PLATEAU AND VALLEY LANDS

Exemptions

The farmand buildings,
when registered, cannot be
taken for debt incurred
after registration; and it
is free from seizure up to
a value not greater than
$500.00. Cattle ‘farmed
on shares’’ are also pro-
tected by an Exemption
Act. Pre-emptions are ex-
empt from taxation for
two years from date of
record, and there is an
exemption of $500.00 for
four years after record.

Homesteads

Free land can be ob-
tained in British Colum-
bia, but the conditions are
different from those apply-
ing to homesteads in the
Prairie Provinces, see Sec.
9, page 15.

The fact of a person
having a homestead in
another Province, or on
Dominion Government
lands in this Province, is
no bar to  pre-empting
Crown lands in British
Columbia.

How to Secure a
Pre-emption
Any person desiring

to pre-empt unsurveyed
The Reason Why Live Stock Does So Well in Central B. C. Crown lands must observe

the following rules:
1. Place a post four or more inches square and four or more feet high above the
ground—a tree stump squared and of proper height will do—at one angle or corner of
the claim and mark upon it his name and the corner or angle represented, thus:

“A. B.’s land, N.E. corner post” (meaning northeast corner, or as the case
may De) and shall post a written or printed notice on the post in the followi ing form:

I, A. B., intend to apply for a pre-emption record of acres of land,
bounded as follows: Commencing at this post; thence north chains:
thence east chains; thence south chains; thence west chains

(or, as the case may be).
“Name (in full).
“Date.”

2. After staking the land, the applicant must make an application in writing
to the Government Land Agent of the district in which the land lies, giving a full
description of the land, and a sketch plan of it; this description and plan to be in dupli-

cate. The fee for recording i is $2.00.

3. He shall also make a declaration, in duplicate, before a Justice of the Peace,
Notary Public or Commissioner, in Form 2 of the Land Act, and deposit same
with his application. In the declaration he must declare that the land staked by
him is unoccupied and unreserved Crown land, and not in an Indian settlement;
that the application is made in his own behalf and for his own use for settlement
and occupation, for agricultural purposes, and that he is duly qualified to take "up
and record the land.