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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*The present State of New South Wales remains divided into 141 counties each with an area of about 40 square miles (the original survey measure). In turn, these are subdivided into 7,459 parishes. | |||
*These counties and parishes have significance for land ownership records and in legislative instruments but have almost none of the other significance that an English county or parish had and has. | |||
===Land Grants=== | ===Land Grants=== | ||
*Governor Phillip, in 25 April 1787, was empowered to grant land to '''emancipists'''. Each male was entitled to 30 acres, an additional 20 acres if married, and 10 acres for each child with him in the settlement at the time of the grant. | *Governor Phillip, in 25 April 1787, was empowered to grant land to '''emancipists'''. Each male was entitled to 30 acres, an additional 20 acres if married, and 10 acres for each child with him in the settlement at the time of the grant. | ||
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