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

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to the End that the Government of this Province, by being duly apprized

thereof, may be enabled to give the Claims under such French Grants, the attention they shall appear to Merit.

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N. Y. Council Min. XXVI. ]

In Council; Wednesday, 18 Dec r 1771.

Present His Excellency William Tryon Esq. Capt. Gen'l &c.

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His Excellency communicated to the Board a Letter of the 30th of October from Lieutenant Governor Cramahe of the Province of Quebec enclosing several papers relative to the French Claims to Lands on Lake Champlain and acquainting his Excellency that he shall by the next Post furnish him

with all the Information he has collected relative to the French Grants on that Lake.

FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

His Excellency also communicated to the Board another Letter from Lieutenant Governor Cramahe, dated Quebec Nov r 11 th acquainting his Excellency that in consequence of his Letter of the 17 th August, he ordered the public Register deposited with the Secretary of the Province to be very l