CHAPTKR VI. 

 THE CROWN LANDS' ACTS. 



COXSOI.IDATKD 1891. 



The law wliirli n'gnlatos IIk' sale or loasing of ( 'i-owii Lands, 

 foi' a<,n-icultuval, liimlH'riiig or iniiiiiii; i)Ui'i)os(.'s, is of the mo.st 

 lilicral cliaractcr, and well calrnlatcil 1o proinoti' the settlement 

 .of tlie country and the devcloimu'ut of its natural resources. 



The Crown Lands Acts, Consolidated 1891, (a copy of which 

 may he olttained l)y apjjlication at the office of the Surveyor 

 • General) amend all former Land Acts, and consolidate all former 

 statements I'elatinj^r to Crown Lands into one elahorate and com- 

 ]iendious enartnicnt. 



TOAVNSHir SI:RVKYS. 



Thest' Acts first provide lor tlic laying olf of Crown Lands as 

 fai' as practicalile, in (niadiilaleral townships, containing thirty- 

 six sections of one mile s(piai(' each. Each section is to be 

 divided into ([uarter seriions of l(jO acres. Provision is ahso 

 made for grants of a half-quarter section, or eighty acres, and of 

 a ijuarter-(|nartei' section, or forty acres. 



OKBIN AKY rURCHASK AXD SALK OF I.AND. 



Section 12th ])rovides that unapju'opriated Crown Lands, the 

 surveys of which have liccn duly made, shall be ojien for pur- 

 . chase, in entire sub-di vision of sections, or in lots, at an Tipset 

 ]trice to be tixed by the ( iovernoi' in Council, according to the 

 location and value of such lands, the upset })rice in no case to be 

 less than thirty cents per acre. Every such grant to be upon the 

 condition that the grantee shall, within five years from the date 

 of the grant, buna fide clear and rultivate ten aci-es for every one 

 hundi'ed acres comprised in the grant, and in the same proportion 

 for any less (piantHy. 



