month shall have elapsed from and after such
have so paid as the purchase money there-
notifying thereof as aforesaid.
of.
16. As soon as the Superintendent shall
have so notified that any block of such lands
will be open to sale on and after a certain
day, any person desirous of purchasing any
surveyed or unsurveyed allotment, of not
less than forty acres in such block, shall by
himself or his agent make application in
writing unto the Waste Lands Commissioner;
and such application shall contain the name
of the intending purchaser, the area and
situation of the allotment, and a descrip-
tion of its boundaries.
17. In the case of such allotment being un-
surveyed, and fronting on a river, road, lake,
or coast, it must be as nearly as possible of
a rectangular form, and the depth thereof
must be at least three times the length of
such frontage, and in all cases so as not un-
duly to interfere with the advantageous di-
viding of the adjoining lands into con-
venient allotments. Provided always, that,
under special circumstances, persons de-
sirous of completing their properties may be
allowed to purchase adjoining lands in blocks
of irregular shape and of small extent.
18. Such application shall be put under
a sealed cover, on which shall be legibly en-
dorsed the name of the intending purchaser,
and the number of acres which he contem-
plates purchasing.
19. Such intending purchaser or his agent
may then tender such application for the al-
lotment therein mentioned unto the Waste
Lands Commissioner at his office, during
office hours, and the purchase money unto
the person appointed to receive the same.
20. The Waste Lands Commissioner shall
not receive such application unless such in-
tending purchaser or his agent shall, at the
time of tendering the same, exhibit to him
the receipt for the purchase money of such
allotment.
21. The Waste Lands Commissioner shall
immediately thereupon (and in the presence
of the said intending purchaser or his agent,
if such purchaser or agent should desire the
same,) enter in a minute book, to be in
that behalf by him provided and kept, a
minute of the receipt of such application and
purchase money, and of the endorsement on
such application.
22. The minutes to be so entered in such
book shall be consecutively numbered, from
one upwards, and shall set forth the date of
the reception of every such application, the
name of the intending purchaser, the num-
ber of acres which he contemplates pur-
chasing, and the amount which he shall
23. Such book shall be open to the pub-
lic for inspection at all times, during office
hours, at the Land Sales Office, during
which time any person may take a copy of
any minute entered therein.
24. The applications so received shall not
be unsealed until the first day appointed in
manner aforesaid by the Superintendent for
the sale of such block, on which day no
further applications for such block shall be
receivable.
25. The Waste Lands Commissioner
shall on the day last mentioned, and in pre-
sence of such of the intending purchasers
or their agents as may please to attend
at his office in that behalf, proceed to unseal
and open all such applications so received.
26. Where it shall appear, on unsealing
and opening the said applications, that but
one person has in manner aforesaid given
notice of his intention to purchase any one
allotment, and that he has, as in manner
aforesaid, paid the purchase money thereof,
such person shall be deemed the purchaser
of such allotment.
27. But if it should at such time appear
that two or more intending purchasers have
given such notice respecting the same allot-
ment or part thereof, and that each of them has,
as and in manner aforesaid, paid the pur-
chase money of and for the said allotment
or part thereof, as the case may be, the said
allotment or part thereof shall be disposed of
in the following manner.
28. The Waste Lands Commissioner shall
appoint a time and place whereat the said
two or more intending purchasers or their
agents, as the case may be, may attend, and
shall give notice unto them of such time and
place, and shall there and then sell by auc-
tion, to the highest bidder of and amongst
such intending purchasers or their agents,
the said allotment or part thereof (as the
case may be), and the upset price of the said
allotment or part thereof at such auction
shall be ten shillings an acre.
29. Such of the said intending purchasers
as shall be by himself or his agent the high-
est bidder at such auction, shall be deemed
the purchaser of the said allotment or part,
upon paying in manner aforesaid, unto the
person appointed to receive the same, the
additional purchase money of and for the
said allotment arising from such sale by
auction.
30. The Waste Lands Commissioner shall,
immediately after such auction, give unto
each of the unsuccessful parties thereof, or