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the provincial government has purchased the interests of the landlords with the object of making the farmers freeholders. The majority of the tenants have availed themselves of this immense advantage, and at the present time only about 28,000 acres remain unsold of the 843,981 acquired by the government; and of this quantity but 16,000 acres represent land held by parties who have not yet purchased. The re- maining 12,000 acres may be regarded as the available uncultivated and vacant government lands. These consist in the main of barren lands of poor quality, the best having of course been taken up in the first instance, and the price averages from twenty-five cents to one dollar per acre. Parties purchasing are required to pay thirty per cent. down and the balance in two years. Thus did little Prince Edward Island do away with its landlords, and throttle forever the béte flair: of landlordism—a question that is only now being grappled with in its sister green isle across the sea.

The Arms of Prince Edward Island—On the 14th day of July, 1769, an order was made by His Majesty King George III. in council, directing the preparation of a seal for Prince Edward Island, then styled the “Island of Saint john in America,” such seal to bear a device of which the following is a description taken from the order-in-council:

“On the one side a representation of a. large spreading oak with a shrub under it and this legend or motto underneath: ‘Parva sub ingenti,’ and this inscription around the circumference, ‘Sigillum Insula: Sancti Johannis in America,’ and on the reverse, His Majesty's Arms, Crown, Garter, Supporters, and Motto, with this inscription round the circumference, ‘Georgius Tertius Dei gratia, magnate Britan-

niae, Francia: et Hibernia: Rex, Fidei Defensor, Brunsvici et Lunzeburgi Dux, Sacri Romani Imperii Archi-Thesaurarius et Elector.”

This seal, modified by order of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in council of the 4th February, 1839, as regards the inscription, to suit the altered personality of the sovereign and the Change

in the Island’s name, has ever since continued to be the great seal of the province.