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&quot; Information can be obtained respecting the lands to be disposed of in 

 the several districts, by applying to the following gentlemen, agents for the 

 commissioners of crown lands, viz. : 



&quot; In the Bathurst district, Mr John M Naughton, D.S. Bytown. 



&quot; In the eastern district, James Pringle, Esquire, Cornwall. 



&quot; In the Newcastle district, Alexander MDonell, Esquire, Peter 

 borough. 



&quot; In the London district, Roswell Mount, Esquire, Delaware. 



&quot; In the western district, Henry John Jones, Esquire, Chatham. 



&quot; The commissioner for crown lands, acting also as agent for the sale of 

 clergy reserves, requests it to be noticed, that such clergy reserves as have 

 not been hitherto occupied by authority, or leased by the government, will 

 be disposed of, by public auction only, either at the periodical sales of 

 crown lands or at occasional sales, to be duly advertised ; and that the 

 terms of payment for clergy reserves W 7 ill continue to be as follows : Ten 

 per cent to be paid at the time of sale, and the remainder in nine annual 

 instalments of ten per cent each, with interest on each instalment, to be 

 paid with the instalment. 



&quot; Such clergy reserves as have been leased, or occupied by the authority 

 of the government, must be applied for by letter to the Commissioner of 

 Crown Lands, and when disposed of, will be sold by private sale on the 

 same terms of payment as those disposed of by public auction. 



&quot; All applications from emigrants, or respecting emigration, not imme 

 diately connected with the sale of public lands, are to be addressed to AN 

 THONY B. HAWKE, Esquire, at York, he being specially appointed by the 

 government to act in that department. 



&quot; PETER ROBINSON. 



&quot; Commissioner of Crown Lands Office, 

 &quot; York, 27th May, 1833.&quot; 



By an advertisement dated Taronto, (late York,) 10th 

 April, 1834, the upset price of lands in the Newcastle district 

 is fixed at 10s., and the land surrendered by the Six Nations at 

 15s. per acre. The same advertisement announces clergy 

 reserves, on condition of actual settlement, ten per cent of 

 the price paid at the time of sale, and the remainder at nine 

 annual instalments, with interest of six per cent on each 

 instalment. 



East of Bear Creek 17s. 6d. and the remainder 10s. The 

 township of Chatham, 15s.; Madoc, 7s. 6d. ; London, 15s. 

 per acre, Halifax currency. 



The mode of disposing of crown lands has been subject of 

 frequent complaint by newly arrived emigrants, and the whole 

 system merits censure. I met individuals who had travelled 

 more than one hundred miles from York to examine lands in 



