REPORT.

The Select Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed June 10th, 1856, to enquire into and report upon the Statements contained in Dr. Bacot's Petition, concerning the refusal of the Deeds for his House and Land at Howick, report as follows :— Your Committee, having examined the conditions under which Doctor Bacot accepted the appointment of Assistant Staff Surgeon of the Pensioner Corps, are of opinion that, according to the fair and natural interpretation of the words in which those conditions are expressed, Dr. Bacot, besides promotion, was entitled to all the other advantages extended to Staff Officers of Pensioners ; and that, if any variation of the conditions was intended, the Deputy Inspector General, by whom Dr. Bacot was engaged to serve, did not use the words by which such intention would have been conveyed. Your Committee are therefore of opinion that, in justice the Petitioner's House and Land should be conveyed to him forthwith. HUGH CARLETON, Chairman. Committee Room, House of Representatives, June 17, 1856.