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Commissioners when the Crown Grant shall
be issued.

41. Any person making a ditch and bank
    fence to lands adjoining Waste Lands of the
    Crown may take out of such Waste Lands
    half the the land required for the ditch and
    bank. Provided that no ditch or bank shall
    be more than six feet in width.

VIII.—Compensation Lands.

42. Whereas it is desirable that private
    persons should be enabled to receive portions
    of Waste Land in exchange for private lands
    taken for roads or for other public purposes; if
    any person shall be entitled to receive any
    compensation in respect of any land
    which shall have been taken for the purposes
    of a road or of any other public work, or in
    respect of any damages done to his property
    by the taking of such land for such purposes,
    such persons shall upon application to the
    Waste Lands Board be entitled to a grant of
    rural land in such situation as he shall select
    subject to the conditions as to form and fron-
    tage in these regulations contained, to the ex-
    tent of one acre for every two pounds sterling
    of the amount of compensation which the
    applicant shall be entitled to receive in respect
    of the land taken for such purposes or in
    respect of such damage as aforesaid.

43. If any person shall at any time have
    made and completed at his own private cost
    any public road or bridge or any public main
    drain or any part of such road, bridge, or
    drain, such person shall upon application to
    the Waste Lands Board be entitled to a free
    grant of rural land in such situation as he shall
    select, subject to the conditions as to form and
    frontage, in these regulations contained, to
    such an extent as the Board shall adjudge not
    exceeding one acre for every four pounds
    sterling, which he shall prove to the satisfac-
    tion of the Waste Lands Board that he shall
    have actually expended in the construction of
    such road, bridge, or drain.

Provided always that it shall be proved to
the satisfaction of the Board that the money
so expended by the applicant has been bene-
ficially expended for the use and advantage of
the public. Provided also that no application
for less than 20 acres shall be received under
this clause but that where any amount of
compensation awarded by the Board shall be
of a less amount than 20 acres of land the
party entitled may pay the balance in cash
upon the same terms as other applicants to
purchase rural lands under these regulations.

IX.—Naval and Military Bounties.

44. Whereas the Superintendent and Pro-
    vincial Council and other the inhabitants of
    Canterbury, are desirous to aid in making
    provision for the maintenance of such persons
    of Her Majesty's land and sea forces as may
    be discharged as unfit for further service in
    consequence of wounds or loss of health in-
    curred in the present war with Russia, and
    also for the maintenance of the widows of
    those who may be killed in such war :—

Any such person or widow shall upon ap-
plication to the Waste Land's Board, and
upon the production of satisfactory evidence
from the proper authorities as to such dis-
charge or death, be entitled to receive a free
grant not exceeding 30 acres of the Waste
Lands within this Province, subject to the
conditions as to form and frontage contained
in these regulations; Provided always that
such application shall be made to the Waste
Lands' Board by such person or widow in
person, within 3 years after such discharge
or death.

X.—Pasturage.

45. Until sold, granted, or reserved for
    public purposes as herein provided, the
    Waste Lands may be occupied for pasturage
    purposes by persons holding licences from
    the Waste Lands Board to occupy the same.

46. Any person applying for a pasturage
    licence shall state to the Commissioners what
    are the boundaries and extent of the run ap-
    plied for, and the number and description of
    the stock which he possesses, or will under-
    take to place upon the run within twelve
    months from the date of the licence.

47. The extent of run allowed to each ap-
    plicant shall be at the rate of 120 acres to
    every head of great cattle, and 20 acres to
    every head of small cattle. The words
    “great cattle” shall be construed to mean
    horned cattle, horses, mules, and asses, male
    and female, with their offspring above six
    months of age; and the words “small cattle”
    shall be construed to mean sheep, male and
    female, with their weaned offspring.

48. Every pasturage run shall be in one
    block, and, as far as circumstances will admit,
    of a rectangular form: the frontage, under
    ordinary circumstances shall not be greater
    than one-half the depth.

49. The fee to be paid for the licence shall
    be at the following rates:—For every run
    containing less than 1000 acres, twenty shil-
    lings for every 100 acres; for every run con-
    taining 1000 acres, and less than 5000 acres,
    two-pence per acre for the first thousand, and
    one penny per acre for every acre in addition.
    For every run containing 5000 acres or up-
    wards one farthing per acre for the first and
    second years, one halfpenny per acre for the
    third and fourth years, three farthings per
    acre for the fifth and every subsequent year;
    Provided that the first year shall be taken to
    be the time elapsing from the date of the ori-
    ginal licence to the first day of May next fol-
    lowing.

50. No pasturage licence shall be granted
    for a less annual fee than £2 10s.

51. The fee shall be paid to the Treasurer
    of the Waste Lands Board every year, in ad-
    vance, for the first year on the issue of the
    Licence, and for the second and every subse-
    quent year on the first day of May; and every
    pasturage licence not renewed by payment of
    the required fee on the first day of May, shall,
    unless good cause to the contrary be shown,