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the sitting of the Board, consider and deter- upon the recommendation of the Provincial
mine all applications in the order in Council be made by the Superintendent; and
which they shall appear in the application shall not be alienated from the specific pur-
book. Provided that if any person shall not poses to which they shall have been severally
appear himself or by some person duly autho- dedicated, except under the provisions of an
rised on his behalf before the Board when Act of the General Assembly, entituled the
called in his turn his application shall be dis- "Public Reserves' Act. 1854 :" and a full and
missed until his name shall appear again in complete description of every such Reserve,
the Book in order. Provided also that if and of the purposes to which it shall have
two or more persons shall apply at the same been dedicated shall, so soon as possible after
time to write their names in the Application it shall have been made, be published in the
Book the Chief Commissioner shall bracket Government Gazette of the Province, and set
their names, and shall initial the bracket; forth on the authenticated maps in the Land
and when they shall appear before the Board, Office. Provided that the Superintendent
the Board shall determine the priority of may, if the Provincial Council be not then
right to be heard by lot. And it shall not be sitting, temporarily reserve land for such pur-
lawful for the Board to hear any application poses until the next session of such Council.
except such as shall be made in accordance
with this regulation.

14. The Board shall keep true and detailed
    minutes of all applications made to the Board
    and all decisions thereon, and of all sums of
    money paid to the Treasurer, and generally
    of all the proceedings of the Board, and such
    minutes shall be signed by all the Commis-
    sioners present at any meeting. And such
    minutes shall be open to the inspection of all
    persons desiring to inspect the same at all rea-
    sonable hours on payment of the sum of two
    shillings and sixpence for every such in pec-
    tion.

III.---Surveys.

15. There shall be a Chief Surveyor who
    shall be appointed and removable by Warrant
    under the hand of the Superintendent, and as
    many Assistant Surveyors as shall be necessary
    who shall be appointed and removeable by
    the Superintendent upon the recommendation
    of the Chief Surveyor.

16. All surveys shall be conducted in such
    manner as the Board by any regulations to
    be made in that behalf shall direct.

17. Reserves for public highways, bridle-
    paths, and footpaths shall be made by the
    Superintendent, and shall be set forth on the
    authenticated maps in the Land Office. The
    Superintendent and the Provincial Council
    may by Ordinance alter the line of any such
    highways, bridlepaths, and footpaths, and
    dispose of the land theretofore used for the
    same.

18. The Superintendent may temporarily
    reserve any land for the preservation or sale
    of the timber thereon; but such land may at
    any time cease to be so reserved upon a reso-
    lution of the Provincial Council.

19. The Superintendent may, upon the recom-
    mendation of the Provincial Council, by pro-
    clamation in the Government Gazette, reserve
    from the operation of these regulations any tract
    of country in which the precious metals may
    be found to exist: and the land within such
    tract of country shall be disposed of accord-
    ing to regulations hereafter to be issued and
    published in that behalf; in the same manner
    and under the same authority as these present
    regulations.

IV...-The Land Revenue.

17. All payments to be made in respect of
    land shall be made to the Treasurer of the
    Board during the sitting thereof, and the
    Treasurer shall thereupon give receipts for
    the same.

18. By the 62nd clause of the Constitution
    Act the Governor is authorised and required to
    pay out of the revenue arising from the
    disposal of the Waste Lands of the
    Crown, all the costs, charges, and
    expenses incident to the collection, management
    and receipt thereof; and also to pay out of the
    said revenues such sums as shall become pay-
    able under certain other provisions therein
    contained. The Treasurer of the Waste
    Lands Board shall therefore pay out of all
    the funds coming into his hands under these
    regulations all such sums for the above-named
    purposes in such manner and to such persons
    as the Governor shall direct.

VI.---Town Lands.

23. The sites of Towns shall be determined
    by the Superintendent upon the recommen-
    dation of the Provincial Council, and shall
    be notified by Proclamation in the Govern-
    ment Gazette of the Province.

24. Town Lands shall be sold by public
    auction in sections, the size and upset price
    of which shall be determined by the Super-
    intendent and Provincial Council; and
    having been so determined, for each town
    severally shall not again be altered.

25. The time and place of every auction
    sale shall be fixed by the Superintendent, aud
    shall be notified in the Government Gazette,
    and one or more Newspapers of the Province,
    at least thirty days before such sale shall
    take place.

26. No such notification of any sale of
    town lands shall be published until a map of
    the town, signed by the Chief Surveyor, shall
    have been laid open for public inspection in
    the Land Office; and such map shall set
    forth, accurately delineated, all the town sec-
    tions numbered consecutively, so far as laid

V.---Public Reserves.

19. Reserves for the uses of the Provincial
    Government, and for other public purposes may