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Surveyor Generals Office Quebec 15 Novr 1792

Sir, I am honoured by your Letter of the 20th Octor, respecting the Claim of Lt. Col. James Gray to the Promontory or Point of Land between the East Part of the Town Plot and the Petite Pointe Maligou on the Bank of the St. Lawrence in the Township of Cornwall; in answer to which I beg to inform you that Lt. Colonel Gray applied to me for a Certificate for the said Point of Land in the Year 1784 which I did not then think myself authorized to grant without previously representng the same to General Haldimand then Governor of this Province:-On my return to Quebec I accordingly represented it to General Haldimand, who was pleased to Grant Colonel Grays request and directed me to communicate the same to Col. Gray by Letter which I accordingly did.

I have the Honor to be, Sir, your most obedt. Hble. Servt

To E. B. Littlehales Esqr.

S.H.

Quebec 2d July 1792—

Sir, Enclosed you will find Four Warrants with orders of Survey for the same, the Township of Rawdon is to be laid out for half pay officers. But as I am at a loss as yet to whom I am to apply for the Payement of the Survey, you will postpone Commencing any operations on that Township until you receive further Instructions from me.

One half the Expence of the other Three Townships being to be defrayed by Government, you are at liberty to Draw on me for 15£ pr. Township, the supposed half of the Expence; I therefore need not recommend Economy, as it will be obvious how very attentive you must be to that point, as your accounts will undergo a strict scrutiny; and every charge, that can not really appear absolutely necessary will be disallowed. You will guide yourself accordingly and I make no doubt acquit yourself satisfactorily indeed a strict attention to the above cannot fail of redounding to your Credit, and of furnishing you a surety of future constant Employment.

Col. Willm. Fortune.

S. HOLLAND

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SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE

QUEBEC, 1st August, 1792.

SIR, I Beg to inform you that the Warrant of Survey in your Favour requiring a Township to be laid out by the Name of

now

into Execution by Mr.

is

Deputy

Surveyors; and it being required by the said Warrant that the Petitioners should make Provision for exempting the Crown from more than One Half of the Expence of the said Survey, I am to request the Favour of you to lodge in this Office the Sum of Fifteen Pounds towards carrying the same into Effect.

When the Survey shall be compleated, I shall cause a Regular Account of the Expences to be laid before you, to the End that an Equal Division

thereof may be made between the Crown and the Petitioners agreeable to the said Warrant.

I have the Honor to be, SIR, you most humble Servant,

P.S. The Favour of an Answer in writing is requested, to the End that. in Case of your relinquishing the Preference given you, the Warrant may be returned in Form, whereby the Land may be again open for other Petitioners.

NB The above sent by Mr. Josh. Sawyer & Mr. May Sept. 3d 1792. They were dated Augt. 1st 1792.

(on second back) To Sundry People to advance their Proportion of the Exps

of their Surveys.

1st August 1792.

LIST of the reduced Officers of Provincial Corps in the District of Mecklenburg, Stating the Corps they belonged to, the number of acres each is entitled to, the number received and the quantity still due.

Quebec, 20th December, 1785.

Sir,-In order to distinguish the several Claimes of the Fiefs in Quebec and its Bailiwick on the Plan now forming I have applied to the Communities, who are the Proprietors for their Plans, to lay down the Boundary lines, who with chearfulness complied with my demands, Excepting the Wardens of the great Church or Fabrique, who have denied me theirs; however Monsr. Dechaneau one of the Church Wardens, in whose possession the Plans are has told me, since I had the pleasure of seeing your Honour this morning, that he will let me have the Plans, by a requesition from you, as Commander in Chief.

I find that the difficulty made by them arises from a Law Suit they have with the Seminary, but by my promising them that I would lay down the Boundary lines as claimed by both parties, he seemed to have no objections to deliver it on your Honours Order.

I have the Honour to be with the greatest esteem, Sir, Your Honours most Obed., Humble Servt.,

His Honour the Commander in Chief, &ca.

(The outside names in each column in Ms. written in later (?) with different ink.)

(on back) Names of the Settlers and those who have drawn town Lots at

Cataraqui. 1785.