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purchase money, into the otiiee of the said t‘oin-I missioner of Public Lands, and, at the same time. sign and execute an assignment or surrender of his lease or agreement to the said Connnissioner of: Public Lands, and his successors in otlice, in tltel form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked} (A), orin such other form as the said Commissioner of Public Lands shall direct.

VIII. The Commissioner of Public Lands shall, upon receipt of the said moiety or equal halt part ofthe said purchase money, and the execution of the said assignment or surrender as aforesaid, pay over to the said proprietor or landlord, by a check,

or order on the Treasury of this Island, the full. amount of the said purchase money so agreed to be: paid, by the said leaseholderor tenant as aforesaid,j when, and so soon as the said proprietor or landlord, shall duly execute a Deed of conveyance ofthe re- version in fee-simple of the said farm, to the said, Commissioner of Public Lands, and his successors in office, upon the trusts, and for the intents and purposes of this Act; and which said deed of con- veyance, shall be in the form or to the effect in the schedule to this Act annexed, marked (B), or in any other form which the said Commissioner may think fit, or the circumstances of each case may render necessary or advisable; and such deed of convey- ance shall be good and valid in law and equity, to vest the legal estate and fee-simple in the said Com- missioner of Public Lands, and 8this successors in office, subject only to the provisions and directions ofthis Act, without any entry made thereon, or possession given, any law, custom or usuage to the contrary thereofin anywise notwithstanding.

IX. Immediately after the execution ofthe. said deed of conveyance to the Commissioner of Public Lands, as aforesaid, he shall execute and deliver to the said leaseholder or tenant a deed ofconveyance of his said farm, in the form or to the effect set forth in the schedule (C), to this Act annexed, altered when necessary to suit the circumstances of any particular case; and on such deed of conveyance there shall be endorsed a memorandum or def‘azance specifying the amount remaining unpaid, and when and how payable, in form as set forth in schedule (1)), to this Act annexed, also varied where neces- sary to meet the circun'istances ofthe case; and the amount so specified as unpaid, with interest after the rate of six pounds per centum per annum, as therein mentioned, shall be, and the satne is hereby declared a specific lien and charge on the land des- cribed in the Deed for which payment is due, superior to, and having priority over every other

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lien or charge on the said land, created by the pur. ehaser or any claiming by, from, through, under or in trust tor him, whether before or after the date ot the deed, rights of (lower or otherwise, and pay- ment thereofshall be eaten ed from time to time, in the same manner as mentioned and prescribed in and by the Act tor the purchase of lands on behalf ofthe Government of Prince Edward Islam], and to regulate the sale and managmnent thereof, and for other purposes therein mentioned, and of all Acts in amendment thereof.

X. The Commissioner of Public Lands, shall

cause duplicate copies of all deeds of conveyance

exocuted by him, under this A ct, with any memor-

andum or defeazance relating to the payment ofthe purchase money endorsed thereon, as aforesaid, to be made and executed; and he shall cause the pur- chaser to execute the same, and by endorsement thereon to declare it. to be a true copy of the original Deed of Conveyance; and every such duplicate copy of any Deed shall be deposited by the Com- missioner of Public Lands in his otlice, and remain

of record therein.

XI. The original Deed of Conveyance, and also- the duplicate copy thereof, executed as aforesaid, and attested by the Commissioner of Public Lands, shall be evidence in all Courts in all actions wherein the title of the lands under this Act, or those claim- ing under them, shall come in question, or wherein any proceedings shall be taken under this Act for the recovery of the purchase moneys due, thereon, with interest, and in all other cases wherein it shall become necessary to give such deeds in evidence.

XII. The Commissioner of Public Lands shall be entitled to receive a fee often shillings from the purchaser of any lands under this Act, for pre- paring the deed of conveyance and the duplicate- thereof.

XIII. The consideration Money, for all sold by

i the Commissioner of Public Lands, under this Act,

shall be paid in the following proportions and instal- ments, that is to say, not less than amoiety or equal half part ofthe purchase money at the time and in the manner hereinbetbre prescribed, and the re- mainder, with interest at the rate ofsix pounds per centum per annum, on the amount, from time to time, remaining unpaid in ten equal annual instal- ments; the said interest._to be paid annually with each instalment : Provided, nevertheless, that any purchaser may, at any time, pay off the whole amount ofthe purchase money, and interest, if any be due, and obtain a full discharge of his Land thereof.