SIR,--I am directed by His Excellency, the Governor-General-in-Council, to inform you that his Excellency has appointed you a Special Commissioner to investigate the complaints of the settlers in the township of McNab in your District, and you will report direct to His Excellency in Council. You will proceed, immediately on the receipt of this communication, to the work of investigation, taking the petition of Angus McNab and others as your basis.--You will be minute and particular in your examinations, and will visit every lot, value the same, and if possible see every settler personally, and ascertain from him the truth or falsity of the complaints made to the Government. I have the honor to be, etc., (Signed), W. H. LEE, _C. E. Council_. FRANCIS ALLAN, ESQ., } _Crown Land Agent_, } Bathurst District, Perth.} [REPLY.] BATH. DISTRICT OFFICE, } PERTH, 4th Nov., 1840. } SIR,--In compliance with the desire of His Excellency in Council, I beg to enclose you remarks upon the petition of Angus McNab and others, settlers in the township of McNab, which I trust will meet the approbation of the Council, and I am, etc., (Signed), FRANCIS ALLAN, _Agent, Bathurst District_. W. H. LEE, ESQ., } _C. E. Council, Toronto_. } [REPORT.] Remarks upon the Petition of Angus McNab and other settlers in the Township of McNab, on the inspection and Report of the general affairs of the Township of McNab, by Francis Allan, Agent of the Honorable, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, in the Bathurst District: