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SIK WILLIAM JOHNSON. 999

' " said Allegheny mountains, to Lord Fairfax's Line, thence along ' " the same to the Spring head of the North Branch of the River ' " Powtomack, thence along the Western Boundary Line of the ' " Province of maryland to the Southern Boundary Line of the ' " Province of Pensilvania, thence along the said Southern ' " Boundary Line of the Province of Pensilvania to the End ' " thereof, thence along the Western Boundary Line of the said ' " province of Pensilvania until the same shall strike the River ' " Ohio, Thence down the said River Ohio, to the place of ' " beginning"

" And for which they offer to pay the Sum of ^610,460-7-3 ' being the whole of the money paid by Government for all the ' Lands purchased of the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix ; and the ' Memorialists did further offer to pay a quit rent of 2 Shillgs for ' every 100 acres of cultivatable Land within the said tract, ' praying an exemption from the payment of the said Quit rent for ' the space of 20 years, but offering to pay the said purchase- ' money to the order of the Treasury ; That the said Lords ' Commissioners of the Treasury, after long & full deliberation ' had thereupon, did on the 7'h day of April last acquaint the ' Memorialists that the Board had no objection to accepting the ' proposition made by the Memorialists for the said tract of land, •• with respect to the purchase money & quit rent to be paid for the ' same, if it should be thought adviseable by those Departments ' of Grovernment to whom it belongs to judge of the propriety of ' the Grant both in point of policy <& justice, that the Grant should ' be made -- In consequence whereof the Memorialists humbly ' renew this application to your Majesty that a Grant of the said ' Lands may be made to them, reserving therein to all persons ' their just & legal rights to any parts or parcel of said Lands ' which may be comprehended within the tract prayed for by the ' Memorialists --