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

Mm by M Marr two Abstracts containing the Grantees Names,

exactly searched, and Transmitted

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those of the new Proprietors that have come to their knowledge, the Dates of the Grants as well as

of the Ratifications, and their extent as entered upon those Registers, as well of the Lands granted

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en Seigneurie as of those granted by the King en Roture Also Copies under the Great Seal of the Proviuce of all the Kings Edicts and Declarations relative to Grants of Lands which had Force of

Law there, that his Excellency might be enabled to Judge of the Justice of such Claims

--That by

these it appears that the Governor and Intendant, or in Case of their Death or Absence those

who

executed their respective offices, had the power of granting Lands to be ratified by the King within