SCHEDULE A.

STATEMENT of Receipts on account of Crown Timber, for the Twelve Months ending the 31st October, 1887.

SCHEDULE B.

75,000 Pine, spruce and Tps. 1 and 2, New 7,144,868

705,774 705, 774

Ladner's Landing.... Steam... 10,000 (Returns not received.)

435,121 Kicking Horse River.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., 31st October, 1887.

T. S. HIGGINSON,

Crown Timber Agent.

No. 7.

ORDNANCE AND ADMIRALTY LANDS.

OTTAWA, 31st December, 1887. SIR,-I have the honor to submit a report of the transactions of this Branch for the fiscal year ended 30th June, 1887.

The three schedules annexed, marked respectively A, B and C, exhibit in a summarised form, the monetary transactions during the year.

(A.) Statement of Sales.-The sales during the year have been few, the proceeds amounting to $11,512.43, of which sum $3,752.43 has been paid. In the city of Toronto, a triangular piece of land (66 by 200 feet) being the south-west corner of Wellington and Strachan Avenues was sold for $3,400. Lots Nos. 2 and 4, situate on the south side of King street (60 by 104 feet, each) were sold for $2,160 and $2,820, respectively, and Lot No. 1 on the north side of Wellington Avenue (60 by 100 feet) for $1,320. In the Seigniory of Sorel 17 pieces of land forming portions of a gore of unconceded land lying between Concession Rhim beault and Concession North, 1st River, Pot au Beurre, in the Parish of St. Victoire, comprising an area of 139 arpents and 56 perches, have been disposed of to the proprietors of the lots in front, the pieces of land mentioned being the "continuations" of their respective holdings, at the price and in accordance with the terms and conditions referred to in my report of last year. Amount realized $298.08. In the Township of Marlborough, Lots Nos. 19 and 20, of the Broken Front of the 1st Concession, comprising an area of about 43 acres, the greater part being submerged, were sold to the proprietor of the lots immediately in the rear, for $51. In the City of Ottawa, 8 lots and 1 half lot have, by the payment of $1,463.35, made by the respective lessees, been converted into freehold, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the original leases granted by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance.

(B.) Statement showing the several localities on account of which moneys have been received.

(C.) Statement of amounts received (monthly) during the fiscal year. Total receipts $21,761.27.

In the month of April last, the Ordnance property known as the "Government Farm" at Longueuil, sustained for the second time considerable damage from the prevailing flood. In my report of last year I referred to the partial destruction of the "Old Hugh House." This year a large portion of the farm house heretofore occupied by the lessee of the farm (Mr. M. Carmel) and his family has been demolished by the action of the ice, and the building rendered totally unfit for habitation. A commodious stone walled barn adjoining the farmhouse has been crushed, and can no longer be utilized as a granary and cattle shed.

Towards the close of the fiscal year surveys of the Ordnance properties known as the "Block House" site, comprising an area of about 23 acres, situate at Edmundston, in the County of Victoria, and part of Block "A," about 18 acres, in the town of Dalhousie, County of Restigouche, in the Province of New Brunswick, were commenced by Mr. H. H. Robertson, D.L.S.. under instructions from this Department. These surveys have since been completed, and the lands have been laid off into town and villa lots with a view to their being ultimately disposed of by sale at publie auction.

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A License of Occupation was granted in the month of December last to the Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company of a portion (33% acres) of St. Mary's Island, in the District of Algoma, to be used in the construction of a bridge by means of which the Canadian and United States railway systems would become connected. At Stamford, in the County of Welland, a part of the "Chain Reserve" and the slope to the water's edge of the Niagara River, in the vicinity of the Falls, has been leased to Messrs. Swinyard and Howard, for the purpose of a tramway and elevators, for a period of 20 years.

I have much pleasure in stating that since the close of the fiscal year'a marked improvement in the receipts of this Branch has taken place, the amount received during the six months ended this day being $20,805.04 as against $13,025.56 received during the corresponding six months of last year, showing an increase of $7,779.48.

There are still a number of vacant lots situated in sundry localities, to wit: in the City of Ottawa, Kingston, Amherstburg, Fort Erie, Prescott, Sorel, Chambly, Quebec, Vespra, Edmundston and Dalhousie, the sales of which at a convenient season will greatly augment the receipts of this Branch.

During the year 570 letters were received, 681 letters written (including a number of lengthy reports), and upwards of 500 notices and statements of account prepared and forwarded to tenants and purchasers in arrears. 42 assignments were registered, 41 drafts of letters patent prepared, and 3 leases made out. About 1,100 accounts open with the respective purchasers and tenants of Ordnance lands situated in the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, have been carefully kept in this office. The number of warrants issued during the year for the Bank of Montreal at Ottawa to receive money was 179.

It would be difficult, as I have already had occasion to remark, to present an accurate statement of the large amount of labor performed in this office, or description of the quality of that labor, embracing, as it does, the consideration of conflicting claims, errors in surveys, preparation of numerous and varied reports, &c., &c. The staff of this Branch consists of the officer in charge, a general clerk and a temporary clerk.

A. M. BURGESS, Esq.,

I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

WILLIAM MILLS,

In charge of Ordnance and Admiralty Lands.

Deputy of the Minister of the Interior,
Ottawa.

A.

STATEMENT of Sales made during the Fiscal Year ended 30th June, 1887.

STATEMENT showing the several Localities on account of which Moneys have been received during the Fiscal Year ended 30th June, 1887.