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acres out of their purchaso of 2,481,413 acres from Govern- 

 ntcnt. In the Huron tract, the average price was lOs. 8(i. per 

 acre, and in other quarters 123, 4d, ; in 1838 their sales in 

 consequence of the insurrection were but 13.299 acres, the 

 price of which, in the Crown Reserves and the Guelph 

 territory, (some of the best in the Province) varied from 

 15s. Od. to 10s. lid., and in the Huron tract from 13s. 7d. 

 to 10s. 3d. The British American Land Company held 

 their Annual Meeting in London, on the 28th March, 1844, 

 and their Report stated, that duritjgf the precedinff year 

 they h.n\ sold 34,859i^ acres in the Eastern District for 

 £17,031 19<. 4(1., heino-about lOs. peracre. The Company 

 still had about (353.500 acres in the Eastern District. 



Py an Act of the Local Legislature passed in September, 

 1841, it was provided that the waste lands of the Crown 

 should be sold at a price to be fixed from time to time, by 

 the Governor in Council. The prices fixed for the present 

 are Upper C inada Gs. 7d. sterlino^ per acre ; Lower Canada 

 in Ottawa County, and South of the St. Lawrence, to the 

 West of the Kennebec road 4s. lid. and elsewhere in that 

 division 3s. 34d. 



The Canada Company grant leases of their land in the 

 Huron District to persons not havininj ready cash, for 12 

 years, at small annual rents, commencing one year from the 

 datiJ of the lease, at the expiration of which lease, and the 

 punctual payment of the yearly rents, the settler will receive 

 a deed for the freehold of the land he occupies, without 

 further charge. The rent for 100 acres at the end of tha 

 first year is £2 currency, and increases yearly, until at the 

 end of the 12th year £16 10s. is paid, making the total paid 

 in the 12 years £110 5s. Od. 



Mc. Culloch in his Geographical Dictionary, 1841, gives 

 the following statement. 



Acres cutlivateJ. Acres ocf npied but 



uncultivated. 



Upper Canada 1,308,307 4.394,109 



Lower Canada 2,0(30.213 4,981,793 



3.374,520 9,375,962 



Murray makes the following statement, 



Lower (3anaJa Upper Canada 

 in 1831. ill 1835. 



Families employed in Agriculture 50,824 

 Ditto Trade 2.503 



Acres of Land under Cultivation 2,065,913 1,308,3074 

 Occupied but unimproved 3,981,713 4,394,169 



A small tax, not exceeding Id. in the pound is levied 

 both on cultivated and waste lauds, the former being valued 

 at 20s. the acre, and the latter at 4s. Mc Culloch says that 



