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1828 June 1
H of Commons Canada Committee 1828 May 15 & 17 Ellice's Evidence

Acts of 1822 &
1825 passed at Ellis'
suggestion are
& abandoned

Sacrificing interest
income by deferring to
Grant Leases on the
present inconvenient
tenure

500£ a year obtained for 20,000 Acres
led to 228 Tenants

Prevented from letting
by Government Fines
exacted – P.2

Cause of the difficulty
local fears of responsibility
impossibility
of getting satisfactory
instructions from England

Ellis's unsuccessful
attempt to change the
tenure

Principal prevention
of change of tenure &
fresh cultivation the
seigneural fines on
alienation &c

Captalists send money
home rather than invest
it in land in
Canada P3

Nothing prevents of
prosperity equal to
that of other countries
but soccage tenure
& registration P.31

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Canada Catholic
Clergy prodigiously
landed liberal &c
Ellis recommends
returns of Crown's
Revenue from Canada
Miller prevented by
Judicatory at suit of
Seminary from
erecting a New Mill
P. 32.
Appeal Court divided
Mill remains
Point in question
Seminary has a
right to sue as a
Corporation

But for this all
Seigneurial Mills have
the Monopoly

Whole of Quebec
& Montreal either by
Crown or Crown &
Church as Seigneurs

Of most real
property Canadians
possession English
deterred
Per Ellis in instruction
consented to by local
authorities in England
Would have sufficed
by giving execution
to the Act.

Crown A a fifth of the sale
price suffices to
prevent sales

Fines commonly
evaded by compromise
before sale
Seigneur's right
no more than one
twelfth of purchase
money

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Change of tenure would
not benefit Seigneur
his profit increasing
with value of land
on sale
Seigneur's Fines &c
worth more than
the Rent.

Ellis would have
given up his most
valuable seigneural
rights reserving only
the smaller rents in
some parts to increase
in value the remainder

Landed Let at eight
pence would have
sold at soccage
for twenty Shillings

After 20 years
application differences
about tithes removed
Same could sell for
twice as much in
New York as in Canada

10,000, Acres
sold at New York
at 30 Shillings an
Acre p.33

By release of lease
dues scarce any relief
would be afforded without
do of Seigneur's do: and
to them they are strongly
attached by principle p.34
It was French policy to
prevent mutations.

P.34 General uncertainty
of landed property

Identifier: | JB/008/141/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1828-06-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	141	Info in main headings field	h. of commons canada committee 1828 may 15th and 17th ellice's evidence
Image	002	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	3245
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