was thus linked economically with the neighbouring settle¬ ments; just as the church, school and taverns in Sou' West drew residents of other settlements to it. The attempts by liberal and Conservative governments in the 1850' s and early 1360's to settle the "land question" by purchasing the land from the proprietors and selling it to tenants resulted in only two major purchases: the and Selkirk estates . (9) Agitation from tenants for further escheat continued..' In 1861 a land Commission, set up to settle the question,recommended that the British Government loan 100, 000 pounds to the P.E.I , government to buy out the remaining proprietors. (10) Proprietors objected to the terms of the settlement, and offered their own. (11) The terms were such that it was clearly more rational for tenants to continue to rent than to buy. The editor of the Examiner, called the proprietors terms "detestible" and suggested that perhaps not one in five-hundred tenants could produce-seventy- five pounds plus back rents. (12) Though the price set by James C. Pope on his estate in lot 27 is unknown it may be suggested by the prices obtained in lot 26 by the proprietor, Mr. A. E. C. Holland ; in testifying before the land Commission he quoted an average price of twenty shillings per acre, but he admitted to receiving as high as 106 pounds for 100 acres. (13) In -April, 1861 a petition from some residents of lot 27 to the House of Assembly asked a prohibition on proprietors seizing and holding property of tenants as payment for over¬ due rents. (14) Mr. Pope denied in the House that any tenant on his estate was being so treated; he pointed out that his 3H-.