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Appendix No. 32. 



Survey of Hay Bay in the Township of Fredeeicksburg in the County op 



Lennox and Addington. 



Peterborough, Ont,, July 8th, 1912. 



Sir, — I have the honor to report that, agreeable with your letter of May 20th 

 last, I spent the 22nd and 23rd at your Department in getting all the information 

 and data I possibly could which I thought might be of use to me in connection 

 with my proposed survey and investigation as to the ownership of some large 

 marshes in Hay Bay, in the Township of Fredericksburg, in the County of Lennox 

 and Addington. 



Having received tracings and instructions from your Department, dated May 

 29th, I proceeded to Napanee on June the 7th, where I met and consulted with 

 Mr. Carscallen. I was, however, unable to see Mr. U. M. Wilson until the follow- 

 ing day. 



On June 17th I left Peterborough — taking my assistant with me. I also took 

 a chainman along, as I learned that the farmers were very busy and that it waa 

 doubtful if I could employ a suitable man on or near the work. On the evening 

 of the same day we reached the home of John Sherman, on Lot 6, Concession IIL, 

 Township of Fredericksburg. 



Having procured a satisfactory observation for azimuth on the morning of 

 June 18th, I immediately proceeded to carry out your instructions by measuring 

 up several of the lines between the respective lots, in order to ascertain if these 

 lots contained two hundred acres, or thereabouts, as intended by the original survey 

 and specified in the original Patents from the Crown. 



I am pleased to report that all the lots measured by me show that the original 

 patentees received approximately two hundred acres exclusive of the area of any 

 marsh lying in front of said lots. With regard to locating the exact position of 

 the rear line of these lots as intended in the original survey, I found some difficulty 

 — this being a very old settled township I found that lots and parts of lots of 

 various areas, shapes, and descriptions, have changed hands many times, so that 

 ■ — generally speaking — the lay-out of the township as now held by the various 

 owners bears very little resemblance to that intended by the original survey. 

 Between the rear end of the concession fronting on Hay Bay and the rear end of 

 the concession fronting on the Napanee River there are several. gores or irregular 

 shaped blocks of land. There is, however, as far as I could ascertain, no dispute 

 whatever with regard to the location of the side lines, rear lines, or property lines 

 between any of the various lots or parcels of land in this section of the town- 

 ship. All the property lines in this locality are well defined by old rail fences (in 

 some places replaced in recent years by wire). These fences are well banked on 

 both sides by stones which have been picked from the adjoining fields by successive 

 generations. 



From the best evidence I could get the shore line of Hay Bay has changed 

 position very little during the past 128 years or since the original survey of the 

 township was made; as evidence of this fact, I may say that a stone monument 

 planted early in the last century to mark the intersection of the shore line of Hay 

 Bay with the line between Lots 14 and C.C. now stands exactly, at what I would 

 consider, the shore line of the present day. I might say, however, that I found the 



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