Land Titles. 
87 
A£tual cost of poldering land, ioo roods front dam 
at $8 per rood 
Drainage and shipping sluice 
750 roods side line and middle walk 
100 roods pack dam 
Back dam koker 
I 8oo - oo 
1, 500*00 
4,450-00 
8oo - oo 
250*00 
$ 7,800.00 
This amount at 6 0/0 per annum = $468'00 or $r87 per acre, and 
added to original cost of 62 cents per acre gives a total cost of $2*49 
per acre per annum. 
This last, without any obligations for acre money or con- 
struction and maintenance of roads, bridges &c, &c. 
The regulations of 1792 are pretty stiff and indicate 
that before a colonist became a settler he had to have 
either Capital or Credit, and not simply be a loafer to 
take up land and sit down in indolence. 
A universal cry has arisen against the high rate for 
Crown lands, but when the above figures are taken into 
account the cry is untenable, especially as regards 
alluvial flat soils along our sea coasts and rivers under 
tidal influence, seeing that these lands when poldered 
and drained, lease rapidly at from $12 (£2 10) to $24 
(£5) P er acre P er annum. While this holds good of such 
lands, there are thousands of acres in the interior that 
would be dear at an annual tax of one cent per acre ; 
hence a distinction ought to be drawn between the two 
descriptions of land. 
It is evident in the face of the various sub-divisions of 
property which have been allowed by the Govern- 
ment and admitted by the Judges of the Supreme 
Court, that some law or regulations meeting the various 
cases of converting by transport, land held only during 
Her Majesty's pleasure, into freeholds ,must be on record. 
