6. In every grant of land made previously to the 24th of July 1880, by simple location ticket, on the usual conditions of settlement for agricultural purposes, but for which letters patent or similar titles were not issued, or were not issued until after the above-mentioned date, the gold and silver only shall belong to the Crown, if it was established before the 1st of January 1921 that on the 24th of July 1880 the person who acquired such lands or his assigns had fulfilled all the conditions of the location ticket and that the letters patent or other titles to the same effect might have then been issued.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 34, s. 6.