northward of Crown Point, within Our Province of New York, until the petitions & proposals for grants of any part or parts of such lands shall have been transmitted to one of Our principal Secretaries of State, in order to be laid before Us, & until Our approbation thereof shall have signified to you Our said Governor or to the Commander in Chief of Our said Province for the time being.

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N. Y. Council Minutes XXVI. ]

At a Council held at Fort George in the City of New York on Wednesday the fourteenth day of August, 1771. Present His Excellency William Tryon Esq Capt. Genl. &c.

M Watts M De Lancey r

M> Morris

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M Smith r

M Cruger M Wallace r

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M White M Axtell r

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It is Ordered by his Excellency with the advice of the Council that a Proclamation issue Notifying

under Titles derived from the Government of France, while

to all Persons holding or laying Claim

in Possession of Canada, to any Lands upon Lake Champlain

Northward of Crown Point, and to the

Southward of the forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude, to transmit unto the Secretary's Office of this Province within three months from the Date thereof, Authentic Exemplifications of the Original

Grants, together with satisfactory Evidence of the situation of the Lands therein mentioned, and of the Solidity of the Titles of the Claimants thereof at the time of the Surrender of Canada to the

Crown of Great Britain