SECTION TITLE XXI. OF CROWN LANDS, MINES AND MINERALS. CHAPTER 129. Of Crown Lands, Timber, Mines and Minerals. | SECTION 49.-No 50. rights to be acquired except under this Chapter. Method of staking, &c., mineral claim. 51.-Inclusion of adjoining locations. 52. Laying of locat ons on maps. 53.- Descriptions of locations. 54 -Mining leases for ninety-nine years. 55.--Official survey on application in case of doubt. 56. - Submarine and island locations. 57 - Submarine locations not to interfere with rights of shore occupants. 58.- Payment of rentals in advance; issue of grant on proof of expenditure. Priority where more than one applicant. 59. 60. 61. Leases of surface land 1. The following terms and expressions herein shall be held to have the meaning assigned to them in this section, namely: "Surveyor" means a surveyor authorized by the Minister of Agriculture and Mines to survey Crown lands, and "Crown Lands" means all lands within the Colony, the title to which is in the Crown. "Minerals” shall be construed to include petroleum and other mineral oils, and a mineral license, lease or grant shall confer the same rights with respect to such oils as to other minerals. "Timber" means trees standing or cut, or cut into lengths but not sawn into board or otherwise manufactured, and shall include bark. "Board measure" for trees cut down shall be calculated according to the Schedule hereto. 2. Copies of any records, plans, books or papers belonging to or deposited in the Department of Agriculture and Mines, attested under the signature of the Minister of Agriculture and Mines, shall be competent evidence in all cases in which the original records, plans, books or papers would be evidence. 3. No person employed in the Department of Agriculture and Mines or holding an office created by or continued under this Chapter, shall acquire or hold, either alone or with another, any grant, lease or license, under this Chapter. ORDINARY PURCHASE AND SALE OF LANDS. 4. Crown lands shall, except as hereinafter provided, be open for purchase in lots, at an upset price to be fixed by the Governor in Council, according to the location and value of such lands, the upset price in no case to be less than thirty cents per acre. Every grant of more than twenty acres shall be upon the condition that the grantee shall, within five years from the date of the grant, bona fide clear and cultivate ten acres for every one hundred acres comprised in the grant, and in the same proportion for any less quantity: Provided that, except in special cases where otherwise ordered by the Governor in Council, no grant of more than six hundred and forty acres shall be made to one person; and provided also, that such lands as from time to time may be deemed advisable by the Governor in Council, may be withdrawn from ordinary sale and settle |