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And finally any person or company was empowered to purchase land not exceeding 640 acres in one block for mining purposes, other than for coal or gold, at the upset price of 20s. per acre.

This sale consisted mostly of country lands, put up in lots of from seventeen to fifty acres, at the upset price of �1 per acre; 1,518 acres were sold at this last land sale.

Lands not sold at auction may afterwards be purchased at the upset price on payment of the whole purchase money.

The buyers press round the table of the official auctioneer; the upset price is named.

If two or more applications are made and there is no bid above the upset price, the first application takes precedence.