B.078 – Minutes of the Council at Quebec – 1778 to 1784

B.78. – B. M., 21,738.

Minutes of the Council at Quebec

1778/06/30 to – 1778/07/23

• General Haldimand’s commission as vice-admiral presented. The oaths of office taken by him and the councillors (names given), &c. (Page 2) - SN: 078001

• Committee continued. Oaths of oflloe administered to new councillors. (Page 4) – SN: 078002

• New councillors admitted. (Page 5) – SN: 078003

• Customs accounts examined and report ordered. (Page 6) - SN: 078004

• Report on customs accounts presented. with abstract, correspondence, &c. (Page 7) – SN: 078005

1778/10/31 to 1778/11/30

• Disallowance of an ordinance ”concerning the distribution of the estates and effects of persons leaving the province withou t paying .rvem er . their debts,” to be entered and repeal proclaimed, with minute of the disallowance; accounts for last six months to be examined. (Page14) – SN: 078006

• Report of the Board relative to the exportation of wheat, flour and biscuits read and approved, and export prohibited. (Page 16) – SN: 078007

• Deputy Receiver General’s accounts produced and fyled. Report of the committee on disbursements for last six months entered. Report and abstract appended.(Page 17) – SN: 078008

• Extending the time for making the aveux et denombrements for seigniories and the declarations for rotures (Page 22) – SN: 078009

1779//05/10 to 1779/07/15

• Committee appointed to consider and report on the refusal of the bakers of Montreal to enter into recognizances as directed by the ordinances, also as to the exorbitant price of wheat there. (Page 23) – SN: 078010

• Report of Committee recommends the measures to be taken with the bakers; that the magistrates of Montreal report on the sudden rise in the price of wheat, that measures may be taken to stop it ; and that a proclamation be issued to stop the exportation of wheat, flour and bread. (Page 23) - SN: 078011

• Proclamation approved of, for measures to reduce the exorbitant prices of wheat and flour. Leases of storehouses in the lower town of Quebec to be examined; and the claims against Government for the last six months to be investigated. (Page 25) – SN: 078012

• Accounts of Mr. Grant, Deputy Receiver General, presented with report and details. (Page 26) – SN: 078013

• Proclamation against forestalling, regrating and engrossing approved of. (Page 31) – SN: 078014

• Report on the leases of the King’s wharf and storehouse in lower town Quebec. (Page 31) – SN: 078015

1779/09/27

Instructions to the Governor General ordered to be copied and translated. (Page 32) – SN: 078016

1779/12/04

Samuel Holland admitted to the council. Time to render fealty and homage extended. (Page 33) – SN: 078017

1781/01/15

Proclamation to order the habitants to thresh out their grain immediately, so that it can be removed to places of safety in case of invasion, approved and ordered to issue, with copy. (Page 33) – SN: 078018

1782/02/02

Renewal of proclamation of last year as to threshing out grain. (Page 37) – SN: 078019

1782/06/24

Hon. Henry Hamilton admitted as Lieutenant Governor in room of H. T. Cramahé. (Page 40) – SN: 078020

1782/12/12

Petitions from Conrad Gugy for grant or lease of the St. Maurice Forges, and against the building of a wharf on the beach in lower town, Quebec. Copy of instructions as to granting Crown Lands asked for. Instructions relating to St. Maurice Forges presented. (Page 40) – SN: 078021

1782/12/19

Application by Mr. Gugy to lease the St. Maurice forges reported on favourably. The journals are given, showing the various votes taken in committee, meetings of which were held on the 12th, 17th and 18th December. (Page 43) – SN: 078022

1783/01/17

• Agreed to renew the proclamation respeeting the threshing of grain. (Page 50) – SN: 078023

• Report on the petition to prevent Mr. Murdoch Stuart building wharf on the lower town beach, Quebec; report dated 6th January, 1783. (Page 53) – SN: 078024

1783/04/14 to 1783/08/25

• Scheme of a lottery to build a prison at Montreal submitted. (Page 59) – SN: 078025

• Report of Committee on lottery scheme, approving of the same, adopted. (Page 60) – SN: 078026

• Further petition against the wharf on the beach, Quebec, referred to Committee. (Page 62) – SN: 078027

• Report of Committee that the question of the property mentioned in the petition is one to be settled by a court of law. (Page 63) – SN: 078028

• Petitions for license to export flour, &c., agreed to. The proposal to call the Legislative Council together to repeal the ordinance preventing the exportation of flour refused by the Governor, and ordered that licenses to export be issued to all applying. (Page 64) – SN: 078029

• Licenses granted to export grain. (Page 61) – SN: 078030

• Licenses granted to export cattle. (Page 67) – SN: 078031

• Application for license to export. Act fyled respecting the holding of patent offices in the colonies. (Page 68) – SN: 078032

• Applications for license to export granted. (Page 69) – SN: 078033

1783/12/16

George Davison appointed Legislative Councillor. Colonel Caldwell presents a paper respecting a proces-verbal for a road through his land. (Page 70) – SN: 078034

1784/04/14 – to 1784/07/21

• The Governor (Haldimand) presents his additional Instructions respecting the allotment of lands to reduced officers, soldiers and loyalists. (Page 71) – SN: 078035

• Plan proposed by Governor Haldimand for settling the loyalists. Leave of absence to Mr. Williams, Clerk of Council. (Page 73) – SN: 078036

• Papers relative to the accounts of the Deputy Receiver General, laid before the Council. (Page 74) – SN: 078037

• Further respecting the Deputy Receiver-General’s accounts. He is granted leave to go to England to settle them there. Petition by John Lees, to have flour from Philadelphia admitted, granted. Orders given that the lessees of the St. Maurice Forges put them in order. (Page 75) – SN: 078038

• Report to admit cargo of :flour from Philadelphia adopted. (Page 77) – SN: 078039