General Insurance Office.

COMMERCIAL UNION

Assurance Company of London, England.

CAPITAL, $12,500,000; Or £2,500,000 Sterling.

Head Office for Canada, Montreal, Morland, Watson & Co. General Agents. GEO. A. COX, Agent at Peterborough.

London & Lancashire Insurance Company.

GEO. A. COX, Agent at Peterborough.

LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMP'Y.

CAPITAL, £2,000,000 STERLING.

Head Office for Western Canada, Toronto, C. W.

GEO. A. COX, Agent for Peterboro.

CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.

Head Office Hamilton, C. W. Capital and Invested Funds $1,700,000. Medical Referee DR. KINCAID.

GEO. A. COX, Agent at Peterboro.

EDINBURGH LIFE ASSURANCE COM'Y,

ESTABLISHED 1823.

Accumulated and Invested Funds over £9,000,000 Stg.

GEO. A. COX, Agent at Peterboro.

Travellers' Life & Accident Insurance Co'y.

OF HARTFORD, CON.

Capital $500.000. Weekly compensation for Personal Injury.
GEO. A. COX, Agent at Peterborough.

MONTREAL OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Tickets issued to and from all parts of Canada and Great Britain. Return Tickets at reduced rates. Full information may be obtained on application to GEO, A. (OX, Agent at Peterboro'

The Public Lands of Canada are sold by local Crown Land Agents in the several Counties and Districts, to whom applications for purchase by intending settlers should be made. With some few exceptions they are sold in Upper Canada for cash at 70 cents an acre, and on time at one dollar an acre; and in Lower Canada at from 20 to 60 cents, one-fifth to be paid at the time of sale, and the remaining four-fifths in four equal annual instalments, with interest at 6 per cent. on the unpaid purchase money.

These sales are made subject to settlement duty, and to current timber licenses for the year. Purchasers of Public Lands not under license, being actual settlers with certain improvements, can obtain license from the respective Crown Land Agents, or Crown Timber Agents, to cut and dispose of the timber growing on the lots purchased by them; the value of the timber so cut and disposed of being applied in payment of the purchase money due the Crown.

CROWN TIMBER REGULATIONS.

The sale and management of timber on the Public Lands are governed by the Statute, Con. Stats. of Canada, 22 Vic. Cap. 23, and by the Rogulations under it, sanctioned by His Excellency the Governor General in Council. Licenses for vacant berths are offered for sale at Public Auction ou such dates as the Commissioner of Crown Lands may fix by Public Notice, at an upset price of four dollars a square mile, or other rate as he may fix, and are awarded to the highest bidder making immediate paySee the Regulations themselves for information as to ground rent, size of berths, renewals, forfeitures, rates of duty on Timber, &c.

ment.

With reference to the Crown Timber Regulations of the 13th June, 1866, notice is hereby given that the following Officers are the Crown Timber Agents duly authorised for the granting of Timber Licenses, and the collecting of Timber Revenue, to whom all applications for such Licenses or Renewals of Licenses within the respective Agencies should be addressed.

A. J. Russell, Ottawa, for the Upper Ottawa Territory.

J. F. Way, Belleville, for the Ontario Territory,

J. R. Nash, Toronto, for the Huron and Superior and Peninsula of Canada West Territories.

C. E. Belle, Montreal, for the Lower Ottawa Territory.
A. Dubord, Three Rivers, for the St. Maurice Territory.
G. J. Nagle, St. Hyacinthe, for the St. Francis Territory.

G. Duberger, Chicoutimi, for the Saguenay Territory.

C. Dawson, Riviere du Loup en Bas, County of Temiscouta, for the Chaudiere and Madawaska Territory.

C. T. Dube, Trois Pistoles, for the Lower St. Lawrence Territory.

J. N. Verge, Carleton, County of Bonaventure, for the Bai des Chaleurs Territory.

A. CAMPBELL, Commissioner.

MINERAL LANDS.

DEPARTMENT OF CROWN LANDS,

Ottawa, 13th July, 1866. REGULATIONS for the sale of Mineral Lands approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council.

INFERIOR METALS.

1. That each regular mining tract in unsurveyed territory shall consist of blocks of two hundred or four hundred acres.

2. That the dimensions of each regular mining tract of four hundred acres be forty chains in front by one hundred chains in depth, and smaller tracts, except on lakes and rivers, in the same proportion. The bearings of the outlines to be North and South, and East and West, astronomically, in the unorganized territories in Upper Canada and parallel to the outlines of the townships elsewhere.

3. That mining tracts bordering upon lakes and rivers shall have their frontage upon such waters, and shall be subject in all cases to the public rights in navigable or floatable waters; and that mining tracts, so situated, shall have a mean depth of one hundred chains back from such river or lake, (exclusive of road allowance of one chain in width, which shall be reserved along the margin of such river or lake,) in conformity with the above mentioned bearings.

4, That mining tracts in unsurveyed territory shall be surveyed by a Provincial Land Surveyor, and connected with some known point in previous surveys, (so that the tract may be laid down on the office maps of the territory) at the cost of the applicants, who shall be required to furnish with their application the surveyor's plan, field notes, and descriptions thereof in accordance with the foregoing regulations, and to the satisfaction of the Department, and pay the price of one dollar per acre into the Department of Crown Lands at the time of making application.

5. That in surveyed townships, lots presenting indications of minerals, be sold on the above conditions, but at not less than one dollar per acre in any township, and at the same price as the other lands in the township when it is more than one dollar per acre.

6. That mining lands in surveyed townships be sold by the local agents for cash, but all lands in unsurveyed territory shall be sold by the Department. 7. The above regulations do not apply to mines of gold and silver.

GOLD AND SILVER.

8. That in selling the lands in the gold mining divisions, the Department is to discriminate as far as practicable between purchasers for actual settlement, bona fide, and those for mining or speculative purposes; selling to the former for the present prices and terms, (subject to an increase to $2 an acre, under the order of 8th August, 1864, when actually worked for gold,) and to the latter for one dollar an acre-cash.

9. That in all Letters Patent for lands, the clause reserving all mines of gold and silver be omitted.

10. All previous regulations inconsistent with the above are cancelled. A. CAMPBELL, Commissioner.