(8.) The Quantity of Land awarded or granted.

In the return will be foundad the acreage awarded or granted in each case. This, including the survey allowances granted under the Act, amounts in the whole to 292,475 acres, and will probably reach the total quantity of about 315,000 acres, if no alteration be made in the principles of the existing Acts.

The amount granted or awarded in the settlement of Old Land Claims is 267,175 acres; in the Pre-emptive Claims, 25,300 acres. I have thought it best to include land which has been directed to be granted as well as land for which grants have been actually executed, because, under the operation of the Acts, the award (except in a very few cases) really represents the final settlement of the claim, and the issue of the grant is merely the completion of the award. In this way it will be seen by any one who examines the return that here and there orders are stated to have been made for the issue of grants, upon selections and so forth, though the grant is not yet actually executed.