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Title: A Proclamation, To such as are desirous to Settle on
   the Lands of the Crown in the Province of Upper Canada
Author: Simcoe, John Graves (1752-1806)
Date of first publication: 1792
Edition used as base for this ebook:
   Quebec: [unnamed printer], 1792
Date first posted: 4 October 2009
Date last updated: 4 October 2009
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_A PROCLAMATION,_

_To such as are desirous to Settle on the Lands of the Crown in the
Province of Upper Canada;_
_________________________________

BY HIS EXCELLENCY

JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE, ESQUIRE;

_Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the said Province,
and Colonel Commander of His Majesty's Forces_, &c. &c. &c.

[Illustration: coat of arms]
Be it known to all concerned, that His Majesty hath by His Royal
Commission and Instructions to the Governor, and in his absence to the
Lieutenant Governor or Person administering the Government for the
time being of the said Province of Upper Canada, given Authority and
Command to grant the Lands of the Crown in the same by Patent under
the Great Seal thereof; and it being expedient to publish and declare
the Royal Intention respecting such grants and Patents, I do
accordingly hereby make known the Terms of Grant and Settlement to be:

FIRST.--That the Crown Lands to be granted be Parcel of a Township: If
an Inland Township, of Ten Miles square, and if a Township on
navigable Waters, of Nine Miles in Front and twelve Miles in Depth, to
be run out and marked by His Majesty's Surveyor or Deputy Surveyor
General, or under his Sanction and Authority.

SECOND.--That only such Part of the Township be granted as shall
remain, after a Reservation of one Seventh part thereof, for the
support of a Protestant Clergy, and one other Seventh part thereof,
for the future disposition of the Crown.

THIRD.--That no Farm Lot shall be granted to any one Person which
shall contain more than Two Hundred Acres; yet the Governor,
Lieutenant Governor or Person administering the Government, is allowed
and permitted to grant to any Person or Persons such further Quantity
of land as they may desire, not exceeding One Thousand Acres over and
above what may have been before granted to them.

FOURTH.--That every Petitioner for Lands make it appear, that he or
she is in a Condition to cultivate and improve the same, and shall
besides taking the usual Oaths, subscribe a Declaration, (before
proper persons to be for that purpose appointed) of the Tenor of the
Words following, viz. "I A. B. do promise and declare that I will
maintain and defend "to the utmost of my power the Authority of the
King in his Parliament as the Supreme "Legislature of this Province."

FIFTH.--That applications for Grants be made by Petition to the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Person administering the Government
for the time being, and where it is advisable to grant the prayer
thereof a Warrant shall issue to the proper Officer for a survey
thereof, returnable within Six Months with a Plot annexed, and be
followed with a Patent granting the same, if desired, in Free and
Common Soccage, upon the terms and Conditions in the Royal
Instructions expressed, and herein after suggested.

SIXTH.--That all Grants reserve to the Crown all Coals, commonly
called Sea Coals, and Mines of Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin, Iron, and
Lead; and each patent contain a Clause for the Reservation of Timber
for the Royal Navy of the Tenor following:

"And provided also, that no Part of the Tract or Parcel of Land hereby
granted to "the said ________ and his Heirs, be within any Reservation
heretofore made and marked "for Us, Our Heirs and Successors by Our
Surveyor General of Woods, or his lawful "Deputy; in which Case, this
Our Grant for such Part of the Land hereby given and "granted to the
said ________ and his Heirs for ever as aforesaid, and which shall
upon a "survey thereof being made, be found within any such
Reservation, shall be null and "void, anything herein contained to the
contrary notwithstanding."

SEVENTH.--That the Two Sevenths reserved for the Crown's future
Disposition, and the Support of a Protestant Clergy, be not severed
Tracts each of One Seventh part of the Township, but such Lots or
Farms therein, as in the Surveyor General's Return of the Survey of
the Township, shall be described as set apart for the purposes,
between the other Farms of which the said Township shall consist, to
the Intent that the Lands to be reserved may be nearly of the like
value with an equal quantity of the other parts to be granted out as
afore-mentioned.

EIGHTH.--That the respective Patentees are to take the Estates granted
to them severally free of Quit Rent and of any other Expences, than
such Fees as are or may be allowed to be demanded and received by the
different Officers concerned in passing the Patent and recording the
same, to be stated in a Table authorized and established by the
Government and publickly fixed up in the several Offices of the Clerk
of the Council, of the Surveyor General, and of the Secretary of the
Province.

NINTH.--That every Patent be entered upon Record within Six Months
from the Date thereof, in the Secretary's or Register's Offices, and a
Docket thereof in the Auditor's Office.

TENTH.--Whenever it shall be thought adviseable to grant any given
quantity to one Person of One Thousand Acres or under, and the same
cannot be found by Reason of the said Reservations and prior Grants
within the Township in the petition expressed, the same or what shall
be requisite to make up to such person the Quantity advised, shall be
located to him, in some other Township upon a new Petition for that
purpose to be preferred.

And of the said several Regulations, all persons concerned are to take
Notice, and govern themselves accordingly.

  Given under my Hand and Seal in the City of Quebec, the Seventh Day of
      February, in the Thirty-second Year of His Majesty's Reign, and in
      the Year of Our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.

                           JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE.

By His EXCELLENCY'S Command.
    THOs. TALBOT, Acting Secretary.




[End of _A Proclamation, To such as are desirous to Settle on
the Lands of the Crown in the Province of Upper Canada_
by John Graves Simcoe]
