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of Mr. Collins to know whether they have any and what claims on the
Lands in question.

Surveyor' General's Office
29th March 1796.
Sir.
In answer to your lerter of this covering an Extract from the Minutes
of the Committee of the whole Council. dated 28th March 1796,
respecting a letter from Lieutenant-Governor LeMaistre. in behalf of
sundry inhabitants of the Bay of Chaleurs settled on certain lands which.
since the year 1756 1 always considered as my property, 1 beg the favor
of you to acquaint the Honorable Committee that although 1 might
set up a good Claim to the lands in question yet in order to make those
settlers minds easy. 1 am willing to and hereby do relinquish al1 preten-
sions to those lands
Samuel Holland
Jenkin C. E. C. Williams Esq.
(Clerk Executive Council)

Quebec, 1st April 1796
Sir.
In answer to your letter of the 29th of March, enclosing extracts
from Lieut. Gov'r LeMaistre's letter to His Excellency Lord Dorchester,
dated the 9th of October 1795. You will please to inform the Committee
oft he whole Council that the two hundred acres of land which 1 claim
at Bonaventure. Chaleurs Bay. is mine by Patent under the great Seal
of the Province dated the 16th August 1766, long before : Joseph Ar-
cenaux. Jean Arcenaux, Joseph Bourg. Joseph Gauthier. Jean Bernard,
Isaac Bernard. J. B. Lavache and Gregoire Arcenaux had made improve-
ments thereon. but it seemed to be desired by Government on a former
representation from these men that they should be made easy. 1 informed
His Excellency in Council that 1 was willing to cede my property in
Chaleurs Bay to them who. 1 shall suppose had unwithingly set them-
selves down on land belonging to me, conceiving to be part of the waste
lands appertaining to the Crown.
1 have paid the Patent fees. quit rent and sundry expenses of which
1 shall not claim reimbursement, if the Committee of the whole Council
consider it to be expedient that they should not repay me. upon what
Lieut. Gov'r LeMaistre has set forth in his letter concerning this situation
of those poor Acadians and 1 beg leave to request that the Committee
may have the goodness to point out the mode in which those men may
best be put in quiet possession of the parcels of my farm which they
occupy individually.
1 am ready to do whatever the Committee may see fit to recommend
for that purpose.
1 am, with much tath. Sir. your most obedient Humble servant,
Hugh Finlay
Jenkin Williams Esq.