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N
+ - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - +
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
+ - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - +
| 30 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 |
+ - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - +
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
W + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + E
| 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
+ - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - +
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
+ - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - +
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
+ - - + - - + - - + - - + - - + - - +
S
The Townships are numbered in regular order northerly from the
International Boundary line or 49th parallel of latitude, and lie
in ranges numbered east and west from a certain meridian line,
drawn northerly from the said 49th parallel, from a point ten
miles or thereabouts westward of Pembina.
When the Government took over the territory from the Hudson Bay
Company in 1870, two entire sections in every fifth township and
one and three-quarters in every other, were assigned to the
Company as compensation. There were also two sections reserved as
endowment to public education, and are called School Lands, and
held by the minister of the Interior, and can only be sold by
public auction.
The same was done for the half-breeds; 240 acres were allotted to
them in every parish. Their farms are mostly on the rivers, along
the banks of which all the early settlers congregated; and to give
each claimant his iota the farms had to be cut up into long strips
of four miles long by four hundred yards wide.
On every section-line running north and south and to every
alternate running east and west nine feet, or one chain, is left
for roads.
