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quays and landing-places, or for the general convenience of trade and navigation; or as the sites of churches, court-houses, markets, hospitals, prisons, or other public edifices; or as cemeteries; or as places necessary for the embellishment or health of towns, or the recreation of the inhabitants thereof; or otherwise for any purpose of public utility, convenience, or enjoyment.

4. One thirty-second part of land, of average value, in every district, shall also be set apart and reserved as an endowment for the purposes of education.

5. All such reserves shall be notified in the Government Gazette of the Province, and the lands so reserved (except such as shall be reserved as sites for towns or villages, or for purposes of education), and all roads, or reserves for roads, streets and squares throughout the Province, shall be vested in the Superintendent under "The Public Reserves Act, 1854;" and all reserves for purposes of education shall be vested in an Education Board lawfully constituted.

6. The Governor shall make such reserves for purposes of military defence, or for the civil service and use of the General Government, as he shall deem expedient.

7. Reserves, lines of road, and sections shall be laid down on the proper maps of each district, each section in a district having a distinguishing number or mark. A separate plan shall be made of each town site.

8. Roads and streets shall not be less than one chain in width, except where local circumstances shall render an adherence to this rule impracticable.

9. In laying out sections, the following rules shall be adhered to as nearly as possible :—

10. Every section shall front on a road.

11. Road and water frontage, and natural advantages, shall be equally distributed.

12. Road frontage shall not exceed two-thirds of the depth of a section, except where a road intersects a section.

13. Natural boundaries shall be taken advantage of.

14. Except in the case of natural boundaries, the sections shall be rectilinear.

15. Sections of town, suburban, and mineral land, may be of such size as the Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council, shall from time to time determine.

No section of rural land shall be less than forty, nor more than three hundred and twenty acres; nor of pasture land less than eighty, nor more than six hundred and forty acres. Within the above limits any section may at any time previous to sale be altered or subdivided by the Superintendent, with the advice of his Executive Council: provided always, that under special circumstances proprietors may be permitted to complete their properties by the purchase of adjoining lands in blocks of irregular shape and of small extent, which, at the option of the applicant, will either be put up to auction or taken by a fixed price, to be assessed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, subject to revision by the Superintendent, and having relation to the average value of land of the same character.

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 surveyors 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 consequence 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 determined upon; and all such maps shall clearly exhibit the lands sold and those about to be offered for sale, or 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 PURPOSES.

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 Executive Council, 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 Gazette, 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.