Mr Santen sure when hee wrote this article against mee did not consider the obligation that was upon us both to advance the Kings interest in our several stations, far less how inconsistent it was with his office to bee the only pson aggrieved at the advancement of his Mat ys revenue, when the people themselves that are concerned are not only satisfied but pleased with it

Again hee forgets that hee was a member of the Council when they gave it for their opinion that those former patents were insufficient® and were then dayly consenting to the passing of new ones.

As for sums of money exacted I own I have received £200 from Ranslaer, but its nothing to what

my perquisits would have amounted to according to the aforementioned regulation hee having a vast tract of land

From Hempted I recd one hundred pound by forty @ that in Cattle which is far less than my pquisits they hauing upwards of 100.000 acres, I own alsoe I have received <£300 from the cirty of New York, @ have granted them nothing more than what they had from my predecessors, @ is now before his Maty for a confirmation

The land that Mr Santen complains of to bee such a grievance, is the Dock which the town at their own proper charge have taken from the sea,

@ and dayly are at vast expense to maintain, @

what use they make of it is not my business to inquire, but as to their selling to the value of £1500 for