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veniently may be, taking in a necessary part of the sea coast. That the 

 quantities of land granted will be in proportion to the abilities of the plan- 

 ter to settle, cultivate and enclose the same. That one hundred acres of 

 wild wood land will be allowed to every person being master or mistress or 

 a family, for himself or herself, and fifty acres for every white or blaclc man, 

 woman or child, of which such person's family shall consist at the actual 

 time of making the grant, subject to the payment of a quit-rent of one shilling 

 sterling per annum, for every fifty acres ; such quit-rent to commence at 

 the expiration of ten years from the date of each grant, and to be paid tot- 

 His Majesty's use to his Receiver G-eneral, at Halifax, or to his Deputy on 

 the spot. 



" That the grantees will be obliged by their said grants to plant, cultivate, 

 improve or enclose, one-third part of their lands within the space of ten 

 years, another third part within the space of twenty years, and the remain- 

 ing third part within the space of ithirty years, from the date of their grants. 

 That no one person can possess more than one thousand acres by grant, on 

 his or their own name. 



" That every grantee, upon giving proof that he or she has fulfilled the 

 terms and conditions of his or her grant, shall be entitled to another grant, 

 in the proportion and upon (the conditions above mentioned. That the Gov- 

 ernment of Nova Scotia is constituted like those of the neighbouring col- 

 onies ; the Legislature consisting of a Governor, Council and House of 

 Assembly, and every township, as soon as it shall consist of fifty families, 

 will be entitled to send two representatives to the General Assembly. The 

 Courts of Justice are also constituted in like manner with those of the Massa- 

 chusetts, Connecticut and the other northern colonies. That as to the article 

 of religion, full liberty of conscience, both of His Majesty's Royal instruc- 

 tions and a late act of the General Assembly of this Province, is secured to 

 persons of all persuasions. Papists excepted, as may more fully appear by 

 the following abstract of the «aid act, viz. : — ^Protestants dissenting from 

 the Church of England, whether they be Calvinists, Lutherans, Quakers, or 

 under wfhat denoimination soever, sihalll have free liberty of conscience, and 

 may erect and build meeting houses, for public worship, and may choose and 

 elect ministers for the carrying on divine service and administration of the 

 sacrament, according to their several opinions, and all contracts made be- 

 tween their ministers and congregations, for the support of their ministry, 

 ar.e hereby declared valid, and shall have their full force and effect accord- 

 ing to the tenor and conditions thereof, and all such Dissenters shall be ex- 

 cused from any rajtes or taxes, to be made or levied for the support of the 

 Established Church of Eng-land. 



" That no taxes have hitherto been laid upon Hig Majesty's subjects 

 within "this Province, nor are there any fees of office taken upon issuing the 

 grants 'of land. 



" That I am not authorized to offer any bounty of provisions : and I do 

 hereby declare that I am ready ito lay out the lands and make grants imme- 

 diately, under tÏÏe conditions above described, and to receive and transmit 

 to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, in order that the 

 same may be laid before His Majesty for his approbation, such further pro- 

 posals as may be offered by any body of people, for settling an entire town- 

 ship, under other conditions that they may conceive more advantageous to 

 the undertakers. 



" TEat forts are established in the neighbourhood of the lands proposed 

 to be settled, and are garrisoned by His Majesty's itroops, with a view of 

 giving all manner of aid and protection to the settlers, if hereafter there 

 should be need.— Given in the Council Chamber at Halifax, this Uth day of 

 January, 1759, In the 32d year of His Majesty's reign. 



(Signed) " CHARLES LAWRENCE." 



