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2. Suburban Land—being the land in the immediate vicinity of Town and Village sites.

3. Rural Land—being the Waste Lands of the Crown within any proclaimed Township or Hundred, and not comprised in one or other of the above two classes.

4. Such division into classes shall, before the same come into force, be approved by the Superintendent and his Executive Council, and when so, from time to time approved of, the land therein respectively comprised shall immediately be notified and declared by the Waste Land Board in the "Provincial Government Gazette," as open to settlement according to the terms of these Regulations, on such after a day to be named in such notice.

5. We land to be sold or alienated, unless proclaimed as above, saving to lessees of depasturage Runs, and that only to the extent of a steading or station for each Run, as provided by Ordinances Session X. No. 1, and Session XI. No. 16. But parties who may desire to purchase and settle on any land, not so proclaimed, may apply to the Waste Land Board, which, on being satisfied, will report and recommend the site; and the same, if approved by the Superintendent and Executive Council, shall be proclaimed in the "Provincial Government Gazette." All such reports of the Waste Land Board to be communicated to the Provincial Council, if sitting, or otherwise within such days after its next meeting.

6. So soon, and at any time within the said period of four years, as the holder of such Certificate shall report to the Waste Land Board, that his outlay on improvements has been equal to £2 an acre for Rural, or £3 an acre for Suburban Land, and the Waste Land Board shall have verified the same to its satisfaction, by the inspection and report of one of its Members, or of such other person within the district where the land is situate as shall be appointed thereto by the Waste Land Board, the possessor of the land shall forthwith have the right to exchange his Certificate for a Crown Title in the usual manner.

7. It shall be lawful for the holder of such Certificate, with consent of the Waste Land Board, to dispose of the same, on shewing that his outlay on improvements has been not less than 20s. an acre for Rural, or 30s. an acre for Suburban Land, and on payment to the Waste Land Board of a fee of 5s. for registration of the transaction, and the issue or assign of any such Certificate holder will also have to prove, and register, with the Waste Land Board, and pay a like fee of 5s. All such new parties, whether by purchase or succession, to be subject to the conditions and obligations set forth in the Certificate, in order to the obtainment of Title.

8. All applications for this purpose of Rural or Suburban Land to be made to the Waste Land Board in writing, and the answer called for on the following or such other day as the Waste Land Board may have appointed, when the applicants will be prepared to pay the 10s. an acre; and receive their Certificates. Applications for the same land on the same day shall be decided by lot, unless the parties having lodged their applications for the same land on the same day, such lands do be put up to auction at 10s. an acre, but no other than the said applicants shall be allowed to bid.

9. Surveys to be made by Government, and purchasers to have their lands staked off and delivered free of survey charges, at such times, and under such arrangements, as shall be made by the Waste Land Board. But the said Board shall have power in certain cases to appoint and approve of surveys being obtained at the expense of the purchaser, and to allow for the same by a remission of payment, limiting such remission, to the actual and reasonable cost, and in no case to exceed one-half of the purchase money.

MINERAL LAND LEASES.

13. Any person applying for a lease of land, containing or supposed to contain minerals, whether within or outside of any Township or Hundred, shall be entitled to the same upon the following terms and conditions:

14. That the lease shall comprise so much land as shall, in the opinion of the Waste Land Board, be necessary for the efficient working of the minerals, not being less than 5 acres, or more than 80.

15. That the term to be granted shall be any number of years at the option of the lessee, not exceeding 21.

16. That there shall be reserved a royalty or rent of one-fifteenth of the minerals to be raised, except on coal, in respect of which the royalty or rent shall be nominal, and the object aimed at, to have coal brought to market in abundance and at the lowest price.