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six months from date. On the 30th April 1792, 
Governor BACKER required all grantees to call for their 
" cards of measurement" within three months, or to 
forfeit the same to the West India Company on the 
expiration of that period.* 
ACRE MONEY. — In the minutes of the Court of Policy 
of Essequibo, at a Meeting held at Fort Zeelandia on 
the 4th May, 1766, will be found a Letter of the 2nd 
December 1 765, from their High Mightinesses with regard 
to Acre Money, and a Resolution of the Court thereupon. 
In the minutes of the Combined Court of Policy, held at 
the same place, on the 19th of June 1775, the introduc- 
tion of Acre Money into both rivers formed a subjecl of 
deliberation. The postponement of the discussion upon 
the question of the introduction of Acre Money is noted 
in the minutes of the Court of Policy on the 12th end 
18th of January 1778, (pp. 2, 16). In the Court of 
Policy, on the 16th January 1779, there was a proposal 
" to publish" the introduction of Acre Money. 
WHITES.— By a Resolution of the Council of Ten, 
dated 30th of September 1784, it was proposed that 
Dutch peasants should be induced to settle in the 
Colonies, there to breed cattle, &c. The Immigration of 
* The following is an Extract from a Report made to Governor Sir 
Henry Light, on the 18th of January 1839. by William Hadfield, 
Crown Surveyor :— " The Dutch Government, on the first settlement of 
the Colony, gave grants of 2000 acres, and some even greater, but it 
was afterwards deemed advisable to limit them to 1000 acres — subse- 
quently to 500. and lastly to 250. with a provision by which the grantee 
was entitled to an additional 250 acres, on shewing that he had in 
cultivation £rds the extent of his former grant. Since that they have 
been by the instructions of her Majesty's Government, of date 5th 
March 1831, limited to 100 acres." 
