Land Entitlement Order

Orders appointing Alexander McDonnell to supervise distribution of and to military settlers.

Transcript of the Orders

GENERAL ORDERS

MILITARY SECRETARY’S OFFICE

KINGSTON, 17^th July, 1815

WITH reference to the General Order of the 6^th December 1814, communicating the gracious intentions of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, of granting to disbanded Soldiers, locations of Waste Lands and Crown Referves in the Canadas – His Excellency Major General Sir Frederick Robinson, Commanding in the Province of Upper Canada, directs that the following regulations be publifhed, for the information and guidance of fuch claimants, who may be desirous of fettling in the faid Province.

EACH Soldier is to be allowed One Hundred Acres of Land, and is to receive his location from the Superintendent, upon his being fatisfied that the claimant is of the defcription, and of the character, to become an useful fettler. He is to be placed on his land; the boundaries of which, and the conditions of his grant, are to be expressed in the ticket of location.  It is to be clearly underftood, that the lands held under thefe grants, cannot be alienated or dispofed of until the grantee shall have refided upon and cultivated reafonable proportion of the fame, for the fpace of three years.

OFFICERS will be entitled to a ticket of location in the firft inftance, for two hundred acres of land, upon condition that they caufe a reafonable proportion of the fame to be cultivated, and do not dispofe of it until three years after the date of the ticket.

OFFICERS and Men are to receive provifions for themfelves and families, in fuch proportions and fhall be hereafter fpecified, for one year.

IMPLEMENTS of husbandry and tools, will alfo be fupplied to them, in fufficient quantities, and other comforts according to the necefsities of the individuals.

WITH a view to carry into full effect the intentions of his Majefty’s Government on this head, his Excellency has been pleafed to appoint

Alexander McDonnell, Efq. To be Superintendent.

HIS Excellency has alfo been pleafed to appoint Lieut. ANGUS MCDONNELL, of the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles, with the pay of 2/6 army fterling per day, in addition to the full pay of his commifsion in the army, to be ftationed at the depot at Cornwall, to receive and take charge of the fettlers.  This appointment to take place from the 25^th ultimo, and to continue until further orders.

LIEUT. McDonnell will proceed immediately to Cornwall, and place himfelf under the orders of the fuperintendent.

ALL applications on the part of claimants for lands in Upper Canada, are to be made until further notice, to the officer in charge of the depot at Cornwall.

PASSAGES to the depot will be ordered, on application at the office of the Quarter Mafter General for fuch of thefe men (and their families) as may have received their difcharges in the Upper Province.

BY HIS EXCELLENCY’S COMMAND,

WILLIAM GIBSONE,

ACTING MILITARY SECRETARY.