The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES. 3238 the surrender select a block of land adjoining each of its posts within any part of British North America not comprised in Canada and British Columbia in conformity except as regards the Red River Territory with 4 list made out by the Company and comniunicated to the Canadian Ministers being the list in the Schedule to the Deed of Surrender. The actual survey is to be proceeded with, with all convenient speed.” 3. “The size of each block is not to exceed 10 acres round Upper Fort Garry, 300 acres round Lower Fort Garry ; in the rest of the Red River Territory a number of acres to be settled at once between the Governor in Council and the Company but so that the aggregate extent of the blocks is not to exceed 50,000 acres.” 4. “So far as the configuration of the country admits, the blocks shall front the river or road by which means of access are provided and shall be approximately in the shape of parel- lelograms of which the frontage shall not be more than half the depth.” 5. «The Company may for fifty years after the surrender, claim in any township or district, within the Fertile belt, in which land is set out for settlement, grants of land not exceeding one twentieth part of the land so set out. The blocks so granted to be determined by lot and the Company to pay a rateable share of the survey expenses not exceeding eight cents Canadian an acre. The Company may defer the exercise of their right of claiming the proportion of each township for not more than ten years after it is set out: but their claim must be limited to an allotment from the lands remaining unsold at the time they declare their intention to make it.” 6. “Tor the purposes of the last article, the Fertile belt is to be bounded as follows—On the South by the United States boundary : on the West by the Rocky Mountains: on the North by the northern branch of the Saskatchewan: on the East by Take Winnipeg, the Lake of the woods and the waters connecting them.” 7. «If any township shall be formed abutting on the north bank of the northern branch of the Saskatchewan River the Company may take their one twentieth of any such township which for the purpose of this article shall not extend more than 21—2

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