It is with singular pleasure I can inform you I accept of and assent to the Terms contained in the Reservations of the said Report at the same time I assure you it never has been nor is my Wish or Design to take any Advantage either over the Jurisdiction of the Government of Quebec, or of French claims lying within the Government of New York but am determined to wait the declaration of the Royal Mind concerning the Premises I own I do not apprehend Hazard in paying Obedience to the King's Proclamation of 1763, and carrying into execution the reciprocal obligations of both ;

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governments.

THE BOARD OF TRADE TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

25 MAY, 1775.

[Lond. Doc. XLV.]

My Lords; Pursuant to your Lordships order dated the 17 th day of June 1772, we have taken into our consideration the Petition of Michel Chartier de Lotbiniere, Chevalier and styling himself Seigneur

de Alainville and d'Hocquart, setting forth amongst other things that he has been deprived and dispossessed of his two Lordships of d' Alainville and d'Hocquart situated at the head of Lake Champlain in a most advantageous position and consisting of the best and richest land in the Province of New

York to which they were annexed eighteen months after the Treaty of Peace and humbly praying for the reasons therein contained that they [he 1] may be reinstated in the full enjoyment of his said

two Lordships in the same manner as when under the Government of France and that lie may be reimbursed the expense he has been at in endeavoring to obtain redress therein and to be indemnified for having