thought most
imagine, generally as the tenant thought
conducive to his interests._
Before
any
active
measure I
could be
adopted for the settlement of the various difficulties in the
way of planning the Town, I made a careful survey of the then existing state
of the Queen's Road, high and low water marks, and the several walls and houses built. I then
studied the circumstances
affecting
the various
lots, defined the several boundaries, and calculated
the
areas
In
accordingly fixing
the rent to be paid upon
Lots, they had to be divided into two classes,
viz.
Elliott's sales and Johnston's grants, which were
as
dissimilar in their terms as possible; the former were
sold at Public Auction, the
purchaser offering a price without reference to
area,
and the Lot, such as it
was, was
his
property from the intended Road to high water mark, and it did not signify whether the calculation of the
area was
right or wrong.
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The grants by Mr. Johnston were made at a certain fixed rate, viz. £1 for 129 super. feet
and thus for these it was
necessary
to take great
care in determining
the true
area;
I could not
rely upon the return of these Lots, it was manifestly incorrect, and, in fact, it was ... for the fourth regulation, after stating that an acknowledgment of the grant
admitted to be so,
would be given, concludes, and this acknowledgment will be exchanged for
the precise formal title,
as soon as
a true measurement and registration shall be "completed." I therefore took every possible
care
in making the line of high water mark as
near as
possible to what it must have been at the time of the grant; in most
cases
I was
guided by untouched unbuilt on ground, and
road
could not be mistaken, but the road
in many cases is not now
where it
was
intended
to be at the time of the grant, and thus, with the original inaccurate measurements, I found