Instead of speed the settlers got a Royal Commission.

A Commissioner was appointed, who did not arrive until two years after the Governor, and whose final award was not given for many months more.

When he did give it, he cut down the Company's purchase of twenty million acres to two hundred and eighty-three thousand.

As for land-claims of private persons, many of them became the subjects of litigation and petition, and some were not settled for twenty years.

Why three or four Commissioners were not sent instead of one, and sent sooner, the official mind alone knows.
Meantime, the weary months dragged on, and the unfortunate settlers of the Company were either not put in possession of their land at all, or had as little security for their farms as for their lives.