24 PAST AND PRESENT or

the expenses of the intended establishment of the Island of St. John, according to the proposals of the Proprietors.

Twenty-six lots, at 6s. per hundred acres,

a moiety of which is ................... £780.00 Twenty-nine lots at «is. per hundred acres. 580.00 Eleven lots at 2s. per hundred acres ...... 110.00

Rent of Town and Pasture Lots uncertain.

On 30th June, [769, Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Franklin, of Nova Scotia, writing from Westminster to John Pownal, Esquire, encloses a return of the provisions and stores at Charlottetown, received from Mr. John Mormu, in whose charge they were, and also a description, signed by Mr. Moreau and Engineer Ness, of Tatamagouche, dated Oc- tober, 1768, of two buildings at Charlotte- town. As these are the earliest buildings at Charlottetown of which we have a descrip— tion, the description may be of interest. They were. “A dwelling-house, fifty-six by twenty- six, one story, with a pitched roof shingled and clap—boarded, and filled in between with stone laid in rough mortar, two stacks of chimneys, with two ovens and six fire-places. two parlors, two kitchens and lodging rooms. a cellar, stoned, under one-half of the house.

“A house intended for a dwelling house, of the same dimensions, clapboarded and shingled, now used as a store, but partitions fixed up for the same number of rooms as the abovehouse, a cellar, stoned, under the whole house and a stone pier at one end of it, for a foundation for a chimney. A wharf head next the shore of Hillsborough river, fifty feet wide, carried out thirty feet, solid with stones and timber. Several of the streets of Charlottetown entirely opened.”

‘On the 7th July, Lord Hillsborough, having learned that Mr. Higgins was about to embark for the Island of St. John, in- formed him of the intention to erect it into a separate government, and appointed him store-keeper.

On the 10th July, the Lords of Trade submitted to His Majesty a draught ap- pointment of Walter Patterson as governor. also a description of a plan and a device for a new seal. On the 13th, Lord Hillsborough wrote the Lords of the Admiralty, reciting the appointment of Walter Patterson to be captain-general and govemor-in-chief over the Island, and that “it is His Majesty’s pleasure that your Lordships should grant him such powers as have been usually granted to the captain general of the rest of His Majesty’s colonies and provinces in America.” He also wrote to the Lord Cham- berlain to give the necessary orders for the new governor to have the allowance of plate and other things which are customary on the like occasions.

On the 14th July, an order-in-council under the great seal was made, passing on the draught of Mr. Patterson’s commission as governor. and also an order approving of the new seal and ordering the chief engraver to prepare a draught of it.

On the 4th August, an order-in-council was passed. approving of the instructions to Mr. Patterson, who. the same day, took the oaths required to be taken by governors of plantations. On the same date an order was made authorizing the Lords of the Admiral- ty to appoint a vice-admiral and oflicers of a court of admiralty for the Island of St. John. *

On 4th Decemberof the same year, the proprietors petitioned the Lords Commis- sioners of the Treasury, setting out, in order to encourage settlers to repair thither, to se- cure their property there, and to recommend and enforce obedience to the laws, it was ab- solutely necessary that there be, as soon as possible, a church, a court house and a jail erected in Charlottetown, which is appointed to be the seat of government, and praying as