191 



HECEIPTS FROM BONUSES AND GROUND RENTS ALONE, DURING THE UNION 

 OF THE PROVINCES OF CANADA, so FAR AS THESE HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED. 



Fiscal years. Amount. 



1856-'57 $244,112 90 



1957-'58 203,263 59 



1858-'59 276,741 16 



1859-'60 . '. 316,983 35 



1860-'61 290,933 04 



1861-'62 283,383 31 



1862-'3 309,252 15 



1863-'64 325,294 51 



1864-'65 324,535 61 



1865-'66 300,486 18 



1866-'67 369,800 53 



RECEIPT AND EXISTING TIMBER REGULATIONS IN CANADA. 



(a) Dominion Lands. These lands, in Manitoba and the North-west 

 'Territories, are in charge of the Department of the State and a division thereof 

 styled " The Dominion Land Office." The act under which they are administered 

 was assented to April 14th, 1872. The surveys are conducted by the Surveyor- 

 general and his deputies, and there are various agents concerned in the duties 

 incident to this interest. 



The system of surveys is by townships six miles square, sub-divided into 

 sections of one mile square each, unless this arrangement is modified by the 

 divergence of meridians, irregularities in previous surveys, or other causes. 

 There is an allowance of one chain and fifty links between all townships and 

 sections for roads. The townships are numbered northward from the inter- 

 national boundary, or the forty-ninth degree north latitude, and in Manitoba, 

 east and west from a principal meridian, ran in 1869, that strike? this line of 

 latitude about ten miles west of Pembina. The sections are numbered from one 

 to thirty-six in each township, beginning at the south-east corner and running 

 alternately from east to west and from west to east, so that the last number shall 

 be in the north-east corner. In this the order of numbering is just the reverse 

 of that employed on the surveys of public lands in the United State?. Sections 

 eleven and twenty-nine in each township are reserved for education. 



The sections are divided into sixteen squares of forty acres each, numbered 

 in the same way as the sections in townships, beginning at the south-east corner. 

 The lines running north and south are designed to be true meridians, and those 

 running east and west are chords intersecting circles of latitude passing through 

 the angles of the townships. 



The terms and conditions of the deed of surrender from the Hudson Bay 

 -Company stipulated a reservation of one-twentieth part of the portion described 

 .as the " fertile belt," which rendered it necessary to modify the general plan, 

 -and in the prairie region, where there are islands or belts of timber, a special 

 mode of sub-division was provided, with the view of affording benefit to the 

 greatest possible number of settlers, and for the prevention of petty monopalies. 

 In these cases the woodlands are surveyed into lots of not le?s than ten nor more 

 than twenty acres each, so as to afford one wood-lot to every quarter -sectio a of 

 prairie farm in each township. This, however, is not allowed to interfere with 

 the sections set apart for schools, nor to those set apart and vested in the Hulson 

 Bay Company. Each wood-lot is required to front on a section road-allowance. 



