His Majesty may have use, hereafter, of any portions of said Tract, to erect thereupon Forts, Batteries, Arsenals, Magazines

& other public Works, He can take them as well as the trees necessary for

said public Works, and the fire wood necessary for the Garrisons of said Forts, without being holden

His Majesty willing that the said Concession be subject to the conditions above enumerated without any exception ; and In testimony of His Will, He has ordered me to issue the to any compensation

:

present Brevet which shall be enregistered at the Office of the Superior Council of Quebec, to have

such application there as shall appertain, and which He has willed to sign with his hand to be countersigned

by me His councillor Secretary of State and of His Commands and Finances.

Louis, and lower down, Phelippeaux.

Signed,

Below, the present Brevet has been enregistered in the Regis-

New France, By the King's Attorney General according to the Arret

ters of the Superior Council of

of the day, by us, Councillor Secretary of the King, Chief Greffier of said Council, undersigned.

Quebec the 7^ October 1743

At

Signed, Daine.

[Here follows another Deed, dated

1 st

April 1745, to the same person of an additional Tract in

on Lake Champlain, by five in depth, extending from the North bounds of the former grant, subject to the same burthens and conditions ; and a Deed of Sale of the entire " Seigniory Hocquart" to M. Michel Chartier, Seigneur of Lotbiniere &c for the sum of Nine Thousand livres bearing date Paris 7 th April. 1763 ] Seigniory, three leagues in front