86 TlMEHRI. 
orders of the States General in 1792 regulate most of 
the land in the colony to this day. By the articles of 
capitulation in 1803 it was stipulated that the laws, 
usages &c, of the colony should remain as they were 
before ; and, as the regulations already referred to em- 
braced the only written record of the mode of settling 
the lands of the colony these were engrafted on to the 
present statute book, and remain unrepealed to this 
day. 
Let us see what these regulations mean from a mone- 
tary point of view : — 
RELATIVE COST OF GRANTS UNDER THE THREE SYSTEMS OF SETTLE- 
MENT. 
Grant of i?6g. 
To build a house say ... ... ... ... $ 2,000 00 
Regulations 1792. 
To build a house ... ... $ 2,000 00 
10 Negroes at §400 each ... ... 4,000 00 
Huts for same ... ... ... 600 00 
Construction, Roads and Bridges ... 2,00000 
Towards general survey, 200 guilders 64 00 $ 8,664 00 
Annual charges compulsory — 
Up-keep of roads & bridges, 100 
roods $ 100 00 
Interest on original outlay at 6 0/0 120 00 
Acre money at 3 stivers per acre... 12 00 $ 232 00 
Over 250 acres, 92- cent per acre 
By the Ordinance of 1873 — 
250 acres at $10 per acre .. ... $ 2,500 00 
Cost of survey and travelling expenses 86 48 % 2,586 
Interest at 6 0/0=62 cents per acre per annum. 
