Sub-series consists of a variety of loose and bound minutes and committee reports relating to land disposition. Some records document the activities of the Executive Council's committee of the whole. Those in vol. 1 (pp.65-113), for example, appear to be fair hand copies of reports of the committee of the whole, created in 1800 during Lieutenant-Governor Milnes' period as Administrator, and dealing with a back-log of petitions left over from the Governor Prescott regime. Others, such as the records found in vol. 2 (pp.596-615), appear not to be minutes or reports of a committee but, rather, fair copy extracts from the minutes of the meetings of the Governor and Council, January-August 1806. The records in vol. 10, the majority of which date from the Province of Quebec period, are a miscellany of rough and fair copy reports to Council of the deliberations of the Land Committee (some with French language translations); rough minutes of full Council meetings; and "Schedules of Council Business" (i.e., rough agendas for full Council meetings). Similar records are found in that portion of the volume devoted to the Lower Canada period, but with the inclusion also of "journals" and reports of the committee of the whole concerning land business.
Volumes 11-15 and 210 contain a mixture of loose and bound items. The loose material includes rough minutes of full Council deliberations; rough reports of the Land Committee; reports and minutes of the committee of the whole; schedules of Council business relating to land; fair hand copy minutes of the Special Committee on Land Affairs appointed in 1805; reports of the Auxiliary Land Board established in 1823 to help streamline the land granting process; and a few items of correspondence concerning land record-keeping practices.
The identity of, and the relationships among, the bound items in these volumes are somewhat obscured by the physical placement of the records. Volume 210 contains a fair hand copy minute book of the Land Committee, from its first meeting in February 1792 to September 1793, along with "journals" of the meetings of the committee of the whole. Volume 11 contains the successor volume to that found in vol. 210. Its minutes cover the period from Dorchester's return in 1793 to March 1797. Volume 13 contains the fair hand copy minute book of the Land Committee from October 1799 to July 1801. There is no explanation of the whereabouts of fair hand copy minutes of the Land Committee between March 1797 and October 1799. Volume 12 contains two bound volumes of rough minutes of the Land Committee, August 1792-March 1797. These two items bear contemporary inscriptions that identify them as the second and third volumes of a series, the first volume of which is not present. These records are the "rough" version of the fair hand copy minutes found in vols. 11, 13 and 210.
