From information the Committee report, that some Canadian settlers may be had Appendix. on the following terms: No. 59. To obtain a grant of two hundred acres of land, free from quit-rent, for twenty Extracts from the years, paying a sol de cens. To have four Acres cleared, and a log-house built thereon, consisting of two apartments, and to have an out-house of logs to serve as a stable and barn, with three years' provisions for each family. The Committee have further been informed, that loyalists will set down on that tract, on the following conditions: That each family have a grant of land (200 acres) free from quit-rent, for ten years. Twenty-five pounds to be advanced, to stock the farm; the lands and improvements to be security that the money shall be repaid in ten years, but without interest. That each family be conveyed to the land allotted to them without expense. To have two years' provision allowed them, and delivered at their settlements. The lands from the mouth of Madawaska, down to the Great Fall on St. John's River, are of a superior quality; it is therefore presumed that settlers would sit down in that part on less encouragement than is above demanded. By order of the Committee. [Signed] Council Chamber, 18th October, 1787. HUGH FINLAY, Chairman. British Evidence. ada. Extract from the Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of Quebec, 4th August, 1792. Saturday, 4th August, 1792. At the Council Chamber in the Bishop's Palace. Extract from the Council Minutes of Quebec, Aug. 4, Present, His Excellency Major General CLARKE, Lieutenant Governor, 1792. Br. Ev. No. 32. HUGH FINLAY, FRANCOIS BABY, Esquires. Read the Memorial of A. and M. Robichaud, dated the 8th June, 1792. Read a Report of the Committee of Council, appointed to consider the Boundary between the Provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, and the means of encou raging the communication and settlement of the lands in that vicinity, dated 18th October, 1787. Read a Judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, dated 15th February, 1792. Read the Report of the Solicitor-General and Surveyor-General, dated Quebec, 29th July, 1792. Ordered, that these Papers be entered upon the Minutes, and it is humbly suggested by the Board, that it may be expedient to transmit copies to the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Brunswick, for his co-operating in representations to call the attention of His Majesty's Ministers to the adjustment of the limits necessary for preserving the public tranquillity on the borders of both Provinces. 112* APPENDIX, No. LX. EXTRACTS FROM THE BRITISH EVIDENCE, MADAWASKA SETTLEMENT. Extract from Mr. Br. Ev. No. 34. Appendix. This settlement derives its name from the River Madawaska, which empties itself No. 60. into the River St. John, about 36 miles above the Grand Falls, and about 160 miles. above Fredericton. The first settlers arrived soon after the Treaty of 1783, and the Barrell's Report. first, which was "of fifty-one several lots or plantations of land," was made to Joseph Muzzeroll, and 51 other French settlers, in the month of October, 1790, by Thomas Carleton, Esq., then Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New-Brunswick. The land granted lay at intervals between the River Verte and the Madawaska Rivers, nine miles distant from each other, and on both sides of the River St. John. The second grant was of 5,253 acres of land, lying below the River Verte, and was made to Joseph Soucer and others, by Lieutenant Governor Carleton, in August, 1794. These are the only grants ever made by the British Government within the settlement, excepting one to Limo Hibert, of 250 acres of land, opposite to and upon the River Madawaska, in May, 1825. APPENDIX, No. LXI.. EXTRACT FROM BRITISH AGENT'S REPLY BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS UNDER THE 4TH ARTICLE OF THE TREATY OF Ghent, From Appendix to the Proceedings of the Commissioners under the 5th Article. No. 61. Extract from British Agent's re Commissioners § 75. The underwritten Agent also begs leave to lay before the Board, an ori- Appendix. ginal Letter, dated Providence, 23d October, 1798, from Robert Liston, Esquire, at that time his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, whom his Majesty's Agent at that time thought it his duty to consult, before he could feel himself piy before the authorized to assent to the said proposal of the Agent of the United States at that time, under the 4th art. to recommend to the said Commissioners under the 5th Article of the said Treaty of 1794, Ghent. to alter their decision, as aforesaid, respecting the source of the said River St. Croix, which letter was addressed to, and duly received by, the said Agent of His Majesty before the same Commissioners, and is in the words and figures following, viz:. "PROVIDENCE, 23d Oct. 1798. of the treaty of. "Sir: "Private. "I have considered with attention your letter of this day, and it appears to me evident that the adoption of the River Cheputnatecook, as a part of the Boundary between his Majesty's American Dominions and those of the United States, in preference to a line drawn from the easternmost point of the Scodiac Lakes, would be attended with considerable advantage. It would give an addition of Territory to the Province of New Brunswick, together with a greater extent of navigation on St. John's River; and above all, a larger stretch of natural frontier, calculated to prevent future difficulties and discussions between the two countries. If, therefore, by assenting to the proposal of the American Agent, you can bring about the unanimous concurrence of the Commissioners in this measure, I am of opinion that you will promote His Majesty's real interests; and I will take the earliest opportunity, with a view to your justification, of expressing these my sentiments on the subject to his Majesty's Secretary of State. "I have the honor to be, with great truth and regard, "Sir, your most obedient humble servant, "WARD CHIPMAN, Esq." [Signed] "ROB. LISTON. |