202 WANT OF NEW ROADS. 



vator. Capitalists, therefore, unless they embark in 

 trade or banking, or peddle in money-lending upon the 

 mortgages of distressed farmers, must seek some other 

 country in which to settle, if they are dissatisfied with 

 their position at home. 



I have stated that every new immigrant who arrives, 

 if he bring health and a willingness to work, is a gain to 

 the colony 5 1 have also incidentally alluded to the fact 

 as when speaking of the Harvey Settlement, and of the 

 country on the river Tobique that there are tracts of 

 good available land scattered through the province, in 

 various counties, which cannot be settled, because of the 

 want of the necessary roads. 



To both these facts the provincial authorities are fully 

 alive 5 but as sums so large have already been and are 

 still annually expended in making and maintaining the 

 thirteen hundred miles of high-roads, besides bye-roads 

 innumerable, and countless bridges, it has been found 

 impossible to appropriate any further proportion of the 

 yearly revenue to this purpose. It has, therefore, been 

 determined as a means at once of inviting settlers, and 

 of opening up new lands by roads, to dispose of these 

 lands, on the condition that the grantees shall make the 

 roads leading to or through them. 



The section chosen for settlement is divided into 

 eighty acre lots. These are sold at the rate of 4s. 

 currency per acre, (3s. 3d. sterling.) Of this, Is. an 

 acre, or 4 in all, are paid down by the settler to defray 

 the expense of survey, drawing up the grant, &c. ; and 

 the remaining 3s., or 12, by work done on the roads, 

 at a fixed price per rood. It is stated that a body 

 of emigrants arriving in June, would be able to open 

 the road, cut down four acres on each of their lots 

 for crops on the following spring, and build a log-house 

 before the winter set in. Of course they must have 

 means to maintain themselves and families during the 



