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Petition of Colored
people at Preston
  ——  
For grants of their
Lots, and for larger &
better lots for those
who are disposed to
remove . —

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Petition of Colored
People at Preston
—
For grants of their Lots
and for larger and better
lots for those who are
disposed to remove
—
Recd 23d - Feb 1841

Referred to Surveyor
General
By His Excellency's Command
RD George
In Council 11 March 1841
see minutes

A plan and description of the several lots which had been laid out to Blacks at Preston passed this office on the 4th Mar. 1836, and in the preceding year of the lots laid out for the Blacks at Hammonds Plains. Why the Grants were not perfected I know not. There can be no doubt that in this severe climate at least 100 acres would be required for each family in order to afford a proper supply of fuel, but at the same time these people have wasted their fuel by burning the wood into charcoal. I am not aware of their being any authority for passing Free Grants to them.

Department of Crown Lands           John Spry Morris

4th March 1840           Comr. Crown Lands