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Canadian Agriculture. 
"All sales are subject to the following general conditions : — 
" 1. All improvements placed upon land purchased to be maintained 
thereon until final payment has been made. 
"2. All taxes and assessments lawfully imposed upon the land or improve- 
ments to be paid by the purchaser. 
" 3. The Company reserves from sale, under these regulations, all mineral 
and coal lands; and lands containing timber in quantities, stone, slate and 
marble quarries, lands with water- jjower thereon, and tracts for town sites and 
railway purposes. 
" 4. Mineral, coal and timber lands and quarries, and lands controlling 
water-power, will be disposed of on very moderate terms to persons giving 
satisfactory evidence of their intention and ability to utilise the same. 
" 5. The Company reserves the right to take without remuneration (except 
for the value of buildings and improvements on the required portion of land) a 
.strip or strips of land 200 feet wide, to be used for right of way, or other 
railway purposes, wherever the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, or any 
branch thereof, is or shall be located." 
On its own lands the Government offers 160 acres (a quarter 
section, that is) free to each settler, with the privilege of pre- 
empting another 160 acres, the conditions being stated as 
follows : — • 
" Under the Dominion Lands Regulations, all survej'cd even-numbered 
sections, excepting 8 and 26 in Manitoba and the North-West Territories, which 
have not been homesteaded, reserved to provide wood lots for settlers, or other- 
wise disposed of or reserved, are to be held exclusively for homesteads and 
pre-emptions. 
" Homesteads may be obtained upon payment of an office fee of 21., subject 
to the following conditions as to residence and cultivation. 
"In the' Mile Belt Ilescrve,' that is, the even-mmibered sections lying 
within one mile of the main line or branches of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 
and which are not set apart for town sites or reserves made in connection with 
town sites, railway stations, mounted jiolice posts, mining and other special 
purposes, the homesteader shall begin actual residence upon his homestead 
within six months from the date of entry, and shall reside upon and make tho 
land his home for at least six months out of every twelve months for three 
years from the date of entry ; and shall within the first year after the date of 
his homestead entry, break and prepare for crop 10 acres of his homestead 
quarter section ; and shall within the second year crop the said 10 acres, and 
break and prepare for crop 15 acres additional — making 25 acres ; and within 
the third year after the date of his homestead entry, he shall crop the said 
25 acres, and break and prepare for crop 15 acres additional — so that" within, 
three years of the date of his homestead entry he shall have not less than 25 
acres crojiped, and 15 acres additional broken and prejKired for crop. 
"Land, other than that included in Jlile Belt, Town Site Reserves, and 
Coal and Mineral Districts, may be homesteaded in either of the two following 
methods : — 
" 1. The homesteader shall begin actual residence on his homestead and 
cultivation of a reasonable ]iortion tliercof within six months from date of 
entr}', uidess entry shall have been made on or after the 1st day of September, 
in which case residence need not commence until the 1st day of June fol- 
lowing, and continue to live upon and cultivate the land for at least six 
months out of every twelve months for three years from date of homestead 
entry. 
"2. The homesteader shall begin actual re-iidcnce, as above, within a radius 
