20 HISTORY OF PRINCE ED‘VARD ISLAND.

to stipulation, in 1772, should become payable from the first of May, 1769, and that the payment of the remaining half should be deferred for the period of twenty years. This proposition was accepted by the gorermnent, and accordingly Captain \Valter Patterson, one of the island proprietors, was appointed governor. He, accompanied by other officers, arrived on the island in 1770, at which period, notwith- standing the conditions of settlement attached to the land grantstthere were only one hundred and fifty families and five proprietors residing on it. It was calculated by the government that the quitrents would amount in the aggre- gate to fourteen hundred and seventy pounds sterling. The governor was instructed to pay out of that fund the follow- ing annual salaries, in Sterling currency: to himself, as governor, five hundred pounds, to the secretary and registrar, one hundred and fifty pounds, to the chief justice, two hundred pounds, to the attorney general, one hundred pounds, to the clerk of the crown and coroner, eighty pounds, to the provost marshal, fifty pounds, and to a minister of the Church of England, one hundred pounds. This arrangement was to remain in force not. more than ten years, and in the event of the quitrents falling short, from any cause, of the required sum, the salaries were to be diminished in proportion.

The governor \ 'as required to perform other duties, which were grossly unjust, and in some cases beyond human capability. He was, for example, enjoined by the twenty- sixth and twenty-seventh articles of his instructions to permit “liberty of conscience to all persons (except Roman catholics), so they be contented with a quiet. and peaceable enjoyment of the same, not giving offence and scandal to the government,” and he was also “ to take especial care that God Almighty should be devoutly and duly served through-