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Appendix No. 46. 

 Eepokt of the Board of Adjustment, Appointed April 17th, 1920. 



To Effect Settlements with the Colonists at the Returned 

 Soldiers' and Sailors' Colony at Kapuskasing. 



In the Report of the Commission of Enquiry appointed on February 21st, 

 J920, certain recommendations were made for the adjustment of the affairs of the 

 settlers at Kapuskasing. In order to give effect to these recommendations, the 

 Government appointed a Board of Adjustment, consisting of Brigadier-Ceneral 

 J. A. Gunn, Professor A Leitch and A. S. Morgan, on April 17th, 1920. Later 

 Dr. Albert H. Abbott was named as Secretary of this Board. This Board of 

 Adjustment was empowered to effect settlements in the case of each settler, and for 

 its guidance the following basis of adjustment was authorized by the Government. 



Regulations Under Returned Soldiers' and Sailors' Land 

 Settlement Act, 1920. 



1. The adjusting officers shall be the adjusting officers appointed under the 

 Northern and North-Western Ontario Development Act, 1912, 2 Geo. Y, Chap. 2, 

 and such adjusting officers shall be authorized to appoint such officers, employees 

 and servants as they may require, at such wages, remuneration or salary as they may 

 deem expedient for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Returnel 

 Soldiers' and Sailors' Land Settlement Amendments Act, 1920'. 



2. The adjusting officers shall be authorized to hold such hearings and take 

 such evidence on oath or otherwise as they may deem necessary, and to make such 

 awards, settlements and grants as provided in paragraphs 11 (a) and 11 (h) of 

 the said amendments of Act, at such places and at such times as they may deter- 

 mine. That subject to amendments by the adjusting officers as hereinafter pro- 

 vided, the basis upon which any award, settlement or grant shall be made shall 

 be as follows : 



(a) The houses and buildings erected upon the settlers' location shall be 

 valued, and the settlers' building account with the Northern Development Branch 

 shall be adjusted in accordance with such valuation. 



(&) Each settler, who has not ceased to be a member of the Colony, shall be 

 given the privilege of electing either to remain in the Colony or to leave it. 



(c) In the event of a settler electing to leave the Colony, in accordance with 

 the provisions of paragraph (h), the value of the obligation of the Department 

 for the ten-acre clearing ready for the plough, either done or to be done, shall 

 be fixed at $1,000.00, and the settlers' general account with the said Branch shall 

 be credited with that amount. 



(d) In the event of any settler having any clearing ready for the plough 

 beyond the Government ten acres, he shall be credited in addition to the amount 

 mentioned in paragraph (c) at the rate of $50.00 per acre for not more than ten 

 acres, and the value of any additional partial clearance by the settler shall be fixed 

 by the adjusting officers and credited to the settleT. 



(e) Each settler being indebted for animals purchased shall return the same 

 to the Government and be credited with the purchase price, including any cash 

 already paid by him on account thereof. 



