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Secondly, the land to be duly measured and 

 the l<^a^e graiU^-H, 



Tbirdiy, flie rent to l>e one dollar per acre for the 

 {iv^t ivrw o( iideeii yt^ar.^; for the fecund term of 

 fiiteea yearf^, ni.t Im exceed (hree doUarH; and for 

 the third term of ft l teen years^-^nut to be above 

 itn doiirtrs per ace. 



Fo urthly, ill the event of rhe teni^nt reffisiug 

 to culuvuie hh ground ai or under au\ of the fore- 

 going ratei*, he is to be ejected therefrom, aod the 

 grouiid, with ail building.^ there^jn, rtsumed by 

 Gyverumeiit wiihout any reuuineration. 



I stiall shortly remark upon the pernicious tea- 

 dency of tlie^ie reguiatiuiis. 



Few of the c'ass of peasantry, who are able 

 and willing to cultivate those vast ti acts of forest 

 lands, are po>^essed of sufficient property to ena- 

 ble them to undertake the clearing, a^^ it will em- 

 ploy a roan and his family from three to five years, 

 before the land will yield any return. It is there- 

 fore requisite for the speculator to be in posses- 

 sion of funds, independent of this land, whereby 

 he may be enabled to maintain his family until 

 the latter becomes productive. This, of itself, 

 is sufficient, iu nine cases out of ten, to prevent a 

 Malay attempting the undertaking; but, when 

 in addition to this heavy outlay, he is called up- 

 on to pay an annual tax of one dollar per acre for 

 land, at that moment a dead weight upon his re^ 

 f sources, it would be matter of surprize if we found 



the tbresits disappearing under the axe. 



But Jet us suppose that a man has ventured on 

 the experiment, and that, at the expiration of thir- 



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