REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, FOR THE YEAR 1891. To His Honor the Honorable SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOR: As required by law I submit for the information of your Honor and the Legislative Assembly a Report for the fiscal year ending on the 31st December, 1891, of the management, etc., of the Crown lands of the Province. CLERGY LANDS. The area of these lands sold during the year was 1,139 acres, aggregating in value $1,022.45. The amount collected on account of these and former sales was $4,046.05. (See Appendix No. 3, page 5.) CROWN LANDS. In my last report it was stated that considerable interest had been excited by discoveries of large deposits of nickel, particularly in the vicinity of Sudbury, and that by Order in Council of the 29th November, 1890, the Crown lands in that vicinity had been withdrawn from sale or location until further notice. At the Session of the Legislature held shortly afterwards, the Mining Act was amended in several important directions : the prices of mining lands were increased, working conditions were imposed requiring |