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to by the said Superintendent and Commissioner of Crown Lands, which table of fees shall be annexed to or written upon the said lease.

11. 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 the Central Board of Education for the province.

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

13. 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.

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

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

16. Every section shall front on a road.

17. Road and water frontages and natural advantages shall be equally distributed.

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

19. Natural boundaries shall be taken advantage of.

20. Except in the case of natural boundaries, the sections shall be rectilinear; and no such rectilinear block shall be taken so as in the opinion of the Superintendent and Commissioner to render less available for sale or injuriously affect in value any other portion of the Crown lands.

21. Where the land applied for does not front upon a road, river, stream, lake, or coast, and lies at the back of sections having such frontage and any of which have been sold, the land so applied for must be divided into such blocks as to give each proprietor of the sections aforesaid an opportunity so far as practicable of purchasing some portion of the land at the back of such sections.

22. Sections, of town, suburban, and mineral land, may be of such size as the Superintendent and the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall from time to time determine. No section of rural land shall be less than ten, nor more than two hundred acres; nor of pasture land less than eighty, nor more than two thousand acres. Within the above limits any section may at any time previous to sale be altered or subdivided by the Superintendent and the Commissioner of Crown Lands, but no alteration shall take place between the time of advertising the same for sale and the time of sale: 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 not exceeding forty acres, which, at the option of the applicant, will be either put up to auction or taken by him at a fixed price; to be assessed by the Superintendent acting as aforesaid, and having relation to the average value of land of the same character.

23. 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.

SELECTIONS FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.

18. 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 five 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 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 Commissioner.

LAND SALES.

19. 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