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NOTICE hereby given that Block of LAND described below has been, by resolution of the Land Board, and with the assent of His Excellency, the Governor, SET APART FOR OCCUPATION, without payment, under the “homestead System,” in accordance with the Provisions of Appendix L of “The Land Act, 1877,’ and subject to the following conditions as to cultivation and residence:’

(1) The area allowed to be selected by each person of the age of eighteen years of upwards shall be fifty acres, and for persons under eighteen years of age twenty acres: Provided that the total quantity to be selected by any one family or number of persons occupying the one household shall not exceed two hundred acres of land.

(2) Within three months after the selection has been approved by the board the selector shall commence to reside on his selection, and shall continue to reside continuously thereon for five years from the de of such approval as aforesaid.

(3) Within eighteen months after such approval the selector shall erect on his selection a permanent dwelling house of wood or other materials, which shall be specified in regulations to be issued in reference to homestead-system selections.

(4) In each year there shall be brought under cultivation one-fifteenth of the area of such selection, if open land, and one-twentyfifth if bush land, so that at the end of the term of five years one-third of the selection of open land, or one-fifth of bush land, shall be under cultivation.