e-half | |
| | left on mortgage | |
| | for twelve years, | |
| | at 5 per cent. | |
| |Precious metals | |
| | reserved. | |
| | | |
Colonial Office|January|Order: all land to |August, 1838. |
|20, | be sold by public | |
|1831. | sale; upset price | |
| | 5s., conveyed in | |
| | fee simple at a | |
| | peppercorn rent. | |
| |Precious metals | |
| | reserved, and | |
| | indigenous produce | |
| | for public works. | |
| | | |
Colonial Office|August,|12s. per acre. |1842. |
| 1838. | | |
| | | |
|1842. |L1 per acre. |1845.[184] |
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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 177: _Report on the Disposal of Crown Land_, 1836.]

[Footnote 178: _England and America._]

[Footnote 179: The plan of selling crown lands, and appropriating the
proceeds to emigration, was claimed as his own by Galt, the novelist and
projector. See _Life of John Galt_, vol. ii. p. 135.]

[Footnote 180: _Edinburgh Review_, 1849.]

[Footnote 181: "We are much mistaken, if the letters addressed
to the secretary exceed six, and they are written by the paid
magistracy."--_Launceston Advertiser_, 1832.]

[Footnote 182: Protesters:--Charles Swanston, Charles M'Lachlan, Richard
Willis, John Kerr. October, 1833.]

[Footnote 183: _Backhouse's Narrative._]

[Footnote 184: 1845.--The Act 5th & 6th Victoria, chap. 36,
repealed; as to Van Diemen's Land only: which returned to the status of
1787.]

SECTION XIII.

The increasing population of the Australian colonies led to important
changes in their monetary institutions. Hitherto the stock employed in
banking was supplied by the merchants, or invested by East