£500, £800 to £6,000 stg., according to circumstances. For the smaller sum he may get a 100 acre lot in a desirable new locality, with a few acres chopped upon it and a log house. For the largest sum named he may obtain a farm which will keep 100 head of cattle, a dozen horses, a few hundred. sheep; a farm which will cut perhaps 200 tons of hay, with ample space left for plough land, pasture and wood-land. For from £200 to £1,000 a very good farm may be purchased;. £1,000 would buy and stock an improved farm, upon which an industrious man could make a very handsome living. Prices depend of course upon location, the character of the farm buildings, the acreage cleared, the acreage of interval or marsh land and various other conditions.

A farmer from Great Britain would probably be better satisfied to buy an improved farm than to take a new one,. but there is no doubt that the same amount of capital invested in a new farm in a good location would give better results than if invested in a farm already under cultivation.

Persons who desire to purchase improved farms in New Brunswick, will do well to put themselves in communication with the Surveyor General of New Brunswick, whose address is Fredericton.

A letter addressed to any member of the New Brunswick Legislature asking for information as to farms for sale would no doubt be promptly replied to.

NEW FARMS.

New farms, that is to say lots of land upon which the forest is yet standing, may be obtained from the crown or from the New Brunswick Railway Company, or from theNew Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company. The address of the agents of these companies is Fredericton,. N. B., Canada. More particular reference to the lands held by these companies will be made in a subsequent chapter.

Ungranted crown lands can be procured upon application to the Crown Land Office, Fredericton. Letters should be addressed thus:

Hon. SURVEYOR GENERAL,

Fredericton,

New Brunswick,

Canada.

It is not necessary, although it is perhaps desirable, that purchasers of crown lands should apply personally at the Crown Land Office. Negotiations and arrangements can be conducted by correspondence.

Crown Lands may be obtained in either of three ways: By purchase for money; by purchase for labor; or under the Free Grants Acts.

SALES WITHOUT CONDITIONS AS TO SETTLEMENT.

Lands which the applicant desires to purchase for money must by law be put up for sale by the Crown at public auction. The upset price is 80 cents or 3s. 9d. per acre. There is no limit to the quantity which a purchaser may buy. The terms of the sale are cash down.

All applications are made subject to a claim of "present value" for any improvement that may have been made on the lot applied for, to be determined by the Surveyor General in such manner as he may deem advisable, and if surveyed at Government expense, to a claim of three dollars ($3)* for each one hundred acres applied for. If the land applied for be unsurveyed one dollar must accompany each application to purchase, to secure an order of survey to the District Surveyor; and no single application will be received for more than two hundred acres of land. The application must be in the name of one individual, no applications being recognized which are made in the name of a company, firm or partnership.

*One dollar is equal to 4s. 1d. Sterling.

If the land has been surveyed at Government expense, three dollars must be forwarded to the Crown Land Office with the Petition. If unsurveyed, one dollar must be sent, when an order of survey will issue.

If the purchaser, at the time of sale, purchases the land at the upset price, he is allowed fourteen days in which to pay the purchase money, but if the land be sold at any advance upon the upset price, the whole amount of the purchase money must be immediately paid, or the land is again offered for sale. No conditions of settlement or residence are required under this form of application, and so soon as the purchaser has paid for the land bought, the grant thereof is issued to him.

SALES UNDER THE LABOR ACT.

Under this Act the intending settler can apply for a lot not exceeding one hundred acres, in any part of the Province. but he must become a bona fide settler thereon. Should the land he selects be unsurveyed he must forward to the Crown Land Office with his petition, the sum of one dollar, when an order of survey will issue to the Land Surveyor in whose district the land may lie. The Surveyor then makes the survey at the expense of the applicant and submits a return of the same to the Crown Land Office, which, if found satisfactory, entitles the applicant to an approval in the Royal Gazette. This gives him possession of the lot. If the land he selects be already surveyed at the time of his application, at the expense of the Government, he is required to forward with his petition the sum of three dollars as the survey fee; and if the land be vacant his application is gazetted in the usual form. Having secured his "approval," it is necessary for him to immediately comply with the conditions of the Act and the regulations thereunder. Compliance with all the conditions only entitles the applicant to his grant.

Below will be found a copy of the Act and the Regulations made under it :

AN ACT TO FACILITATE THE SETTLEMENT OF CROWN LANDS.

Passed 16th March, 1868.

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. The Governor in Council may cause eligible portions of the vacant Crown Lands to be selected for settlement in various parts. of the Province, and cause public roads to be made to and through such lands, and may have the said lands surveyed and laid off in one hundred acre lots on both sides of such road.

2. That all lots so surveyed and laid off, and all other lots of Crown Land which have been surveyed and are eligible for settlement, shall be reserved for actual settlers, and shall not be disposed of to speculators or for lumbering purposes.

3. That one hundred acres of land so surveyed be located to Immigrants or other male persons of the age of eighteen years and upwards, who do not own any other land in the Province, upon the following terms and conditions, viz:—

On payment of twenty dollars cash in advance, to aid in the construction of roads and bridges in the vicinity of his location, or upon his performing labor on such roads and bridges to the extent of ten dollars per year for three years, as may be directed by the Governor in Council or Officer appointed to superintend the same;

He shall commence improving his location immediately after obtaining permission to occupy the same, and shall within two years thereafter satisfy the Governor in Council that he has built a house thereon of not less dimensions than sixteen by twenty feet, and is residing thereon, and that he has cleared at least two acres of said land;

He shall continue to reside upon said land for three consecutive years, at the expiration of which time, provided he shall have cleared and cultivated at least ten acres of the said land, and performed the labor in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, or paid twenty dollars in advance, a grant shall issue to him of the one

hundred acres so located as aforesaid; provided always, that should the means of such person so locating as aforesaid be limited, he may from time to time, and for reasonable periods, absent himself from said land in order to procure the means of support for himself and family, without forfeiting his claim to constant residence.

4. Such person so located may, after having built a house as aforesaid, and cleared and cultivated two acres of the said land, and paid the twenty dollars advance, or performed labor on the roads and bridges to the extent of ten dollars or upwards, cut and haul lumber and timber from and off the said lot; but he shall not sell or otherwise dispose of the standing timber until he has obtained a grant of said lot.

5. Every actual settler who is indebted to the Crown on account of the lot occupied by him, provided such lot do not contain more than one hundred acres, and if he owns no other land, and has resided on such lot for three years next preceding, and has cleared and cultivated ten acres thereof, and has paid twenty dollars in cash, or performed thirty dollars' worth of labor on the roads as hereinbefore provided, shall be entitled to a grant of such lot.

7. The person to whom the land is located may bring an action for any trespass committed on the land so located while he is entitled to possession under the provisions of this Act; but nothing in this Act shall interfere with the right of the Crown to seize any lumber cut in violation of the provisions of this Act or any Regulations framed thereunder, or cut by any person other than the person to whom the same is located.

REGULATIONS CARRYING OUT PROVISIONS OF THE FOREGOING ACT.

1st. All applications for Crown Laud must be made in the name of and by the real applicant, or by his Attorney duly authorized, and the Grant shall be issued only to him, unless his claim be transferred with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

2nd. (Form of Application.)