CROWN LANDS SOLD FROM 1828 TO 1833, UPPER CANADA

[Transcription note: The data presented below was originally in the

conventional tabular row / column format.]

Table

Row 1, Column Headings

Column 1: Year.

Column 2: Number of acres sold.

Column 3: Average price per acre.

Column 4: Amount of purchase money received within the first year.

Column 5: Whole amount of purchase money.

Row 2

Column 1: 1829

Column 2: 3,893 acres

Column 3: 15 shillings, 1-3/4 pence

Column 4: 760 pounds, 6 shillings, 10 pence

Column 5: 2,940 pounds, 17 shillings, 3 pence

Row 3

Column 1: 1830

Column 2: 6,135 acres

Column 3: 13 shillings, 8-1/2 pence

Column 4: 1,350 pounds, 16 shillings, 6 pence

Column 5: 4,209 pounds, 3 shillings, 0 pence

Row 4

Column 1: 1831

Column 2: 4,357 acres

Column 3: 11 shillings, 3-1/2 pence

Column 4: 1,626 pounds, 15 shillings, 0 pence

Column 5: 2,458 pounds, 1 shillings, 8 pence

Row 5

Column 1: 1832

Column 2: 10,323 acres

Column 3: 9 shillings, 1-1/2 pence

Column 4: 2,503 pounds, 3 shillings, 5 pence

Column 5: 4,711 pounds, 2 shillings, 9 pence

Row 6

Column 1: 1833

Column 2: 26,376 acres

Column 3: 8 shillings, 9-1/4 pence

Column 4: 5,660 pounds, 8 shillings, 3 pence

Column 5: 11,578 pounds, 19 shillings, 3 pence

Row 7

Column 1: Totals

Column 2: 51,074 acres

Column 3: -

Column 4: -

Column 5: 25,898 pounds, 3 shillings, 11 pence

Interest is now exacted on the instalments paid.

Three years is the number within which the whole amount of the purchase

money is to be paid. The sales of town lots, water lots, and park lots,

in Upper Canada, are not included in this table, on account of the

disproportionate effect which the comparatively large sums paid for

these small lots would have on the average price per acre. They are

given, therefore, separately, in the following table:-

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