. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. I , 124 ON EMIGRATION TO THE L-'. x'*i ! Iiiii' ' ''il';'' ii:!;^ i 11 ! il' â I m. i! i;! I'M iiiiri; p
. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. I , 124 ON EMIGRATION TO THE L-'. x'*i ! Iiiii' ' ''il';'' ii:!;^ i 11 ! il' â I m. i! i;! I'M iiiiri; pnKluce of the ground when Imnifjlit iindpr cultivfttioii. Jielore coming, however, under the ohligations required, it will he ndvisa))lc for him seriously to consider the terms. The granting of Lmd in this colony hy govern- ment was for a long time an ohject of gross ahuse, large lots heing hestowed, from mere favour, u])on individuals who were neither aide nor inclined to turn them to any account; hut Lord Goderich, having formed the laudahle resolution to ])ut an end to this system, went perhaps to the opposite extreme. In his letter of 7th March 1831, he directed that land should, in every case, he dis- posed of hy sale, on the following conditions, namely, that one-fourth of the purchase-money slumld l)e paid im- mediately, and the remaining three-fourths at intervals of half a year. If any failure took ])lace hi these stij)u- lations, the pro])erty was to be forfeited, and resold hy public auction,âan arrangement which was confirmed by instructions received from Mr Spring Rice in August 1834.* In the colony, however, these credits seem from the first to have been held as quite nugatory,âit being utterly impossible to make the land in a year and a half yield three-fourths of the purchase-money. In all the notices which we have seen as issued by authority, the interval of a year is allowed betwt>en each instal- ment, so that the whole may be paid at the end of
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