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had then jurisdiction over this Island, directing him to issue grants according to the number drawn by the holders of the ballot papers. .

With the exception of Lot 66, reserved for the King, and Lots forty and fifty-nine, given to a fishing firm in consideration of improvements supposed to have been made, all the townships, as surveyed by Captain Holland were, in this way, disposed of. There was,however, a reservation of such parts of each lot as should be found necessary for public purposes, such as fortifica- tions, and there was a reservation on each Lot of one hundred acres for a church and glebe, and of fifty acres for a school. Moreover, all the coast of the Island, five hundred feet from highwater mark, was reserved for the fishermen to enable them to erect fishing establishments and to cure their fish. It was further stipulated that the proprietor of each estate obtained by ballot should place upon it, within ten years, at least one immigrant for every two hundred acres. All the immigrants were to be Protestants from Europe or America: and the latter were to have lived in British North America for at least two years before the date of the grant. It was also stipulated that if one-third of the land allotted to the proprietor were not settled upon within four years of the date of the grant the whole should be forfeited to the Crown.

After the fortunate winners in the competition for the lands had been in possession for about a year they petitioned the King to place the Island under a separate government,-—apart from that of Nova Scotia. To this end they offered to pay half the quit-rents, on and after the first day of May, 1769, instead of 1772, and asked that the payment of the remaining half should be postponed for twenty years. The quit-rents were to form a fund from which the expenditures of the government, the salaries of officials, etc., were to be paid. The British Government con-

sented to these proposals. Isle St. Jean was given a separate government; and the first governor was sent to it in the person

of Walter Patterson. Governor Patterson arrived in Charlottetown on the 50th

of August, 1770. He, was accompanied by several officials. The salaries of all, amounting to about £14:70, were to be paid out of

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