Signed Thomas Mills, R r Gen

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FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

The above and foregoing are true Copies of a Deed of Sale of the Seigniory called La Manaudiere and of the Receipt for the Droit de Quint, as taken from the French Register Letter E. pages 313 & 358. in my office.

Given under my hand at Quebec this 15t h August 1771.

Geo. Allsopp D y Reg r

& Clk of Enrolments.

[N. Y. Council Minutes, XXVI. ]

At a Council held at Fort George in the city of New York, on Monday the sixth day of January 1772. Present His Excellency William Try on Esq. Captain General &ca.

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Mr. Smith from the Committee to whom by Order of the 31st ultimo was referred the Papers relative to the French claims to Lands on Lake Champlain presented to His Excellency the Committee's

Report thereupon, which being Read was on the Question being put agreed to and approved of, and Ordered to be entered in the Minutes and is as follows :

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE FRENCH CLAIMS TO LANDS ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

May it please your Excellency The Committee to whom were referred the several Writings lately transmitted (in pursuance of your Proclamation) from the Province of Quebec relative to the French Claims to Lands within this Government humbly Report That soon after his Majesty was pleased by his Royal Proclamation of the 7 th October 1763 to declare the 45 th Degree of Northern Latitude to be the Boundary between this and the Province of Quebec, divers Tracts of Land were granted under the Great seal of this Province to the Northward of Crown Point on both sides of Lake Champlain, and chiefly to the reduced Officers and Soldiers claiming his Majesty's Bounty Graciously promised by that Proclamation.