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. That Sir Henry Moore and r Carlton the Governors of the two Provinces fixed the place of the

Latitude of 45, by actual observation near the North end of the Lake in the Month of September

1767, and that on the 12 th August 1768 his Majesty was pleased to declare his Approbation in Privy

Council, and to direct in favour of his New Canadian Subjects that nothing in the Order of that Date

contained should affect the property of such as had possessions under proper Titles in Lands on the

South side of the Line, the Dominion of which was not disputed on the part of the Crown of Great

Britain And that the said Determination should not operate wholly to deprive them of such Concessions on the South side of said Line, whereon they had made actual settlements and Improvements, altho' the said Line might have been disputed by the Crown of Great Britain, but proportioned

to their Improvements at the Rate of 50 acres for every three that were improved, with the Provisoe