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Province of New-York , and have therefore humbly prayed that a proceeding so prejudicial to theirrights and pretensions may receive Our Royal disapprobation; & whereas it appears both just &equitable that the claims of persons under such titles as aforesaid should not be affected without thefullest examination thereof. It is therefore Our Will and Pleasure & you are hereby directed & re-quired in no case to make any grants of lands so claimed, as aforesaid, upon Lake Champlain to thenorthward of Crown Point, within Our Province of New York , until the petitions & proposals forgrants of any part or parts of such lands shall have been transmitted to one of Our principal Secre-taries of State, in order to be laid before Us , & until Our approbation thereof shall have signified toyou Our said Governor or to the Commander in Chief of Our said Province for the time being.
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[ N. Y. Council Minutes XXVI. ]
At a Council held at Fort George in the City of New York
on Wednesday the fourteenth day of August, 1771.
Present His Excellency William Tryon Esq r Capt. Genl. &c.
M r Watts M> Morris M<- Cruger ' M r White
M r De Lancey M' Smith M r Wallace M r Axtell
It is Ordered by his Excellency with the advice of the Council that a Proclamation issue Notifyingto all Persons holding or laying Claim under Titles derived from the Government of France, whilein Possession of Canada, to any Lands upon Lake Champlain Northward of Crown Point, and to theSouthward of the forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude, to transmit unto the Secretary’s Office ofthis Province within three months from the Date thereof, Authentic Exemplifications of the OriginalGrants, together with satisfactory Evidence of the situation of the Lands therein mentioned, and ofthe Solidity of the Titles of the Claimants thereof at the time of the Surrender of Canada to theCrown of Great Britain; to the End that the Government of this Province , by being duly apprizedthereof, may be enabled to give the Claims under such French Grants, the attention they shall appearto Merit.
In Council; Wednesday, 18 Dec r 1771.Present His Excellency William Tryon Esq. Capt. Gen’l &c.
M r Horsmanden M r DeLaneey M r Smith M r White
M r Watts M>- Apthorp M' Cruger M r Axtell
His Excellency communicated to the Board a Letter of the 30 th of October from Lieutenant Go-vernor Cramahe of the Province of Quebec enclosing several papers relative to the French Claims toLands on Lake Champlain and acquainting his Excellency that he shall by the next Post furnish himwith all the Information he has collected relative to the French Grants on that Lake .