ceeding three years; Provided always that the land shall be sold by such Association at the fixed price of ten shillings per acre, payable in cash to the Commissioner from time to time, immediately on the sale of every allotment.

V. Whenever any reserve shall have been so made for the site of a Small Farm Settlement, a block of the adjacent land, as nearly as may be in extent one-third of the reserve, shall by Proclamation be annexed to the reserve as common land, upon which, as well as upon all unsold lands within the reserve, every resident occupier of land in the reserve, shall have a right of pasturage for a period of three years from the date of such Proclamation, the proportionate commonage of each occupier to be fixed by the Association, and during such term, none of the said common land, so annexed outside the reserve block, shall be sold nor any license for a run issued therein. At the expiration of such term, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent either to renew the same for a further period of three years, or to open the land for sale after public notice thereof for not less than three months.

VI. In every block which shall be set apart for the site of a Township, or Agricultural or Small Farm Settlement, a reserve shall be made of bush land, not less than one-twentieth of the whole extent of bush land within the limits of such block, or, if there be no bush land thereon, then a sufficient reserve shall be made from the bush land outside such block, and most convenient thereto; the timber in which reserves shall be exclusively used in common by the resident occupiers of the land in the block, for consumption thereon, but not for sale to any persons not occupiers; and any other persons felling or removing timber from such reserve, shall be proceeded against as is by law provided in respect to trespassers on Crown Land.

VII. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to make in every district a reserve of one-tenth part of the public lands, for the purposes of education; such lands to be vested in the Board of Commissioners for Educational purposes, and the proceeds thereof, as sold, to be applied to such special educational objects, as may be prescribed by Acts of the Provincial Legislature.

VIII. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to make reserves where the public advantage may require it, along the banks of navigable rivers, or along an available coast line, or otherwise, so as to prevent the undue monopoly of timber, or of road or water frontage.

XI. In all blocks reserved as townships, and agricultural settlements, (except always the special Small Farm reserves), no land shall be sold until it has been accurately surveyed, allotted and mapped, and each allotment distinguished by appropriate marks on the ground; nor shall any allotment exceed acres in extent.

APPLICATIONS.

X. The General Register of applications for land, and the local Registers, where such shall exist, shall be open to the inspection of the public daily during office hours; and any one may take a copy of any application from such register, or of any other entry therein.

XI. All applications made upon the same day shall, for the purpose of the following rule, be deemed simultaneous applications.

XII. In cases where simultaneous applications shall be made for the same piece of land, an auction shall be held as between the applicants, the land named in the application being put up at the upset price of ten shillings per acre, and the application shall be registered in the name of the person who shall bid and pay the highest price. Provided that either or all of the conflicting applications may be withdrawn.

XIII. A return of every application received and registered, distinguishing the name of the applicant, extent of land purchased, payments made, and any other particulars necessary for the full information of the public, shall be made monthly by the Commissioner, and published in the Provincial Government Gazette.

AUCTION SALES.

XIV. No Sales by Auction shall take place, except the same shall have been notified by Proclamation of the Superintendent in the Government Gazette, specifying the several allotments to be offered for sale, with the contents of each. Provided always, that no allotment shall be offered for sale unless the same shall have been first staked out upon the ground and distinguished by an appropriate number or mark upon a plan open to public inspection: And provided also, that no allotment, the upset price whereof shall be five shillings per acre, shall exceed 640 acres in extent.