1907 DEPARTMENT OF LANDS, FORESTS AND MINES. ix 



Several other minor surveys have also been performed. 

 The surveyors' reports so far as received and examined will be found in 

 appendices 18 to 48 inclusive, pages 55 to 131 inclusive. 



Municipal Surveys. 



On the petitions of the Municipal Councils of the townships of Garafraxa, 

 Hinchinbrooke, and town of Blind River, instructions have been issued for 

 the survey of the original road allowance between parts of concessions three 

 and four in the township of Garafraxa ; for the survey of line between 

 certain lots in the third concession of the township of Hinchinbrooke and 

 for the definition of a block of land in the Town of Blind River. 



The Municipal Survey of the road allowance between the rear of lots on 

 the Middle Road, and the third concession, extending from the town line 

 between the townships of Aldborough- and Orford northwesterly through part 

 of Orford has been confirmed under the provisions of the Revised Statutes of 

 Ontario, 1897, chapter 181, sections 14 and 15, such survey being final and 

 conclusive. 



The particulars relating to these surveys will be found in appendices 

 Nos. 14 and 15, pages 50 and 51. 



Mining and Other Surveys. 



The Mines Act requires that applicants to purchase or lease mining land.s 

 in unsurveyed territory shall file in the Department, surveyor's plans (in 

 triplicate) of their proposed mining locations and mining claims, with field 

 notes and descriptions by metes and bounds, before any sale or lease can be 

 carried out, and under Orders-in-Council, dated 23rd January, 1892; 3rd 

 December 1892 ; 29th April, 1886 ; 22nd September, 1893; 26th February, 

 1906; 2nd Octobei, 1907; 7th November, 1907, applicants to purchase islands, 

 or locations for agricultural purposes in unsurveyed territory, are required to 

 file suveyor's plans (in triplicate) of their locations or islands as the case may 

 be, with field notes and descriptions by metes and bounds ; the locations to be 

 of the form and size, wherever practicable, prescribed by the Mines Act, 

 together with the necessary afiidavits as to their being no adverse claim by 

 occi-ju\tion or improvement, etc. 



Under the above Act, Orders-in-Council and Regulations^ in the districts 

 of Parry Sound, Nipissing, Algoma, Thunder Bay, Rainy River, an area of 

 15,534 3-10 acres has been sold and patented during the year, for which the 

 sum of 11,127,393.11 has been received; and an area of 3,527 3-10 acres has 

 been leased at fl.OO per acre for the first year's rental. 



F. Cochrane, 



Minister. 



Department of Lands, Forests and Mines 

 Toronto, December 31st, 1907. 



