274 GRANTS TO THE U. E. LOYALISTS. 



Farming utensils, building materials, and two years' 

 provisions were supplied to them ; and, besides the land 

 given to themselves, allotments of 200 acres were 

 granted to each of their children on attaining the age of 

 twenty-one years. This has thrown into the hands of 

 persons of small capital, and little agricultural knowledge 

 or pecuniary means, larger tracts of land than they have 

 been able beneficially to cultivate. Had those grants 

 been made in farms of 100, or even 50 acres each, it 

 would, in the judgment of the President, have been 

 better for the province, and for the actual condition of 

 its practical husbandry. 



This, we should say at once, might probably have 

 been the case. But the argument appears to have a 

 better foundation than could be gathered by a stranger 

 as the words fell from the lips of the speaker, when we 

 consider the extent of land granted to the U. E. 

 Loyalists, and how little has, as yet, been done to a large 

 proportion of that which was assigned to their children. 



In the authorised Statistical Report of the Canadian 

 Board, (Montreal, 1849,) these lands are described as 

 consisting of : — 



, Acres. 



Located, . . . 150,800 



Unlocated, . . . 321,950 



Other lands, . . 2,734,239 



Total described, . 3,206,987 



I do not know exactly what distinction is intended 

 between the second and third quantities of these lands in 

 the above enumeration ; but if it be the case that, of 

 the 3i millions of acres granted, only 150 thousand are 

 located — by which I understand actually under culti- 

 vation — it does seem as if the original benevolent 

 intentions of the Home Government had been greatly 

 interfered with, and rendered abortive. 



A large proportion of the later grants, I believe, 



