90 ROYAI, SOCIETY OF CANADA 



In Council 7th January 1824. 



The Lot which he paid tlie fees for, has been taken from him and 

 located to some other persons many years since who have not received 

 the Patent and paid no fees for the Patent which he is under no con- 

 straint to pay un till issued. 



Great difficulty may occur in refunding the payment of the fee, 

 accounted for in the Public Account, and it may be just to re-assign the 

 Land if the present Locatee does not in a limited time perform the Set- 

 tlement Duty and pay the fee for his patent 



which is humbly submitted, 

 Signed Wm. Dummer Powell CJ. 



Signed P. M. 



A true Copy 



John Bbikie, 



Confl. Clk. 

 (Endorsed) 



Copy William Henderson Petition 



Referred for the consideration of the Hon Ex. CI. 

 Govt. House, 



Nov. 12, 1823, 

 By Command 

 Signed, G. Hillier. 



Dr. John Eolph to Talbot, 1824. 



My Dear Sir. 



Everything that is great and useful should begin in the Talbot 

 Settlement under your auspices. It was proposed by Dr. Duncombe 

 more than a year ago, to form an institution at the City of St. Thomas 

 for the instruction of Candidates in Medicine and surgery. No school 

 of that description has yet been formed in any part of the Province nor 

 is the hospital at York ever likely under its sleepy patrons to become a 

 source of public usefulness. 



We propose to call it " The Talbot Dispensatory " — The Honble. 

 Col. Talbot to be its perpetual Patron with visitorial Power. Colonel 

 Burwell President, without such Power, with privileges ascertained by 

 the bye Laws — and Captain Matthews and Col Backhouse Vice Presi- 

 dents so that there may be evidently nothing of a political nature in it — 

 and I hope you are sufficiently acquainted with the state of public feel- 

 ing, to be satisfied of my engaging in nothing with the mere view of 



