Old Subjects who under the Faith thereof became considerable purchasers of their Estates, Hope and doubt not his Excellency will pay a due attention to their just Rights, and that all expect so serious a matter of so much Consequence to themselves and Families, will be carefully weighed and sufficient Time given them to adduce such proofs as in Honour and Justice may be required of them.

In Council; Thursday 31st day of Decembr 1771. Present His Excellency Govr Tryon and the other Members of Council as last mentioned, except Mr Apthorp absent, and Mr Wallace who is present.

His Excellency laid before the Board the following Writings and Papers which had been transmitted from the Province of Quebec in pursuance of the late Proclamation relating to the French Claims to Lands within this Government, on the banks of Lake Champlain.

1st. An Exemplification under the Seal of Quebec of the Order of the French King authorizing the Grant of Lands in Canada dated 20th May 1676.

2dly. An Exemplification of his Arret in Council directing that the Lands Granted be cultivated by the Inhabitants, dated 6th July, 1711.

3dly. An Exemplification of the French King's Declaration concerning the Grants in Canada, dated 17th July 1743, & an Explanatory Order dated 19th June 1748.

4thly. An Exemplification of an Arret in Council of the 15th March 1732.

5thly. Of an Ordinance of the Governor and Intendant of 10th May 1741. for a Reunion of divers Seigniories to the Demesnes of the French Crown.

6thly. Certificate from the French List of the Lands Granted en Seigneurie on Lake Champlain North of Crown Point dated at Quebec 28th October 1771, and signed Geo. Alsop Clerk of the Enrolments.

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7thly. A like Certificate of the Lands granted en Roture or in Soccage to the Southward of the 45th degree of North Latitude.

8thly. Copies of the Concession and Ratification to Daniel Lienard de Beaujeu Jun' of the 6th March 1752 and 1st June 1763 mentioned in the said List of Seigniories & Certified under the hand of said Geo. Alsop.

9thly. Copies Certified in like manner of the Concession and Ratification to Antoine Bedout mentioned in said List of Seigneuries.

10thly. Copies Under a like Certificate of the Concession and Ratification in the said List to Nicholas Berré Le Vasseur.

11th. Copies Certified in like Manner of the Concession and Ratification in the said List to Francis Daine.

12th. Copies of a Concession by the King to Monsieur Giles Hoquart Intendant, dated 20th April 1743, and of a like Concession to the same on 1st April 1745, and of a Contract and Sale thereof certified by Pierre Meziere and Pierre Panet, Notaries, who are Certified to be Notaries at Quebec by John Collins a Justice of the Peace 21st September, 1771.

13th. Copy of a Memorial to the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec by Lewis Lienard de Beaujeu de Villemonde dated 15th October 1771. representing that he had a Grant of a Seigneurie dated 20th July 1755 but that the Ratification was lost in 1756 and praying his Intercession with the Governor of New York for further Time to produce it than is prescribed by the New York Proclamation of August last.

14th. A Copy of a Notarial Certificate of the Sale of the Seigneurie mentioned in the said List to be Granted to Pierre Raimbault made by his Heirs to Benjamin Price and others Certified by the said George Alsop 15 August 1771.

15th. A Map of the French Grants on Lake Champlain from Fort Chambly to Crown Point Surveyed by Mr Anger dated 10th October 1748 and signed de Lery.

16th. Mr. Cramahe's Letter to his Excellency dated 11th Decr 1771.

Upon which his Excellency desired the opinion of the Council on the Measures proper to be pursued as well with Respect to the

Lands granted upon Lake Champlain, as to new applications for Patents in that part of the Country, and it was thereupon Ordered that the said Writings be referred to the Gentlemen of the Council, or any five of them.

ORDINANCE

OF THE GOVERNOR AND INTENDANT OF NEW FRANCE REUNITING TO
HIS MAJESTY'S DOMAIN ALL SEIGNIORIES NOT IMPROVED.
10 MAY
1741.

[MSS. relating to French Claims, &c., in Sec's. Off.]
Charles Marquis de Beauharnois &c.

Gilles Hocquart &c.

At the Superior Council of Quebec, Between the Kings Attorney General. Plta in his suit of the 20 Feby last on the one side;

And Sieurs . . . Pean, Major of the Town and Castle of Quebec

St

Vincent Ensign of Foot, De Beauvais Junr., De Contrecour Capt. of In-
fantry; De Contrecour Junr. Ensign, and La Perriere Capt. of sd. Troops
Lafontaine, Councillor in sd. Superior Council
Roebert

All the above named Grantees

Kings Store Keeper at Montreal
of Lands on
Lake Champlain Defts and cited the sixth
and eleventh of March last and the ninth of the present month: and Sieurs
Douville... and De la Gauchetiere Defts and defaulters through lack
of appearance either personally or by attorney on the summons which was
served on them the eleventh of said Month of March by the Huissier
Decoste, on the other side.'

Having seen the suit of the King's Attorney General demanding for reasons therein contained, that We would be pleased to permit him to cause to be summoned the said Sieurs above mentioned to be and appear before us at the Castle St Louis of Quebec within the delays of the ordonnance to direct and order, that they having failed to have cultivated & improved the lands granted to them in Seigniory and to have placed and settled inhabitants thereon according to the terms of the Arrets of the King's Council of State of the sixth July 1711. and fifteenth March 1732 and within the time specified therein, they shall be and remain reunited to His Majesty's Domain in this country; The answers of the said Defendts. present by which . . Sieur Pean states that he

1 So much of this Record only is given as applies to Grants on Lake Champlain and south of Line 45.