xii EEPORT OF THE No. 3 



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

 Appendices l6 to 25 inclusive, pages 60 to 83 inclusive. 



Municipal Surveys. 



On the petitions of the municipal councils of the town of Niagara, town of 

 Haileybury, township of Winchester and town of Niagara, instructions have been 

 issued to survey the lines of certain streets in the several towns and to survey the 

 concession line and road between the 10th and 11th concessions of the township of 

 Winchester across lots Nos. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and the west half of lot No. 17, in 

 the 10th concession thereof. 



The following municipal surveys have been confirmed under the provisions of 

 the Eevised Statutes of Ontario, 1897, Chapter 181, sections 14 and 15, such 

 surveys being final and conclusive. The original road allowance between the 3rd 

 and 4th concessions of the township of Garafraxa. The boundary road allowance 

 between the township of McKillop and Grey. ^ 



Particulars relating to these surveys will be found in Appendices No. 14 and 

 15, pages 58 and 59. 



Mining and Other Surveys. 



The Mining Act of Ontario requires that applicants to purchase or lease 

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

 (in triplicate) of the proposed mining claims with field notes and description by 

 metes and bounds, before any sale or lease can be carried out, and under Orders- 

 in-Council, dated February 26th, 1906, 2nd October, 1907, 7th November, 1907, 

 applicants to purchase islands, or locations for pleasure and summer resorts or for 

 agricultural purposes in unsurveyed territory, are required to file surveyor's plans 

 (in triplicate) of their islands or locations as the case may be, with field notes 

 and descriptions by metes and bounds, together with the necessary affidavits as to 

 there being no adverse claim by occupation or improvement, etc. 



Under the above Act, Orders-in-Council and Regulation^ in the Districts of 

 Parry Sound, Nipissing, Sudbury, Algoma, Thunder Bay, Rainy River and Kenora, 

 an area of 14,298 acres has been sold and patented during the year, for which the 

 sum of $185,394.22 has been received, and an area of 17,040 6-10 acres has been 

 leased at $1 per acre for the first year's rental. 



F. COCHRANE, 



Minister. 

 Department of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, October 31st, 1909. 



