When the landowners refused their claims for compensation under the agreement of May 1849, Mr. Chilman induced the Committee to recommend his for special arrangement, with two others. And my Report to Mr. Fox, who left these claims unconditionally to me, --- placed these claims in their proper class; and they were compensated like the rest they resembled. Fifthly, --- After an interval, not of seven years, but of fourteen, Mr. Chilman prefers a claim to swamp land; on the plea, not of his being entitled to it in exchange, but that it was measured in with the good land. In fact, that the good land was not of itself sufficient compensation, unless some bad land was thrown in! But the oral and written evidences contradict this. There is a worse witness than I have at command against this claim, in the shape of an illiterate man, by name Mogridge, who, under a written agreement, witnessed by barriball, and I understand in Mr. Chilman's handwriting, sold all his to him. Whether this evidence