15 your Majesty's Colony of Quebec ; and we beg leave to observe to your Majesty that these pro¬ posals appear to us to arise entirely from Captain Holland 's zeal for your Majesty's service, as he desires no additional emolument, being well satisfied with your Majesty's gracious intention of appointing him to the office of Surveyor of Lands in your Majesty's Colony of Quebec . We are further humbly of opinion that the extraordinary expenses which he proposes for this service are perfectly reasonable and necessary; but we humbly recommend that two sets of instruments mentioned in his estimate should be allowed, lest the work should be interrupted by any accident happening to any of them. All of which is most humbly submitted. (Signed), HILLSBOROUGH , ED. , , BAMBER GASCOYNE. 4th February, 1764. An Estimate of the Expenses Attending General Surveys of His Majesty's Dominions in for the Year 1764. £ 5. d. To an allowance for a Deputy -Surveyor at Quebec , during the time the Chief Surveyor is employed in making surveys in other parts of the northern district........................................................... 100 0 0 To 2 assistant surveyors, to be employed in the general survey, at 7s. per day each..................................................... To 1 draughtsman at 5s. per day................................... To an additional of Is. 8d. per day, and to 1 sergeant £1 Is.; 10s. one corporal, and 6d. per day to 12 private men, to assist in such survey, as camp, colour and chainmen, and to make signals along shore and on the tops of mountains................................................. To extraordinary expenses for horses and guides, etc................... To an allowance for two sets of proper instruments for the suvreyor of the northern district.............................................. £1,117 12 0 At the Court of St . James', the 10th day of February, 1764. Present—The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Upon reading at the Board a report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the ¬ mittee of Council for Plantation Affairs, dated the 4th of this instant, in the words following, viz.: "Your Majesty, having been pleased by your Order in Council of the 21st of December last, to refer unto this committee a representation from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, proposing that accurate surveys should be made of your Majesty's dominions, but more especially of such parts as, from their natural advantages, require immediate attention, and to effectuate this purpose they submit whether it may not be expedient, and with a view to this temporary service, that your Majesty's dominions upon the continent of should be divided into a Northern and , with a Surveyor- General of Lands to be appointed for each, to act under such instructions as he shall receive from time to time from the said Lords Commissioners, the said Lords Commissioners did at the same time humbly lay before your Majesty a memorial they received from Captain Samuel Holland , whom they represent as a person of great merit, containing proposals for carrying a survey of the Northern district into execution, together with accounts and estimates of the several particulars necessary for that service, which the said Lords Commissioners conceive to be very reasonable. The Lords of the Committee, in obedience to your Majesty's said order of reference, this day took the said representation of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and likewise the several proposals contained in the said memorial of Captain Holland , into their consideration, and are humbly of opinion that it will be for your Majesty's service that the proposals of the said Lords Commissioners, and likewise those contained in the memorial of Captain Samuel Holland , should be carried into execution as soon as conveniently may be." His Majesty took this day the said report into consideration, and was pleased with the advice of his Privy Council to approve thereof, and accordingly to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury do cause the several proposals contained in the representation of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, and likewise those contained in the memorial of Captain Holland (copies whereof are hereunto annexed), to be 254 91 10 5 0 0 155 100 2 0 0 0 416 15 0