5. If the location is situated within territory which has not been subdivided, but where one or more township lines have been established, it shall be connected with some point on such established boundary.

6. Having so marked the location on the ground, the claimant shall within thirty days thereafter file with the Agent for the Land District within which the location is situated, an application for the same with a sketch showing its position, and if within a surveyed tract the quarter-section within which it is situated.

7. If within thirty days after staking a location the claimant has not made application to the Agent therefor, it shall be open to any other applicant who complies with the requirements of these Regulations.

8. Where two or more persons lay claim to the same location, the right to acquire it shall be in him who can prove that he was the first to discover mineral deposit involved, and to take possession by demarcation in the manner prescribed in these Regulations of the location covering it.

9. When there are two or more applicants for a location, no one of whom is the original discoverer, the Minister of the Interior, if he sees fit to dispose of the location, shall invite their competitive tenders.

IO. A permit to mine coal on the location staked out will be issued upon payment of, the annual rental of five dollars for any area less than one acre, and for an area of one acre or over, at the rate of five dollars an acre. Returns on a form to be furnished by the Department of the Interior shall be made by the permittee every month to the Agent of Dominion Lands within whose district the location is situated showing the quantity of coal mined, and payment shall at the same time be made of the royalty thereon at the following rates-namely, twenty cents per ton for anthracite coal, fifteen cents per ton for bituminous coal, and ten cents per ton for lignite coal. Even if no coal has been mined during any one month, the permittee shall send in a return to that effect.

A declaration as to the truth of the return shall be made before a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner, or an Agent of Dominion Lands, but if the location is not situated within a radius of five miles of the place where such declaration can be taken, it will be sufficient if the permittee sends in an interim

return of the coal mined during the month and pays the roy alty thereon. In such case, the permittee shall every three months make a declaration before a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner, or an Agent of Dominion Lands, as to the accuracy of such returns for the next preceding period of three months and send it to the Agent of Dominion Lands.

11. A permit may, in the discretion of the Minister of the Interior, be renewed from year to year so long as the land described therein is vested in the Crown, provided the permittee has complied with all the requirements of these Regulations, and is operating his mine to the satisfaction of the Minister.

If at any time during the period the permit is in force the permittee desires to cease operations on his claim, he may do so on making to the Agent of Dominion Lands a return of all coal mined between the date of his last return and the date upon which he ceased operations, paying the amount for royalty and ground rent, and returning the permit issued to him.

12. The permit while it remains in force shall give to the permittee sole and undisputed possession of the location therein described. In case the applicant for a permit is the owner of the surface rights of the location, no ground rent therefor shall be charged. If the surface of the location is not the property of the Crown, and the permittee desires an easement to the mine, it will be necessary for him to acquire it in acordance with the provisions in that behalf of the Regulations or the disposal of coal lands approved by Orders in Council of the 17th of September, 1889, and the 9th of July, 1892.

13. The permit shall be returned to the Agent on the date specified therein.

14. No permit shall be issued to mine coal on lands which are not situated within territory designated from time to time by the Minister of the Interior as a Coal Mining District for the purposes of these Regulations.

15. If a permittee fails to comply with the requirements of any of the provisions of these Regulations, the permit may be forfeited by the Minister of the Interior.

A. M. BURGESS,

Deputy of the Minister of the Interior.

Department of the Interior, Ottawa.

PART V.

NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND

MANITOВА.

PUBLIC LANDS OTHER THAN MINERAL BELONGING TO THE DOMINION

OF CANADA.

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PART 5.

NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND MANITOBA

DOMINION LANDS.

Dominion lands as herein stated applies exclusively to public lands belonging to the Dominion of Canada in Manitoba and the Territories of Canada. The public lands of the Yukon District in the Northwest Territory are Dominion lands and are governed by the Dominion land law.

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(1) The sections or clauses which have been inserted in this consolidation under the numbers "39a.," 42a., "42b.," "44a.," "14b.," "44c.," "44d.," "49a.," "90a.," "90b.," "90c.," and "91a.," were given such numbers so that they might be inserted next the particular provisions to which they respectively relate. For the same reason section 1 of 57-58 Vic., chap. 26, has been inserted after clause 23 as a proviso.

(2.) Section 5 of 55-56 Vic., chap. 15, inserted in this consolidation as "47," not only repeals clause 47 of chap. 24, R. S. C., but also amends the "Rocky Mountains Park Act," 50-51 Vic., chap. 32; and section 6 of 55-56 Vic., chap. 15, concerning as it does the subject of sections 107 and 108 of the "Northwest Territories Act," chap. 50. R. S. C., is properly a new provision of that act.

(3.) The provisions of 56 Vic., chap. 18., and of 58-59 Vic., chap. 34, sections 1 and 2, authorizing the Minister to grant homestead entries to the persons named therein, respectively, for the school lands set opposite their respective names and the provisions of 58-59 Vic., chap. 34, section 3, authorizing the sale of the school lands therein mentioned to the Coch rane Ranch Company, have not been included in this consolidation.