To Have and to Hold the same, with all rights and all privileges
thereto belonging, to the said ________________________________
Executors, Administrators and Assigns, for the term of Five Years
from the date of these Presents: Provided always that if the said
_____________________ shall have settled on and occupied the said
Land for the said term of Five Years, and have cultivated _____
acres thereof, within the said term, and have conformed to the
provisions of said Act, _____ shall be entitled to a Grant in fee,
under the Great Seal, for the said Land: but should he fail to
comply with the conditions of this License and conform to the said
Act, he shall forfeit all claim to the said Land and Grant
aforesaid.

Given under my Hand and Seal at St. John's
in Our Island of Newfoundland, this
___________ day of ______________
Anno Domini One Thousand Eight
Hundred and _________________
By His Excellency's Command,
_Colonial Secretary._

APPENDIX III.

"Antelope" at Spithead.
25th November, 1809.

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I am sorry to inform Your Lordship that I am again disappointed in my
hopes of coming at the Native Indians (Beothuks); they still keep in
the interior of the Island (it is reported) from a dread of the
Micmacs, who come over from Cape Breton. The articles that were
purchased for them are deposited in the Naval Store House at St.
John's, where I have directed them to be kept for some future trial of
meeting with them.

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THE GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS TO THE MICMACS, &C.

His Excellency, Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K.B., Vice-Admiral of the
Red, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of
Newfoundland, &c.

To the Micmacs, the Esquimaux, and other American Indians frequenting
the said Island, Greeting:

WHEREAS it is the gracious pleasure of His Majesty the King, my
master, that all kindness should be shewn to you in his Island of
Newfoundland, and that all persons of all nations at friendship with
him should be considered in this respect as his own subjects, and
equally claiming his protection while they