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No grants appear to have been issued in 1805 and 1809. The 

 grants issued in other years down to and including the grant of March-' 

 30th, 1810, to Wm. White et al., situated at Eastern Margaree in the 

 county of Inverness, refer to "conditions as in all (or other) grants.'^ 

 (See Book C.) 



From this date onwards there were many Crown leases. No grants 

 however, appear to have been issued until February 6th, 1818, when one 

 was recorded of land at Kinloch, between Broad Cove and Mabou, in the 

 county of Inverness, to Alexander McDonald (Book D, page 316). The 

 reservations in this grant were "all mines of gold, silver, copper, lead 

 and coals, gypsum, slate and other quarries." 



Book E is taken up with the record of Crown land leases, tickets of 

 occupation, location, etc. 



This reservation continued in grants found in Book F down to and 

 including a grant, dated June 11th, 1820, to Christie McNeil. (Book 

 F, page 190.) 



The re-annexation of Cape Breton to Nova Scotia now took place, 

 but the Cape Breton records show the issue of leases and grants applied 

 for and passed on prior to the date of the proclamation, extinguishing 

 the Government of Cape Breton. (October 9th, 1820.) 



The final issue of grants took place on December 28th, 1820. The 

 first being to Clement Hubert, of land at Arichat Harbor, Isle Madame, 

 in which the reservations were only gold, silver, copper, lead and coals. 

 (Book F, page 198.) 



Questions having arisen as to the titles of the various tenancies at 

 will, leases, etc., an Act was passed by the Legislature of Nova Scotia,, 

 Chapter 11, Acts of 1851, confirming all the laws, statutes, ordinances, 

 customs and usages in force in Cape Breton, between 1784 and 1820. 



Since this date the terms and conditions of Crown land grants in 

 Cape Breton are the same as in Nova Scotia proper. 



In 1854 to make the land titles of Cape Breton as issued prior to 

 1820, agree with those of Nova Scotia proper, chapter 43, enacted for 

 the settlement of titles to land, that all persons in Cape Breton in un- 

 disputed possession of lands, who had applied for a grant, should receive 

 one free of further charge. 



This legislation of course did not interfere with the regular grants 

 already issued or with the reservations therein, but allowed all holding 

 leases, tickets of survey or location, etc., to get a deed from the Crown, 

 and a formal registry thereof. The Act conferred no mineral privileges 

 on those holding land under such titles, as they originally conferred no 

 mineral rights. Consequently in 1826 the Duke of York's grant took 

 all the minerals under the Crown leases, tickets of location, etc. 



