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IV. / I "^ H E fa^ety and propriety of Admiting the Petitioner to become an inhahitaut I of this Province being well alcertaincid to the fatisfaftion ot the Board, they •^ Ihall adminifler to every fuch perfon the oaths of fidelity and allegiance directed by law. After which the Board (hall give every Cuch Petitioner a certificate to the Sur- veyor General, or any perlon authorized to AA as an Agent or Deputy-Surveyor lor the DiftriA within the truft of that Board, expreffing the ground of the Petitioner's adniiircn. And fuch Agent or Deputy Purveyor (hajl within two days, after the prelcntment af the certificate, aflign the Petitioner a fingle lot of about two hundred acres, dclcribiii^j the fame with due certainty and accurracy under his fignature. But the faitl renititate {hall neveithelels have no efTeft, if the Petitioner Ihall not enter upon liie 'ocnt'oii and begin the improvement and cultivation thereoi'within one year Irom the date of fuch adignment, or if the Petitioner Ihall have had landsaffigned to him before that time, in any other part of the Province. VII. The refpeftive Boards, fliall on petitions from Loyalifts already fettled in tl.ic Uppfi DiflriAs for further allotuicntsof land under theinftru^tions to the Dipiity Surveyor- general of the 2d. of June, 17O7, or under prior or other orders for aflignuig porii; ns to their families, examine into the grounds of luch requefis and claims, and beinj.; well fatisfied of thejufiice thereof, they (hall grant certificates for fuch jurihti quantities of land, as the faid in(iru6tions and orders may warrant, to tlieafting S;.v- veyors of their diftrifts rel'peftively, to be by them made eflet^tual in the manner I t- forementioncd ; but to avoid neverthelsfs, if, prior to the palling the grant in io!';;, it (hall appear to the Government that I'uch additional locations have been cbtaii rd by fraud. — And that of thefe, the Boards tranimit to the Office of the Governor's Secretary, and to each other, like reports and lifts as herein before, as to other loca- tions, dire6led. 'I. And to prevent individuals from monopolizing fuch fpots as contain mines, minenls, foflils, and conveniences for nulls and other lingular advantages of a common 2;;d public nature, to the prejudice of the general intcrelt of theitttlers; the Suiv;y(;r General and his Agents, or Deputy Surveyors in different Diflri As, fhail confine I htni- leivc«i ■ ♦he locations to be made by them upon certificates of the relpcfiive Beards, to fv :ids only as are fit for the common purpofes of huflandry, and they ;. .:11 refer . : i other fpots aforementioned, together with all fuch as may be fit and iifelul for ports and harbours, or works of defence, or fuch as contain valuable timber fer (hip-building orother purpofes, conveniently litualed for water-carriage, in the hands of the Crown. And they (hall without delay give full nnd particulrr information to the Govfrnor or Commander in Chief for the time being, of all fuch l|..ols as are ler'-m before di- refted to be referved to the Crown, that oider may be taken relpetiing the fame. And the more effeftually to prevent abufes, and to put individuals on their gunrJ in this refpe6t, any certificate of location given contrary to the true intent and intoning of this regulation is hereby declared to be null and void, and a fpecial order of the Governor and Council made necellary to pledge the faith ot Government fprgnnting •i any fuch fpots as a^e direacd to be relerved. \ JJFAMILY lands ANrj ADDITIONAL BOUN lY^^ N^' CERTIFICATE of the Board appointed by His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor for the Diftria of in the Province of Upper Canada, under the Rules and Regulations for the Condud of the Land Office Department, dated Council- Chamber, Quebec, iyth. February, 1789. / I MiE Bearer Invinf; on the tl.iy of preferred to this Bmril a petition iddrclFcd to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor ui Council iora grant ot Acres ol land in the Townilii;) ol in the Diftrift of We have examined into his charafler and pretentions, and find that he has received Acre:; as a , ■ J and that he 13 (ettled on, and has improved the fame, and that he is entitled to a further alTignnieiU of Acres article oi the Rules and Regulations aforementioned. in conformity to the i''.*v:n1:h td Given at the Board at this day of one thoufand feven hundred and JlH'tng Surveyor Genernl, I Certificate of the Ading Surveyor. Affign to the Bearer the Diftria of in the Townfhip of containing Chains Uie Lot in Acres, which Lot he is hereby authorized to occupy and improve. And having improvrd the lame, he lliall receive a grant thereof to him and hi heirs or devifces in due form, on fuch terms and conditions as it lliali ple.ile hisMijcfiy to ordain. And all perlbns aredelired to take notice, that this aCngnment, aut ail others of a fimihr nature, are NOT TRANSFERAnLE by purcb^e, doiui:un, or oiherwife, on