17.—If such land be sold at auction and the original applicant be outbid, the original applicant will be repaid, as the cost of such survey, a sum not exceeding one shilling per acre.

If the land so surveyed should fall under the regulations for land to be sold by auction, and the original applicant should not become the purchaser thereof, then the purchaser of the land, in addition to the amount he bid for the same, will be required to pay to the original applicant, as the cost of surveying such land, such amount, not exceeding one shilling per acre, as may be assessed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, after taking such evidence respecting the cost of the survey as he may consider necessary.