up as sufficient under the Capitulation Articles in the Courts of Law, upon the supposition that they were within the Ancient Dominions of the Crown of France, and agreeable thereto this Government began again to Grant Lands in that Quarter, and continued the practice until Your Excellency was pleased to communicate to the Council his Majestys 50 th Instruction prohibiting Patents for Lands to the Northward of Crown Point, claimed under French Titles, and if the late Grants of this Province

Blame falls upon themowing to their neglecting to give the Information naturally to be expected, if they intended to submit to and take advantage of the Royal order of the 12 th August 1768. The Committee observe that among the Papers now transmitted from Quebec, there are no French

are detrimental to those Claimants, the Committee are of Opinion that the selves, as it is

Concessions and Ratifications for any of the Lands mentioned in the List of those said to be Granted

r en Roture, nor for several of those in the List of the Seigneuries, besides those specified in Cramahe's Letter to your Excellency, nor is there a single petition sent or preferred by either of those

Claimants for a Confirmation under this Province of any of their Grants, which

is

the

more extraordinary as Your Excellency's Proclamation required a full exhibition of their Titles, and the Crown is greatly interested in the Question concerning the Validity of

the French Claims in the Articles both

of Quit Rents and Escheats, their pretentions extending not only to a vast Quantity of Land, but to