Of tills the King has granted at Several times about 100,000 Acres to sundry Persons who have Cultivated and improved the . same, to the great Increase of the Inhabitants, and Advantage of the Province, and pay Yearly to the Crown about .£125

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Proclamation Money Quitrent; and 50,000 Acres remain still in tlie Crown, to be granted to such persons as are willing to settle and Cultivate the same; which when Granted will yield X62 Sterling Yearly to the Crown. 11,683 Acres of this Tract are Set out by the Commissioners to be sold for defraying Expences of Partition.

In Justification of the Observations which I have made, and of otliers which may be made on this exorbitant Claim of the Proprietors of the Patent of Minissiuk as it is usualy call'd, I shall mention some Maxims of Law, which they on another Occassion, in their Memorial presented to the General Assembly of this Province the 10*^ Day of February 1756, proposed as Rules for Judging of the Kings Grants.

1st The King's Grant shall not enure to any other intent, than is expressed in the Grant ^ tliat is, it shall not enure to any Implied Intent^ tho' it may to Several Intents, if they be all expressed.

2diy The words of a Grant (even in the Case of a Subject, and the rather in that of the Crown) shall be Construed according to a reasonable and easy Sense ; and not Strained to things unlikely and unusual.