They shall bring in their former Grants, and take out new Pattents for the same from the present Governoure in the behalf of his Royall Highness the Duke of Yorke ; " then after directing the making and filing of a survey and map within a year from the date of a purchase, the law continues, " Every Purchaser in acknowledgment of the propriety of such Lands belonging to bis Royal Highness James Duke of York, shall upon the sealing of the Pattent Pay unto the Governoure so much as they shall agree upon ;»not exceeding hundred acres." Some amendments and alterations were made to this code pursuant to its own j)rovisions at a meeting of the Court of General Assizes' held in ihc City of New York at the close of September, 1665, throe months later, one of which re-enacts the last cited clause in these more definite words, -- " To the end all former Purchases &c, all persons whatsoever who have any Grants or Patents of Towneshipps, Lands, or Houses, within this Government, shall bring in the said Grants or Patents to the Governoure and shall have them Revewed by Authority from his Royall Highness the Duke of Yorke, before the beginningeof the next Court of Assizes.^ That every purchaser &c. shall pay for every hundred acres as an acknowledgment two Shillings and six pence.'

This law and this sum marked the beginning of the Quit-rents and their amount or rate paid ever after to the King, and subsequently to the American Revolution to the State, and which only terminated under the State Quit-rent statute of 1815, which commuted them all for gross sums of money, as will be fully explained hereafter.