136 CROWN LANDS. 



LICKXSK FOK FISH-BRKKDIXG. 



T]ie lOtli !<eftioii iiroviiles for leasing for a ti'im oi' years the- 

 use of any pond or river, and sucli quantity of land ailjoining as- 

 jiiay be necessary for such 2)uri)Ose8, suliject to such terms and 

 conditions as may be deemed necessary. 



HOMESTEAD LAW— (36tli VICTORIA.) 



Sections 24 to 48, inclusive, provide for Homestead Estates 

 and Homestead rights. Any person who shall settle on any of 

 the wilderness lauds of the colony and cultivate and improve 

 the same, and erect a (hvelling-house thereon, shall lie entitled 

 to an estate of homestead therein not exceeing twenty acres, and 

 xuch homestead, and all right and title therein, shall l>e exempt 

 from attachment, le\y, or execution, sale for the payment of his 

 tlebts or othei- purposes, and from the laws of conveyance, dis- 

 tribution, anil devise or bequest, except as further provided in 



the Act. 



GRAXT IN FEE FOR HOMESTEAD. 



Any head of a family, or male of tlu' age of eighteen, may, 

 hy paying a fee of S'lO, obtain a location ticket for any ([uantity 

 not exceeding one humlred and sixty acres for the purpose of 

 securing a homestead right. To secure a grant in fee of such 

 homestead, the holder of the location ticket must commence 

 clearing within six months after its date ; must build a house tit 

 for habitation of not less dimensions than twenty feet by sixteen, 

 iind clear and cultivate not less than three acres within two 

 years, six acres within three years, and continuously cultivate 

 all the land cleared during sucli three years, and reside con- 

 tinuously upon such land for the term of three years next suc- 

 ceeding such date, and thence up to the issue of the grai^t. 



A person holding a location ticket for a homestead right shall 

 be entitled, on payment of a fee of ten dollars, to receive a license 

 to occupy an adjoining one hundred and sixty acres, or less, 

 quantity of Crown land then unreclaimed ; and, at tlie expira- 

 tion of the period of three years, he shall be entitled to a grant 

 of tlie said land so licensed at the Government ]iriiH' of thiity 

 cents an acre. 



