Newfoundland.
No. 1493
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 Joseph Sullivan
of Caplin Bay in the District of Ferryland in Our Island of Newfoundland
Planter his Heirs and Assigns All that piece
and parcel of Land situate and being between Caplin
Bay and Stone Island abutted and bounded as follows that is to say by a line
commencing at a point whence Ferryland Head does bears South three degrees
West thence bounded on the North by ungranted land running by the magnet
in 1858 North eighty five degrees East one chain and fifty links more or
less, thence North sixty four degrees East five chains and fifty four links
thence on the East by ungranted land South thirty eight degrees East one
chain and eleven links thence on the South by ungranted land South sixty
two degrees West two chains thence South forty seven degrees West four
chains and thirty eight links thence on the West by a path and Rossiters
ground North forty eight degrees West three chains and twenty four links
thence North fifty seven degrees East thirty two links more or less to
the place of commencement in Lot No. 1.
Also all that piece or parcel of land situate
and being on the North East of Caplin Bay and between Capeland and Stone
Island, abutted and bounded as follows that is to say by a line commencing
at a point in an angle from which Ferryland Head does bears South three degrees
West, thence bounded on the North and West by waste land running North eighty
seven degrees West ninety links more or less thence South forty five degrees
West three chains and eighty links thence bounded on the South by the
Water of Caplin Bay, South five degrees West one chain and twelve links,
thence North sixty two degrees and thirty minutes East three chains and sixteen
links, thence South sixty two degrees East one chain, thence bounded on the
South and East by ungranted land North fifty one degrees East three chains
and fifty six links, thence North fifty five degrees West two chains and
sixty links, thence South fifty two degrees West one chain and eighteen links
more or less to the place of commencement. Lot No. 2.
And being of the dimensions specified in the diagram delineated on
the other side hereof, and containing in the whole
two acres two roods and twenty five 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 Joseph Sullivan his Heirs and Assigns for ever
he the said Joseph
Sullivan paying onto Us, as the price and consideration of the
said Land, the Sum of --------- Sterling
Money 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 Joseph Sullivan 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,
at St. John's, in Our said Island, this twenty eight?
day of June in the Year of our Lord One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Eight and in the
twenty second Year of our Reign.
Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir ALEXANDER BANNERMAN,
Kt., our Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over Our said
Island and its Dependencies, &c.
BY
HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND,
P J Kent
Day and Year above written, from the within named Grantee, the Sum
of five shillings
amount of the Consideration Money of the Land herein granted.
£ -. 5 .-
Registered,
Volume, No. 8 Folio 34
Sd Hy Renouf
Surveyor-General.
[Attached survey information.]
Sd E. Hanrahan
Sur. General
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Scale one? chain to an inch
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