10 HISTORY or PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Saint John, Haldiman was detached to superintendthe survey of the Magdalen Islands. In the report sent by Holland to the Board of Trade, from which we have given extracts, was embodied Haldiman’s account of the Magdalen Islands, which'is extremely interesting. “Te regret- our space will not permit its insertion. »

In December, 1763, the Earl of Egmont, then first Lord of the Admiralty, presented an elaborate memorial to the King, praying fora grant of the whole Island of Saint John, to hold the same in fee of the Crown forever, accord- ,ing to a tenure described in the said memorial. On the supposition that the island contained two millions of acres,— for it had not then been surveyed,—he proposed that the whole should be divided into fifty parts of equal extent, to be designated Ifltndreds, as in England, or Baronies, as in Ireland; forty of these to be granted to as many men who should be styled Lords of Hundreds, and each of whom should pay to the Earl, as Lord Paramount, twenty pounds sterling yearly. On the property of the Earl—t0 whom, with his family of nine children, ten hundreds were to be allotted—a strong castle was to be erected, mounted with ten pieces of cannon, each carrying a ball of four pounds, with a circuit round the castle of three miles every way. ‘ The forty Emdreds or Baron'ies were to be divided into twenty manors of two thousand acres each, which manors were to be entitled to a Court Baron, according to the Common Law of England. The Lord of each IIlmd/‘ed was to set. apart five hundred acres for the site of a township, which town- ship was to be divided into one hundred lots, of five acres each, and the happy proprietors of five acres were each to pay a yearly freeJarm rent of four shillings sterling t0 the Lord of the Hundred. Each Hundred was to have a fair four times a year, and a market twice in every week.