.

E. Land believed to contain minerals of
value.

15. In determining within which class any
    particular lands are to be included, town and
    suburban lands will be distributed so as to
    promote the settlement of the country, subject
    to enlargement or alteration from time to
    time. With regard to rural and pasture lands,
    their fitness or unfitness for the purposes of
    tillage, rather than their position, will be con-
    sidered.

16. All lands, except as is otherwise herein
    provided, shall be sold by auction.

17. The upset price of town and suburban
    land shall be fixed by the Superintendent,
    acting with the advice of his Executive Council
    and the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

18. The upset price of rural lands shall be
    from ten shillings to twenty shillings per acre,
    and of pasture lands from five shillings to
    ten shillings per acre, to be fixed in like
    manner.

19. The upset price of mineral land shall
    be fixed in like manner, subject to the provi-
    sions of clause 45 as to any land included in a
    mining lease.

20. No land shall be sold unless the same
    shall have been previously surveyed and set
    out upon the ground, and distinguished by an
    appropriate mark on the plan of the district
    within which it may be situated.

21. No land shall be sold by auction until
    the land to be sold, and the upset price there-
    of, and the time and place of sale, shall have
    been proclaimed in the Government Gazette,
    and some newspaper circulated within the
    province, for a period of not less than one
    calendar month, nor more than three months.

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

23. Any person wishing to purchase por-
    tions of the waste lands of the crown not ad-
    vertised as about to be sold, must lodge an
    application at the Land Office, describing the
    portion of land he wishes to purchase,
    and must deposit at the same time a sum of
    money at the rate of one shilling per acre upon
    the computed acreage of the land applied for.
    In case of the land indicated being already
    surveyed and marked out upon any plan in
    the office, it will be advertised 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