154. The Governor, by Proclamation, may from time to time declare any Crown lands within any mining district, not held under license or lease at the date of such Proclamation, or over which the license or lease has been cancelled, to be open for sale or selection in sections of such size and form and on such date as ho may determine; and any lands so proclaimed may thereafter be sold at a like price and subject to the like terms and conditions, or as near thereto as may be, as Crown lands of the same class not within a mining district. And the Governor may from time to time alter, amend, or revoke any such Proclamation.

Before any such Crown land is offered for sale or selection the Board shall determine whether any watercourse running through or bounding the same will, in their opinion, be thereafter probably required for the purpose of discharging therein tailings, mining debris, or waste water; and if in the opinion of the said Board such watercourse will be so required the same shall be duly notified accordingly, and a right shall be reserved to the Governor in the Crown grant to issue to holders of miners' rights or mining leases licenses to use such watercourse for any such purpose without liability to pay compensation therefor.