82 TiMEHRI. 



Votla tout ! So far, however, from there being any ques- 

 tion of relinquishing the right of dominion over the region 

 of the Moruca, in 1840 : the Government of British Guiana 

 made a Grant of Land dX Moruca, for Missionary pur- 

 poses, in that very same year, to Dr. Clancy, the Roman 

 Catholic Bishop in British Guiana. The following is the 

 entry in the books of the Crown Surveyor of British 

 Guiana, preserved among the records of the Government 

 Lands' Department of the Colony, at the Office in 

 Georgetown : — 



" By His Excellency HENRY LIGHT, Esquire, Go- 

 " vernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over 

 " the Colony of British Guiana, Vice-Admiral and 

 " Ordinary of the same, &c,, &c., &c. 

 " Whereas an application has been presented to me 

 •• by the Right Reverend WlLLlAM Clancy, the Bishop 

 " of Oriense and Vicar Apostolic of British Guiana, 

 " praying for a grant of a traft of land situate, lying, 

 *• and being, on the left Bank of the Morocco Creek 

 " on the West Coast of the County of Essequibo\ com- 

 " mencing at the upper boundary of the Settlement of 

 " the Indian Captain PuNSHA, and extending upwards or 

 *' Westwards therefrom 82 roods in facade, and North- 

 *' ward 50 roods in depth, and containing seven acres, 

 " the said tra6l having been the site of an Indian Settle- 

 " ment known by the name of Mariana; as described in 

 " chart or diagram of the same made by the Sworn Land 

 '♦ Surveyor WILLIAM HiLLHOUSE, dated April 1840, 

 " hereunto annexed : and whereas the sum of seven 

 " pounds sterling has been paid into the hands of the 

 ** Receiver General of this Colony, being at the rate of 

 "one pound sterling per acre for and in behalf of Her 



