Newfoundland.

No. 3039       

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 William Rossiter of Caplin Bay - District of Ferryland in Our Island of Newfoundland Fisherman his Heirs and Assigns All that piece and parcel of Land situate and being  about one hundred and ten yards West of the River Head of Caplin Bay abutted and bounded as follows that is to say commencing at a point forming the Southern angle of land claimed by John Powers and running bye the same North fifty one degrees West five chains and fifty two links more or less; thence bye the same South Seventy one degrees West two chains and eight links more or less, thence North fifty degrees West one chain and seventy two links more or less, thence North fifty seven degrees West two chains and eighty links more or less to Ungranted land, thence bye the same South ten degrees East four chains and forty links more or less to land claimed by Robert Boland, thence bye the same South fifty four degrees East two chains and eighty links more or less ; thence South sixty four degrees East two chains and forty eight links more of less; thence North Seven degrees East two chains and sixteen links more or less - thence North three degrees East eighty links more or less, thence North Seventy five degrees East, one chain and forty links more or less, and thence North forty five degrees East one chain 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 Three and a half acres 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 William Rossiter his Heirs and Assigns for ever he the said William Rossiter paying onto Us, as the price and consideration of the said Land, the Sum of One Dollar thirty 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 William Rossiter 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 Twelfth day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy and in the thirty third 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,

Sgd J Bemister
  Colonial Secretary.

Received the Day and Year above written, from the within named Grantee, the Sum of One dollar and thirty cents amount of the Consideration Money of the Land herein granted.

$1. 30

            Registered, Volume, No. 17 Folio 16
                  Sgd H^y Renouf
                  Surveyor-General.

[Attached survey information.]

Scale 4 chains to an inch

Sgd John H. Warren
H. M. Surveyor General
December 14, 1869