1. The Attorney General, or other prosecuting officer, may proceed at suit of the Queen against any Crown debtor where the demand does not exceed twenty pounds, in the same manner as in summary actions in the Supreme Court, so far as the same may be applicable, and the costs shall be the same, and be recoverable in all respects as in such actions.

2. The service of process shall be as in other cases in the Supreme Court; and where the debtor shall be out of the Province and have no known place of abode therein, the service shall be effected as on a scire facias in the like case.

3. No scire facias shall be necessary for the establishment of Crown debts under this Chapter. The lands of the debtor shall be bound in cases of specialties from the date thereof, which date shall be set forth in the proceedings and judgment, and in case of simple contract debts from the time of signing the judgment.

4. An execution against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the debtor, shall issue for the recovery of any such debt for which judgment may be given; and the Sheriff shall, for want of goods and chattels, levy on the lands and tenements of the debtor bound as aforesaid, whether in his hands or otherwise.

5. The Governor in Council may appoint fit persons to receive any debts due to the Crown which may be transmitted to them for collection, who shall execute to the Queen bonds, with security to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, for a sum in each bond not exceeding five hundred pounds, for the faithful discharge of their duties.

6. Every Receiver shall with all diligence collect such debts and pay the same to the Receiver General, retaining for his services a reasonable commission (besides costs of proceedings

necessarily paid or incurred by him) not exceeding the rate of ten pounds for every hundred he may collect, to be allowed by the Governor in Council, but not to exceed in any one year one hundred pounds.

7. When any such debt shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds, the Receiver may recover the same in the name of the Queen before any two Justices where the debtor may reside, with costs, under the laws relating to Justices' proceedings in civil suits; but no Crown officer shall be prevented from suing for the same in the ordinary course, if directed by the Governor in Council, or under the summary law as in this Chapter mentioned.

CHAPTER 7.

OF THE ADJUSTMENT OF CERTAIN DEBTS DUE TO, AND OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE CROWN.

1. Bond debtors in certain cases, relievable. 2. Purchasers of Crown Lands during a certain period, how to be dealt with.

1. Any person who may have given bonds for excess of timber cut on Crown Lands with licence, or for any quantity of timber cut without licence, or under the five year leases, where such bonds are due and unpaid, shall be relieved from liability thereon and the same shall be cancelled upon payment of such sum as shall be awarded by the Governor in Council, or without any payment, after full inquiry and hearing.

2. In cases where Crown Lands have been sold between the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and the thirty first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, to purchasers in parcels exceeding five hundred acres, on which any instalments have been paid, and the lands relinquished to the Crown, and where any such purchasers, their assigns, or legal representatives, shall have petitioned on or before the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one for compensation in lands for such instalments, the Governor in Council may direct an inquiry into the claims of such petitioners, and should such claims appear equitable on account of such payments, the

Governor in Council may order a grant of a portion of the land originally purchased, where vacant, and where not vacant of such lands as may be selected by the grantees, to be made to such grantees, such portion to consist of so many acres as the sums so paid shall amount to at the original price agreed on for the same, first deducting from the amount all allowances for timber cut off the land, but no grant shall issue till the costs of survey, to be made under the direction of the Surveyor General, and other expenses, are paid.

1. The Governor in Council may permit purchasers of Crown Lands actually resident thereon, who have improved the same, and are indebted therefor in any principal sum to the extent of twelve pounds, to work upon the public roads as near as may be to their lots, in payment thereof.

2. The Governor in Council may appoint a Commissioner or Commissioners for any County or District therein to superintend the performance and application of the labour.

3. Every actual settler on the lot for which he is indebted, desirous of availing himself of the provisions of this Chapter, shall signify the same before the fifteenth day of June in any year to the Commissioner of the County or District in which he resides, and deposit with him one shilling on each pound of the debt he proposes to work out, and the Commissioner shall record his name and ascertain that he is entitled to the privileges of this Chapter before he allows him to avail himself thereof.

4. Every settler shall perform the work according to the specifications at such time before the first day of October, and at such place conveniently near to his residence, as the Commissioner may direct; but no road shall be made of less width than sixteen feet between the ditches, for which the Commissioner shall allow a sum not exceeding five shillings per rod,

and if a bridge is required to be built, a fair price therefor, according to the rate prescribed herein for a road.

5. The Commissioner shall immediately after the first day of October make a return of his proceedings, certified by him, specifying the name of each settler who has worked, the number of rods of road made, the bridges built, and the rates allowed; and the amount allowed shall be credited on account of the debt; and if the debt be fully paid the grant shall forthwith issue without further charges.

CHAPTER 9.

OF THE SALE OF CROWN LANDS IN CERTAIN CASES.

Section.

1. Portions of Crown Lands how sold, and moneys payable.

Section.

2. Governor in Council may make regulations.

1. The Governor in Council may cause portions of the vacant Crown Lands to be surveyed and laid off into lots not exceeding one hundred acres each, and sell and dispose thereof by private sale for the price of three shillings per acre or upwards, to industrious settlers, payable in money or by labour in opening and making such roads as will promote the improvement and settlement of the Province.

2. The Governor in Council may make rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Chapter.

CHAPTER 10.

OF THE GRANTING OF MILL RESERVES IN CERTAIN CASES.

Section.

1. Governor in Council may grant reserves of land in certain cases; not to prevent disposal, when.

Section.

2. Reserve when to be nugatory.
3. Penalty for cutting or removing logs, &c.
4. Limitation.

1. The Governor in Council may upon written application, according to the form hereinafter prescribed, set apart by private sale portions of Crown Lands as mill reserves for a period not exceeding four years, for the use of saw mills erected and in operation before the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty six, situate upon small tributary streams, from and upon the lands adjacent to the

banks of which, above such mills, they shall solely depend for a supply of saw logs; which reserves shall be in the following proportions, for a mill having one gate, not exceeding five thousand acres, for a mill having two or more gates, driving separate saws, not exceeding nine thousand acres, at an annual rent of not less than ten shillings for every square mile, to be reserved by the Governor and Council, payable annually in advance during the term of the reserve; but nothing herein shall prevent the sale or disposal of any part of such reserves for actual settlement.

2. If such annual rent shall remain unpaid for a period of thirty days after it shall become due, or if any such mill shall at any time cease to operate for the term of one year, such reserve shall determine and become null and void, and the land included therein shall be open to general application for lumbering purposes, unless upon cause shewn to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council they shall otherwise direct.

3. Any logs, timber, or other lumber which may be cut and carried away from any such reserve for any other purpose than being manufactured in the mill for which the reserve shall have been granted, may be seized by the Crown, and upon lawful condemnation shall be forfeited and sold to Her Majesty's use, and the proceeds of the sale paid into the Casual Revenue.

4. This Chapter shall continue in force until the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, and no longer.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To His Excellency, &c. &c. &c.

Humbly sheweth,

The Petition of A. B.

That your petitioner is the owner (or lessee) of a saw mill situate on [describe the stream by its name] being a tributary running into the River

in the Parish of gates, driving

in the County

separate saws;

that your petitioner is entirely dependent upon the lands on the said stream above the mill for a supply of logs for the same, which he cannot obtain from any other source; that the reserve which your petitioner is desirous of obtaining is situate as follows:-[Here describe the land].