The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Nelson Crown Lands Leasing Act Amendment Act 1871.”

The fifth clause of the said recited Act shall be construed and read as if the words “not suitable for agricultural purposes” had been omitted therefrom.

All sections of land to be leased shall except in the case of natural boundaries be rectilinear and no such sections shall be taken so as in the opinion of the Waste Lands Board to render less available for sale or lease or injuriously to affect in value any other portion of the Waste Lands.

Any applicant for a lease of Crown land may in his application request the Waste Lands Board to assess the land at its value to sell in accordance with such Regulations as may at the time be in force for the sale of Crown lands in the Province and in the event of such application for a lease being acceded to shall be entitled to a lease thereof for a term of fourteen years at an annual rental of ten pounds per centum on such assessed value for sale payable in advance and on the due and punctual payment of such rent for the term of fourteen years and upon the due performance and observance of the covenants contained or implied in such lease he shall he entitled to a Crown grant of such land: Provided always that no greater quantity of land than two hundred acres shall be so leased to any one person and no land shall he so leased which has not been previously offered to sale by public auction and no greater area than ten thousand acres shall be so leased in any one year.

The holder of any lease already issued under the said recited Act may at any time within one year from the passing hereof have his land re-assessed by the Waste Lands· Board at its value to sell and exchange such lease for a lease under the last preceding clause subject to the provisions therein contained.