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/+ tme 6 yet takon up was comparatively refure !a Secondly, in the old townships, there wore facilities, in the shape of roads, &o , for get: ting to market, which psople could not ex--| -- pest to enjoy for a number of years in a new | 4 country ; and there was not, therefore, any 1 special inducement required to gos people to | _ go Into those old townships. Another reason q was, that there were now large sums due the | _ Gove:nment with rugect to lands sold in | | the old townships, Up to the 3O:h Sopt. last, from an approzimate statement pre-- pared in the department, it appeared there was still aboutseven milltons 0¢ dollars due in 0'0.0 old townships--more preoisely, $6,848,-- Mr, MoKELLAR--COsn you state what proportion of that is interest ? Hon. Mr. RICHARDS said he could not. On the Crown Lauds there was due $2,560,-- 000 ; on the C1 Lands, $2,219,000 ; on the School Ind::%'l,flo.ooo ; on the Gram-- | 8 mar Sohoo!l Lands, $329,000 ;. altogether | ' about $6,484,000. It was very importact, |® for the best interests of the Province, that | 1 this money should, as far as possible, be col-- |@ leoted--an mnn:. t!:: lnten&t of which ||~ would very far pay the exponses of the l(;amml of the Provicce, The Qovernment had folt thast, it thoy attempted |~ to give free grants in the old townships, they | _ would at once bs mot with demands from | $ tho former settlers in those townzships, for : remission of the amounts they owed on their ; lands for arrears. Ho was not propared to take the ground that this large amouat of | money could never be collected. He wans &\ « qwoepared to admit, however, that thero we4" , a considerable sum which rnaver woulid be : collected, as there wers parktioular oases in which to enforce nayment would be a hard» } ship. A part of these moneys was dus in to lands which were claimsd to be } * subjeots of special trusts. In the proceeds of tha Olergy Reservo lands, the Municipali-- ; tes of U Oasada were alone interested. | Mlfi;': the Common Sohool lands, it wam ea that they were subjects of a > epecial trust, in which Lower Canada was ; interested alike with ourselves ; ut whother that.view oculd be sustained, ho was not pro-- | pared to #ay, it was a polat which 1 would have _ to be sottled by the|| arbitrators. The Government hopsd to be { next session to subm't what they || & concelve the best course to be tiken ' regard to the collection of there out: standing amounts. He would not be dl'mo'd to make ::an with respect to B which realize the fuil price ; but, | | wherea too high prices had been paid, and the | m were unable to pay tho arrears in || in those cases a sufficlent Geduction | j should be made to induce them to setile up. |, He proposed to make a allzht change on the |\ shnnology of the second resolutrion. In | fl"l' is up, the fact was overlooked, that wome of the grants were to be on the colonis: 1 wtlon roads ; he would, therefore, after the | word "towaships," near the begianing of the | resolution, add the words *'surveyed or | Mu*a:ld--l:h in The ctame of prroans | A class of persons | who shoull get ?nnh, they | had _ followsd the _ United _ States |' Homestead Aot of 1862 He might .