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One of your Inhabitants named Quasey who is the bearer of this, having made some propositions about what is called the Lake, the Council has examined what had been done in regard to that place. The platt which was taken of it is not of the nature required to draw contracts of concessions by; all that can be done at present is to assure those whose names are in the petition presented to the Council, and those who are included in the resolution taken thereon, that as soon as a true plat can be taken by the officer appointed for that purpose, the right given to the said petitioners and those included in the resolution of the Council, shall be confirmed to them if they have behaved well and conformed to the orders of the Government, unless an express order from Court should prohibit the execution thereof; and in the mean time, those therein concerned may continue their works, without however extending beyond the bounds prescribed in the resolution of the Council. It appears that part of that land has been sold before the Government had given any assurance of possession, that Money seems to have been acquired by fraud, for to sell that to which one has no right, is certainly to cheat, which will be examined more particularly when contracts of concession shall be granted. As for those who are seated on lands for which they have no grants; if (as at some time since I writ to the receiver of the Kings rents,) they have lost their deeds of concession, by fire or other casualty, and that they can bring proofs of it, the Government may insure them their possessions — But for those that have appropriated to themselves the Kings lands contrary to justice, and in opposition to orders so often repeated to that end, they may reckon themselves as having no right to their ill gotten possessions, in which a distinction must be made of those who after having marked spots of land, have conformable to the orders of the Government desisted from improving them, from those who contrary to the said orders have persisted on and continued
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