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session of the Assembly. One of the conditions on which the land was granted was, that the grantees should settle on each lot a settler for every two hundred acres, and one- third of the land to be settled within four years. Three years had passed ; hardly anything had been done to comply with these terms. Only a very few of the proprietors showed any zeal in doing their duty in this matter. To make gain with as little expense as possible seemed to be the great object of the most of these gentry Governor Fanning succeeded Gm e1 1101 Patterson in 1787 and being appointed thi 0110b the influence of the prelpietors he was more disposed than Governm Patteison to favor their interests He caused a bill to he passed the 111st session of the Assembly held aftei his appointment, nullifying some sales of land made foi non- fulfilment of teims in 1781. The bill, however, did not receive the royal assent. Under the direction of the Provincial Government an investigation \1 as held in 1797, wheieby it was found that twenty— three lots embracintr four hundred and fifty— eight thousand five hundied and eighty acres. had not a singlet family settled on them, and eighteen lots containing three hundred and sixty thice thousand ae1es, had only eighty- foui families. At this time the whole population was estimated at five thousand. These facts led to an agitation f01 the escheat 1 of the lands of those propiietors who had pioVed so utterly indifferent to the tenns of 'settlement The House of Assembly. sensible to the necessity of the more effectual settlement of the Island, petitioned the Home Government, praying that measures be taken to compel the landlords to do their duty, 01 that tl1ei1 lands be granted to actual settlers. The petition was forwarded t)to the Duke of Portland, who commended the resolutions ; but so powerful was the induen use of the pioplietms with the Home Gov- ernment, that they not only succeeded in preventing the petition from leading to any practical lesult but also suc- ceeded in obtaining 6(1802) a 1eduction in the quit rents which by the condition of settlement, they were obliged to pay the government and which now had fallen into arrears amounting to nearly fifty- nine thousand pounds sterling. The inconvenience arising from the Island beaiing the same designation as the capital s of Newfoundland and New

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