196 OSTRICH-FARMING IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



newspaper, such notice to state the minimum rent that 

 T^dll be accepted." 



^^ First year's rent to be paid in advance, and sureties 

 given for the next two, or, in heu of such sureties, two 

 years' rent to be paid in advance." 



" The rent can at any time be capitalised by the pay- 

 ment of twenty times the amount, or portions of not 

 less than one quarter at a time can be so capitalised." 



" The expenses of survey, erection of beacons, and of 

 the title-deeds, to be paid at any time the government 

 may fix." 



" The nature of the tenure to be known as ^ Per- 

 petual Quitrent,' and subject to a special servitude 

 that may be stated in the conditions of sale ; as also all 

 roads marked on the diagram to remain open, unless 

 closed as by law is provided. Government has the 

 right to resume possession of part or the whole for 

 public purposes on compensating the owner, and re- 

 serves deposits of gold, silver, or precious stones." 



** All lands not disposed of under this Act to be 

 leased for any term not exceeding three years." 



*^ The exceptions are, agricultural lands disposed of 

 Auder the acts of 1870 and 1877, and where a piece of 

 Crown land adjoins that of private owners ; when, after 

 certain due formalities have been gone through, the 

 government may dispose of such piece of land privately 



