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Las diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 Co lb feellencg ik (§Qkxm General h. The Mtmorial of the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the County of Simeoe, in Council atumMcd, RssPECTruLLT Shewsth : — That your Memorialists have on a former occasion addressed your Excellency on the subject of the ntanner of dis|x)sing of the Crown Lauds or (he Province, and expressed an opinion that \\ hud been injurious to the progress and proiiiierily of the country, and the advisability of adopting a system of free grants in the future. Since the Memorial referred to vas forwarded to your Excellency, your Memorialists have had reason to believe, not culy that the views that they then expressed on this subject were sound ones.but that they are held by a large majority of the people of Upper Canada. Your Memorialists, however, feel that in placing a limit on the value of the lands to lie given as free grunts, they acted without due consideration, and are desirous, as the subject is such an ini|iortant one, lu the interests of the Province, to bring it again before your Excellency, and respectfully urge its consi- deration on the (Government, wit'iout rei&rence to any limit in the making of such froe grants in res|iect to the value of the land, or otherwise. Your Memorialists feet bcund to again state to your Excellency that they feel satisfied that a free grant system, with proper restrictions as to actual ketilement, is the true |iolicy by which the Government of u new country should be guided in the di8|iosal ol its Agricultural Lands, inasmuch as rapid settlement tends more than anything else lo increase th'' wealth and material prosperity of the community, and by increasing the number of contributors to the public exchequer, more than makes up in a peciiiiinry way for the incieased direct outlay which would in that case have to be made in connection with the Crown Lands Department ; and Ihey would therefore again suggest and press upon the attention o! your Excel- lency the cdvisabilily that the Crown Lands in Upper Canada, which ore yet at the disfiosal of the Crown and of the ordinary description suitable for farming purposes, shall in future be offered free to actual settlers, or at u nominal price, to cover the e.tpenses of survey, and accom[ianied by the most stringent regulations as io settlement ; and further thatall lands not occujiied or held by actual settlers, the pur- chase money of which is in arrears to the Crown, shall be declared forfeited so soon as the same can be legally done, and at once (ffered for settlement m an encouragement to immigration, and to obtain for settlement a large quantity of the wild lands of the Province now held by speculators to the great in- jury of the Agricultural interests of the Province. Your Memorialists would respectfully beg to call the attention of your Excellency in Council to the suggestions made in their former Memorial, relative to the condition of the settlers in backward town- ships, such as Morrison and Muskoka, and others recently opened for settlement ; and would add that, especially in the case of the t'.>wiiships named, intersecting lines of road should lie surveyed and opened, these townships huving progressed rapidly and satisfactorily under the free grant system, and only re- quiring a continuance and extension of the same policy to become an important and thriving seulcment. Yonr Memorialists trust that your Excellency and the responsible advisers of Her Majesty will be f leased to give this subject the consideration which its importance deserves, believing that the adoption of a free grant policy in respect to the disposing of the farming lands of the Province, still held by the Crown, would greatly advance the best interests of the Province. And your Memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray, ice. (Signed) THOS. R. FERGUSON, (ls.) Warden, Co. Simeoe. Coi;ncil Hall, BAnaiE, Nov. 29lh, 1865. 11. T. BANTING, Co. Clk., Co. SiMcoB. ll LS Uf.