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4. Ifthe land is surveyed the pre-emptor must make application to the Agent
_ exactly as in the case of unsurveyed lands, but it will not be necessary to plant posts.

5. Every pre-emption shall be of a rectangular or square shape, and 160 acres
shall measure either 40 chains by 40 chains—880 vards by 880 yards, or 20 cha‘ns
by 80 chains—440 yards by 1,760 yards: 80 acres shall measure 20 chains by 40 chains;
and 40 acres, 20 chains by 20 chains. All lines shall be run true north and south and
true east and west.

6. When a pre-emption is bounded by a lake or river, or by another pre-emption
or by surveyed land, such boundary may be ador ted and used in describing the bound-
aries of the land.

7. Sixty days after recording the pre-emptor must enter into occupation of the
land and proceed with improving same. Occuration means continuous bona fide
personal residence of the pre-emptor or his family, but he and his family may be absent
for any one period not exceeding two months in any year. If the pre-emptor can show
good reason for being absent from his claim for more than two months, the Land Agent
may grant him six months’ leave. A fee of $2.00 is charged for the permit. Absence
without leave for more than two months will be looked upon as an abandonment of all
rights and the record may be cancelled.

8. No person can take or hold more than one pre-emption.

9. Pre-emptions are free.

10. After fulfilling all conditions the pre-emptor shall be entitled to a Crown grant
of the land, on payment of a fee of $10.00.

11. A pre-emption cannot be sold or transferred until after it is Crown-granted.

12. A pre-emption cannot be staked or recorded by an agent.

13. Timber lands (that is, lands which contain milling timber to the average
extent of 8,000 feet per acre west of the Cascades—Coast Range—and 5,000 feet per
acre east of the Cascades—Coast Range—to each 160 acres) are not open to pre-emption.

Pre-emptions

Crown lands, where such a system is practicable, are laid out and surveyed into
quadrilateral townships, containing thirty-six sections of one square mile in each.
Any person, being the head of a family, a widow or self-supporting single woman over
eighteen years of age, or single man over the age of eighteen years, and being a British
subject, or any alien, upon his making a declaration of his intention to become a British
subject, may, for agricultural purposes, record any tract of unoccupied and unreserved
Crown lands (not being an Indian settlement) not exceeding one hundred and sixty
acres in extent.

Making Hay on Carr’s Farm, Smithers, B.C.