I have the honor to transmit to your Lordship the List of Patents granted in the Court of Claims held in this province in September 1766 which are the grants of lands for one year. The Court of Claims I intended to hold ordinarily twice a year, but the distractions and interruptions to public business occasioned by the colonies rejecting the execution of the Act of Parliament laying certain stamp duties in America have prevented my holding the court agreeable to that intention.