1822 - Edocs

LXXYI.
ARTICLE XXVI.
The sales of land shall be made subject to the sam:
condition and charges of banks, roads, ditches and bridg-
es, contained in the preceding articie. But the purcii La-
sers are not subject to lose their lands, & in. the three
first years they do not fulfil the said conditions. Commandants
and syndic's shall oblige them to put themselves
within the rule, begin to perform the conditions in
a reasonable term, and if they do not do it, the said wor:
shall be done at the costs of the purchasers.
ARTICLE XXVII.
Care shall be taken to observe in the said sales thai
which is recommended in the 11th arti le, seeing the advantages
and utility which results from consolidating the
establishments always when it is practicable.
ARTICLE XXVIII.
The titles to the property of land which are sold o:
granted by way of compromise, shall be issued by the general
intendant, who after the price of estimation is fixed,
and of the media annata (half years,) or rent or qui:
rent, the said price of estimation shall have been paid in-
to the treasury? shall put it in writing, according to the
result of the proceeding which has taken place with th:
intervention of the Kings attorney.
ARTICLE XXIX.
The said procedure, shall be deposited in the office of
the finance, and the title be transcribed in another book
intended for the recording of deeds and grants of land in
the same manner as is ordered by the 17th article concerning
gratuitous concessions. The principal chamber
of accounts shall also have a separate, book, to take a not"
of the tities issued for sales and grants under compro
mise.
ARTICLE XXX
The fees of the surveyor in every case comprehended
in the present regulation, shall be proportionate to the
labour, and that which has been customary till this time
to pay.—Those of the secretary of finances, unless there
has been extraordinary labour, and where the new settler:
are not poor, (for in this case he is not to exact any thing
of them) shall be five dollars, and this shall include the
recording and other formalities orescrined, and those