Wednesday, 13 October 1819

Commissioners met:  Mr. Cottman in the chair

                                Mr. Stewart

            Present:        Mr. Smith

                                Lieut. Col. Ready

Read the minutes of the last meeting.

The Board resumed the consideration of the Petions before the Board where the following Lots of unconceded Lands in the different Ranges of Concessions in the Seigniory of St. Gabriel were granted to the follow persons:

            Reverend J. Mills -  No. 3 and 4   Fifth Range of Concess. with the Island in front thereof  NW  side Jaq. Cartier River

            Captain Fowles - No. 5 and 6   Same Range

       5th Range of Conc. SEast side :

            J. Wilson -                         No. 14

            John Emery (Enery?) -       No. 15

            J. B. Noreau -                   No. 17

            Edw. Sweeney -                No. 19

            John O'Neill -                    No. 22

                                -                    No. 23  reserved for his brother in Europe

            Jacob Pozen -      The lots adjoining the former grant made to him by the Board 3rd and 4th Concess.     

The whole of the above Lots granted upon the terms and conditions stipulated in the Deeds of Concession to Mr. Neilson and Mr. Stewart and the further stipulations contained in the late grant to Lieut. Harvey (?)/  The Secretary reported to the Board that he had engaged a party to open a Road directed by the minutes of the Board of the 29th.  The accounts of the agent at Three Rivers being laid before the Board ordered that not being made in Conformity with his instructions the calculations examined and the accounts returned to him, directing  him to pay the Balance into the hands of the Treasurer N. W. Ryland, Esq. likewise to inform him that such irregularity must not happen again but greater punctuality observed inn transmitting his account as soon after the six monthly periods are expired as possibly.

                                                                        Adjourned to the Call of the Chair   

(Note from the archive records:  POZER Jacob: This is Pfotzer Jacob, son of the lord of Aubert-Gallion New Beauce, Georg Pfotzer.  The latter is a native of Willstätt in Baden, Germany (Source: Association of Families of Germanic origin of Quebec, AFOGQ).