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Basis of Settlement With Those who Elected to Leave the Colony. 



The general basis on which the Board proceeded in effecting settlements was 

 as follows: 



1. Houses. As the Government was taking over the property of the settlers 

 leaving the Colony, it did not seem important to determine whether there had been 

 an overcharge made when the houses were built for the settlers. Consequently, 

 the Government grant of $150 was allowed in each case where the settler had a 

 house, and the settler was paid for any additions he had made to the house at 

 his own expense. This avoided the necessity of entering into an intricate calcula- 

 tion which could only, in any case, have been roughly approximate to the actual 

 facts. For this reason, in its basis of settlement, the Board made no reference to 

 the value of the house, or to the house account on the Colony books, settlement being 

 effected under two headings as follows : 



1. Government grant allowed. 



2. Labor and materials allowed. 



2. Buildings other titan Houses. A valuation was agreed upon between the 

 settler and the Board, and this amount was allowe'd. 



3. Land. According to the basis of adjustment, $1,000 was allowed for the 

 ten acres which the Government had agreed to clear for the settlers under the old 

 scheme, and due allowance was ma'de for any clearing which the settlers had done 

 on their own account on the basis of a maximum of. $50 an acre for fully cleared 

 land. Due allowance was also made for ploughing done, at the rate of $10 an 

 acre, and for the cost of seed and seeding done. 



4. Wood, Cut hut not Delivered. Allowance was made the settlers for wood 

 cut but, not delivered on the following basis : 



Sawlogs, approximately $1 00 a log. 



Pulpwood 4 00 a cord. 



Cordwood 2 00 a cord. 



Various other matters had to be adjusted, but the Board refused to attempt 

 to make adjustment in all matters upon which accurate information was not avail- 

 able. This covered certain matters in dispute between the settlers and the Colony 

 Superintendent from 1917 down. In particular, no allowance was made for work 

 alleged to have been done in connection with contracts which had been let to the 

 settlers, but which were later cancelled. However, it may be said that had the 

 Board made allowance for all such work at the valuation placed upon it by the 

 settler, a very moderate sum, not exceeding $1,000, would have been involved. 



From the total due to the settler, according to the above basis, was deducted 

 the amount standing against him in the supply account, store account and horse 

 and cow account on the books of the Colony, and from the net balance due the 

 settler were deducted any advances which had been made to him through Eev. H. 

 J. King — which had, of course, already been paid. "'' 



Basis of Settlement With Those who Elected to Eemain at Kapuskasing. 



After meeting the settlers who intended to remain at Kapuskasing, and ascer- 

 taining from their representations that they were not satisfied with the basis of 

 adjustment proposed by the Commission of Enquiry (namely, a grant of $450, or 

 its equivalent), and as this agreed with the view already reached by the Adjusting 

 Officers, we decided to recommend a new basis for the consideration of the Govern- 

 ment. After going into the matter very thoroughly, and considering in particular 

 what effect an allowance for the balance of the land uncleared, in the ten acres 



