Suppose j£10 Ster. for each Thousand Acres, over & besides fees & Quit rent, (which Sum, is about the usual Rate of the Ind'^, purchase and will on a Million of Acres produce j£10,000. Ster) That in such case, the Crown will be very soon reimbursed without reckoning the annually accruing

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from the Grants. -- This is humbly offered in case his Majesty should not demand a Reimbursement from each Province of its particular Quota, -- and the private Grantees can have no reason to complain as the terms I have suggested,* are full as moderate as Indian purchases have been for some years past.

I am Glad that his Majesty is pleased to approve the Continuing the Boundary line so as to include the Province of N York, as I could not receive his commands in suffi'ct time & as I found that the Ind". more immediately affected by it were for continuing it in a manner I looked upon to be very disadvantageous. I thought it best to Stop at the Mouth of Canada Creek till I received the Kings Commands, which may be carried into Execution, on which occasion I shall Consult Sir Henry Moore,

Since the rec* of the plan prepared by the Lords of Trade I did conceive from some Letters I had the honor to receive that either that plan, or something similiar thereto would have been adopted, which I communicated to the Ind^. as Information which must prove highly satisfactory to them, as they consider the Interposition, &, management of their Affairs by the imediate servants of the Crown as best calculated for their happiness & Interests from the Very high Opinion they entertain of his Majesty which I thought it my duty always to promote. It was therefore natural for them to found their expectations on such a plan as seemed best for their Interests, this was all that was meant by the Observation in my former Letter In order to Shew as I thought it my duty to do that the hopes & desires of the Ind^. were founded on an Establishm^ under the immediate direction of his Majestys Servants, not as any remark of mine on a reform, which is the best calculated for relieving the Kingdom of a heavy burthen.