Where the original groundbrief of several transports cannot be found each transport shall be confirmed for 3 guildere.'

"5. If any man have 2, 3, or more ground briefs of small parcels of land they shall be comprised in one confirmation at the half price allowed by the Court.

" G. The Mayor and Alderman to draw up a list of houses and lots belonging to persons now in Holland or else where not in amity; nor under allegiance to his Majesty of Great Britain who are deprived of the benefit hereof.

As the time allowed for bringing in the said ground briefs is almost expired the Governor suspends the penalty for not bringing them in at or before the 1st April next until the 1st May this present year, 1667."

Surely more favorable or easier terms could not have been promulgated.

Such, in brief, was the nature of the tenure of land established in New York when the Province came under English rule. It was fortunate that that event was almost simultaneous with the greatest change in the law of England since the days of King John. That change really gave to New York the Ireehold, partible, and perfectly alienable, land system, which, with slight modifications, has existed from that day to this, and under which her population has increased from the 10,000 souls in the last year of Director Stuyvesant to the 5,000,000 people over whom Governor Hill now rules in this year of grace 1886.

9.

The Manors in New York, what they were not, and what they were.