have passed the Seal of this Colony since the acquisition of Canada, we recommend it to your Excellency to order the Surveyor General to frame a Map exhibiting the French Grants and English Patents to the Northward of Crown Point, to be laid before his Majesty with all convenient speed, with a List of the Patentees and an account of the Quantity of Land contained in their Patents and the Quitrents they are chargeable with. And for the security and satisfaction of the French Grantees, we also advise that in the Interim the several papers referred to us, be filed in the Secretarys Office, and a Copy of this Report and the Order to be made thereon transmitted to the Commander in Chief

of Quebec.

All which is nevertheless most humbly submitted by your Excellency's

Most obed humble servants,

Council Chamber at

By order of the Committee,

Fort George, in New York

January 6

th

W m Smith, Chairman.

1772.

And thereupon It is ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Council, that the Surveyor General of this Province do frame a Map exhibiting the French Grants, and the Patents which have passed the

seal of this Colony to the Northward of Crown Point, in

order to be laid

before his Majesty, with a List of the Patentees, and an account of the Quantity of Land contained in their Patents, and the Quit rents they are chargeable with.

That the several papers referred to in

the Report of the Committee be filed in the Secretary's office, and that a Copy of the said Report and of this Order be prepared in order to be transmitted to the Commander in Chief of Quebec.