246 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
to pay to his Majesty King George the Third his heirs and successors 
or to any person lawfully authorized to receive the same a free yearly 
quit rent of one shilling sterling for every fifty acres so granted and so 
in proportion for a greater or lesser quantity of land granted, the first 
payment to arise from and after the expiration of ten years from the 
date hereof and so to continue payable yearly hereafter forever, and 
each of the said grantees binds and obliges himself his heirs and assigns 
within three years from the date hereof to clear and work three acres 
for every fifty acres in the tract hereby granted, and in that part of the 
tract which he or they shall judge most convenient and advantageous, 
or clear and drain three acres of sunken or swampy grounds or drain 
three acres of marsh if any such be within the bounds of the grant, or 
put and keep on their land within three years after the date hereof 
three neat cattle or six hogs to be continued on the land until three 
acres for every fifty be fully cleared and improved, but if no part of 
the said tract be fit for present cultivation without manuring and 
improving the same, then the said grantees their heirs or assigns shall 
be obliged within three years to erect on some part of the land one 
dwelling house to contain twenty feet in length and sixteen in breadth, 
and put thereon three neat cattle or six hogs for every fifty acres, or 
if the said grantees, their heirs or assigns, shall within three years after 
the passing of the grant begin to employ thereon and so continue to 
work for three years next ensuing in digging any stone quarry or coal 
or other mine one good and able hand for every hundred acres of such 
tract, it shall be accounted a sufficient cultivation and improvement, 
and every three acres which shall be cleared and worked as aforesaid, 
and every three acres which shall be cleared and drained as aforesaid, 
shall be counted a sufficient seating, planting, cultivation, and improve- 
ment to save forever from forfeiture fifty acres of land in any part 
of the tract contained within this patent, and each of the said grantees 
shall be at liberty to withdraw his stock or to forbear working in any 
quarry or mine in proportion to such cultivation and improvement 
as shall be made upon the plantable lands or upon the swampy sunken 
grounds and marshes which are included in this patent and the said 
patentees, their heirs or assigns, having seated, planted, cultivated, 
or improved the said land or any parts of it according to the directions 
and conditions above mentioned may make part of such seating, 
planting, cultivation, and improvements in the General Court or in 
the Court of the County District, or Precinct where such lands shall 
lie and have such proof certified to the Register’s Office and entered 
with the record of this patent, a copy of which shall be admitted on 
any tract to prove the seating and planting of such lands. In witness 
whereof I have signed these Presents and caused the seal of the Province 
