.... together with all woods, underwoods, timber and timber trees, lakes, ponds, fishings, water, watercourses, profits, commodities, appurtenances, and hereditaments whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining; together also with the privilege of hunting hawking and fowling in and upon the same and mines and minerals. SAVING and RESERVING nevertheless to US Our Heirs and Successors all white pine trees if any such shall be found growing thereon, and also saving and reserving to Us Our Heirs and Successors all mines of Gold Silver, Copper, Lead and Coals.

....They the said several Grantees and their respective Heirs or Assigns YEILDING and PAYING therefore unto Us, our Heirs and Successors or to our Receiver General for the time being, or to his Deputy or Deputies for the time being yearly, that, I to say at the Feast of ST. MICHAEL in every year, at the rate of Two Shillings for every Hundred Acres and so in proportion according to the quantities of Acres hereby granted."

PROVIDED always, and this present Grant is upon condition that the several Grantees and their respective heirs or Assigns shall and do, within three years of the date hereof for every Fifty Acres of plantable land hereby granted, clear and work Three Acres at least in such part thereof as respectively judge most convenient and advantageous; or else to drain and clear Three Acres of swampy or sunken ground, or drain Three Acres of Marsh, if any such be contained therein: AND shall and do, within the time aforesaid, put and keep upon every Fifty Acres thereof accounted barren three teat Cattle and there shall be no part of the said Tract fit for present cultivation, without manuring and improving the same, they within the time aforesaid shall be obliged to erect on some part of their respective lots of land, one good Dwelling-House, to be at least Twenty Feet in length and Sixteen Feet in breadth.

if any part of the said Tract shall be stony or rocky ground and not fir for planting or pasture, shall and do within Three Years, as aforesaid, begin to employ thereon and continue to work for Three Years then next ensuing, in digging any Stony, Quarry, or Mine, one good and able hand for every Fifty Acres, it shall be accounted a sufficient cultivation and improvement.

and in the case of default this present Grant and every part thereof shall, and we do hereby declare the same to be null and void to all intents and purposes: and the Lands hereby granted and every part and parcel thereof, shall in like manner revert to and become vested in Us, our Heirs and Successors; anything herein to the contrary not withstanding.

GIVEN under the Great Seal of Our Province of New Brunswick WITNESS our truly and well beloved Thomas Carleton Esquire our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Province at Fredericton the second day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine and in the thirty nineth, year of Our Reign.
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His Excellency in CouncilJon Odell 

Registered the 17th day of August	By Command of
in the year 1799
Jon Odell
Reg.

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