15. Any such agent refusing or neglecting to report to the Minister, within eight days thereafter, his reasons for such refusal to sell, locate, or put under license, as the case may be, any such land, shall be liable therefor to the applicant in the sum of $5 for each acre of land which such applicant offered and was entitled to locate or purchase or to have put under license to him, to be recovered by action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
R. S. 1964, c. 102, s. 15.