SHM2-3-2_002P008

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A scanned printed document, a report page with the centred heading "SEIGNIORIAL TENURE" and a subtitle beginning "REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS" above several lines of dense typeset body text addressed to a governor. The page is slightly yellowed and has handwritten marks and a pencilled annotation in the upper corners, and a faint stamp appears along the bottom edge.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.

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SEIGNIORIAL TENURE.REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERSAppointed to inquire into the state of the Laws and other circumstances connected with the Seigniorial Tenure, as it obtains in that part of the Province of Canada heretofore Lower Canada, laid before the Legislative Assembly, by Message from His Excellency the Governor-General, on the 6th October, 1843.To His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B., one of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, &c., &c.MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,We, the Commissioners appointed by Your Excellency, to inquire into the Feudal and Seigniorial Tenure of lands, in that part of the Province of Canada called Lower Canada, in pursuance of an Address of the Honorable the House of Assembly, of the 7th September 1841, have the honor to represent to Your Excellency:To His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B., one of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, etc., etc.That, in pursuance of the Commission appointing us Joint Commissioners for the purposes therein set forth, and of the instructions accompanying it, we have, with all possible diligence, and to the extent of the powers reposed in us, proceeded in the investigation of the subjects submitted for our inquiry.Before proceeding to submit to Your Excellency the result of our examination of the important subjects which have engaged our attention, we beg to refer Your Excellency to a preliminary Report, dated the 28th day of September last, in which we had the honor to inform Your Excellency that, owing to the limited powers entrusted to us, it was wholly out of our power to report upon many of the subjects pointed out in our Commission, as we possessed no means to compel the attendance of persons, and the productions of papers essentially requisite for enabling us to lay before Your Excellency correct information touching many of the subjects of our investigation, and, in fact, but full and satisfactory information, on some parts of the subject, which the Honorable the House of Assembly had a desire to obtain, as expressed in our Commission.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

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