At The Council Chamber at Quebec
Monday, 9th November, 1789

His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Dorchester,
The Honourable William Smith, Esquire, Chief Justice.

Hugh Finlay Esq. George Powell Esq.
Thos. Dunn, Esq Henry Caldwell Esq.
Edwd. Harrison Esq. William Grant Esq.
John Collins Esq. Francois Baby Esq
Adam Mabane Esq. Chas. DeLanaudiere Esq.
J.G.C. Delery Esq. Le Cte. Dupre Esq.

His Lordship intimated to the Council, that it remained a question, upon the late Regulation for the disposition of the Waste Lands of the Crown, whether the Boards constituted for that purpose were authorised to make Locations to the Sons of Loyalists, on their coming to full Age and that it was his wish to put a Marke of Honor upon the families who had adhered to the Unity of the Empire, and joined the Royal Standard in America before the Treaty of Separation in the year 1783.

The Council concuring with his Lordship, it is accordingly Ordered:

That the several Land Boards take course for the preserving a Registry of the namesof all persons falling under the description aforementioned to the end that their posterity may be discriminated, from future settlers, in the Parish Registers and Rolls of the Militia of their repective Districts, and other Public Remembrancers of the Province, as proper objects, by their persevering in the Fidelity and Conduct so honourable to their ancestors, for distinguished Benefits and Privileges.

And it is also ordered, that the said Land Boards may in every such case provide not only the Sons of those Loyalists, as they arrive to full age, but for their Daughters also of that age, or on their Marriage, assigning to each a Lot of Two Hundred Acres, more or less, provided nevertheless that they respectively comply with the general Regulations, and that it shall satisfactorily appear that there has been no Default in the due Cultivation and Improvement of the Lands aready assigned to the head of the family of which they are members.

(Signed) J. Williams, C.C.