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of making the agreement. A discount will be allowed for ready 

 money payment. 



6. On payment of the money, a grant will be made in fee 

 simple to the purchaser at the expense of the Crown, with the 

 usual reservations of &quot; mines and minerals, and white pine timber.&quot; 



7. The largest quantity of land which will be sold to any indi 

 vidual is 10,000 acres, and when put up to sale, it will be offered 

 in such tracts, not less than 100 acres, as may be directed. Per 

 sons wishing more extensive purchases, must apply in writing, 

 through the Lieutenant Governor in Council to his Majesty s 

 principal Secretary of State for the colonies, with full explanation 

 of their objects and means. 



8. Lands may also be obtained without purchase, but upon 

 different conditions. 



9. Persons desirous to acquire lands without purchasing, will 

 make their application to government, in writing, through the 

 Surveyor General s office, in a prescribed form. Copies of which 

 wih 1 be furnished by the Surveyor-General upon payment of 2s. 6d. 



10. The largest grant that will be made without purchase, is 

 1200 acres, the smallest 100 acres. 



11. No grant will be made to any person without purchase, ^ 

 unless the government is satisfied that the grantee has both the 

 power and the intention of expending in the cultivation of the 

 lands, capital equal to half the estimated value, or in case the grant 

 does not exceed 200 acres, that he intends to reside upon and 

 improve the same. 



12. A quit rent of 51. per cent, per annum, upon the estimated 

 value, will be fixed on the land granted without purchase. 



13. The quit rent will be redeemable within the first twenty- 

 five years next following the grant, on payment of a sum equal * 

 to twenty times the annual amount of it. 



14. Until the expiration of the first seven years next succeed- 

 ing each grant without purchase, no quit rent will become due 

 upon the lands comprised in it. 



15. Every grantee without purchase, must, at the expiration of the 

 before-mentioned term of seven years, prove to the satisfaction of 

 the Lieutenant Governor in Council, that he has expended in the 

 cultivation and improvement of his land, a capital equal to half 

 its value, as that value was estimated at the time of his grant, or 

 in case the grant shall not exceed 200 acres, that he has during 

 that time resided on and improved his land. On failure of such 

 proof, his claim to the land shall be forfeited, and the same may . 

 be granted to another applicant. It is to be understood, however, 

 that if at any time within that period the condition of expendi 

 ture and cultivation shall have been complied with, the patent 

 may immediately issue. 



16. No additional grant of land will be made to any person 

 who has not proved, as last mentioned, the necessary expenditure 

 of capital on the lands already granted to him. 



