Third Addition To the Rules and Regulations For the Conduct of the Land Office Department[Caption Title]. [At Head of Caption Title: At the Council Chamber, at Quebec, On Wednesday The 20th Of January, 1790].

folio broadsheet. 38 x 24.2 cm. English & French text in parallel columns. signed at end ‘J.Williams C.C.’ (edges bit tatty, a few tiny inconsequential holes). "Preamble and regulations 1-7, passed by the Council Jan. 20, 1790. They authorized district land boards to execute the order of the governor-in-council of Oct. 22, 1788, for putting certain reduced officers upon an equal footing with those of the 84th Regiment. This order extended generally to officers, veterans of the American Revolutionary War, settling in Quebec, who had improved those lands already granted them by royal instructions of 1783, 1787, or otherwise, grants of land on the scale promised as King’s bounty, Apr. 3, 1775, to officers serving in Royal Highland Emigrants (84th) Regiment; i.e. to field officers 5,000 acres; captains 3,000; lieutenants 2,000 acres." (Tremaine) One of 500 copies printed? Rare. Vlach 916. cfTremaine 664 (4to.? but similar dimensions; unsigned; copy located in Public Record Office, London).