The Great Land Sale of 1854

Notice is hereby given, that the School Lands in the Counties of Bruce, Grey and Huron, are now open for sale to actual settlers on the following terms, vis: The price to be 10 shillings per acre, payable in Ten Annual Instalments, with interest; the first instalment to be paid upon receiving authority to enter upon the land. Actual occupation to be immediate and continuous; the land to be cleared at the rate of five acres annually for every hundred acres during the first five years; a dwelling-house, at least 18 by 26, to be erected; the timber to be reserved until the land has been paid for in full and patented, and to be subjected to any general timber duty thereafter; a License of occupation, not assignable without permission to be granted; the sale and license of occupation to become null and void in case of neglect or violation of any of the conditions; the settler to be entitled to obtain a patent upon complying with all the conditions; not more than two hundred acres to be sold to any one person on these terms.

First published in The Canada Gazette, July 31st,1852.

All papers in the province to copy for one month.

Quebec, 17th August, 1854

Notice is hereby given that the undermentioned lands (set apart for school purposes under Statute 12, Vic. Chapter 200) in the County of Bruce, U.C., will be open for sale to actual settlers, upon application to Alex. McNab, Esquire, at Southampton, in the Township of Saugeen, on and after the twenty-seventh of next month, on the following terms, viz.: The price to be Ten shillings per acre, payable in Ten equal annual instalments, with interest: the first instalment to be paid upon receiving authority to enter upon the land. Actual occupation to be immediate and continuous; the land to be cleared at the rate of five acres annually for every hundred acres during the first five years; a dwelling-house, at least 18 by 26, to be erected; the timber to be reserved until the land has been paid for in full and patented, and to be subjected to any general timber duty thereafter; a License of occupation, not assignable without permission to be granted; the sale and license of occupation to become null and void in case of neglect or violation of any of the conditions: the settler to be entitled to obtain a Patent upon complying with all the conditions, not more than two hundred acres to be sold to any one person on these terms.

(What here follows regarding description of lands is condensed from notice as printed)

Township of Bruce - Lake Range, Lots 11-70 and rest of Township surveyed in Concessions.

Township of Kinloss - 1 Concession, Lots 1 to 80.

Also: The undermentioned Crown Lands. Subject to the same conditions of Actuall settlement and terms of payment, at 7s. 6d. per acre.

Township of Carrick - All farm lots therein.

Township of Culross - All farm lots therein.

Township of Greenock - Lots on second concession and all North of same.

Township of Kinloss - Lots on 2nd Concession to 12th Concession inclusive, and on Range 3 North and Range 3 South of the Durham Road.