Newfoundland.
No. 3282
VICTORIA, by the Grace of GOD of the
United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith:
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
KNOW YE, that We, of Our Special Grace, Certain Knowledge, and Mere
Motion, have given and granted and by these presents do, for Us, Our Heirs
and Successors, GIVE and GRANT unto Peter Gregory
of Caplin Bay in Our Island of Newfoundland
Fisherman his Heirs and Assigns All that
piece and parcel of Land situate and being Half a mile North West of Caplin Bay and North of Look out River, abutted and bounded as follows that is to say commencing at the junction of rocky river with look out river the South Western angle of this described piece of land and turning North thirty degrees East eight chains and fifty links more or less: thence South seventy degrees East five chains more or less: thence South thirty degrees West eight chains and fifty links more or less, bounded in the West South and East by ungranted wasteland North seventy degrees West five chains more or less to the place of Commencement.
And being of the dimensions specified in the diagram delineated on
the other side hereof, and containing four acres and thirty perches more or less
with appurtenances, except and reserved nevertheless, out of this present
Grant, to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, all Gold and Silver and all Coals
and other Mines and Minerals, in or under the said piece or parcel of Land.
To Have and to Hold (except as before excepted) unto the said Peter Gregory his Heirs and Assigns for ever
he the said Peter Gregory paying onto Us, as the price and consideration of the
said Land, the Sum of two Dollars ten Cents, at the time of ensealing and delivery
hereof.
Provided always, and this present Grant is upon the further
condition, that the said Lands shall be holden upon, under, and subject to
such regulations as are now in force, or which may at any time hereafter
be made by Law for the improvement and cultivation of Lands within Our said
Island, and subject to all such Regulations as are now in force, or which
may at any time hereafter be made by Law for making Roads, Sewers, Drains,
Canals, Bridges, or other Public Works or Improvements within our said Island,
or any part thereof, and for subjecting any Lands therein situate, or the
owners or occupiers of such Lands, to rates and assessments, or other duties
or services for the purposes aforesaid, or for any of them; And that
the said Peter Gregory his Heirs and
Assigns shall, at all times, peaceably quit and deliver possession to Us,
Our Heirs and Successors, of all such parts of the Lands aforesaid as may
be required for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, upon receiving such
compensation (if any) as by Law now in force, or hereafter to be made, in
that respect, may be provided.
Given under the Great Seal of Our aforesaid Island of Newfoundland,
in St. John's, in Our said Island, this twenty fourth
day of July in the Year of our
Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and seventy one
and in the thirty fifth Year of our Reign.
Witness our trusty and well-beloved STEPHEN JOHN HILL, Esq.,
Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath,
Our Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over Our said
Island and its Dependencies, &c.
BY
HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND,
Sd Jas L Noonan
actg Colonial Secretary.
Received the Day and Year above written, from the within named Grantee,
the Sum of two Dollars and ten cents amount
of the Consideration Money of the Land herein granted.
$2.10
Registered,
Volume, No. 18 Folio 61
[Unsigned]
Surveyor-General.
[Attached survey information.]

Scale 4 chains to an inch
Sd Hy Renouf
H. M. Surveyor-General.
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