For by no Construction of the boundaries of the Land wliereof Partition is made, can that Tract run one Chain Due East along the North side of Bridges & Compyj far less 25 Miles as they pretend to do, for they are only to extend along the Land granted to Bridges and Company as it runs Korthward^ and if they cannot then immediately fall on the bounds of Capt" John Evans's Land and follow that likewise Northward 'till opposite the Hmiting House, They must, to supply the Defect in the Description of their Boundaries, follow the shortest Northerly Line that can be Drawm, wiiich will be along the said Ridge of Hills. Nor can they by any Construction extend to the Northward beyoijd the Hunting House, but by the said three lines which they have assumed they extend Nine miles and a half to the Northward of it.

By these three lines, of which not the least mention is made m the Grant of the Lands of wliich Partition is made, the Proprietors have taken in a Tract Containing about 150,000 Acres to which they have no manner of Right as I humbly Conceive. Of tills the King has granted at Several times about 100,000 Acres to sundry Persons who have Cultivated and improved the . same, to the great Increase of the Inhabitants, and Advantage of the Province, and pay Yearly to the Crown about .£125

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Proclamation Money Quitrent; and 50,000 Acres remain still in tlie Crown, to be granted to such persons as are willing to settle and Cultivate the same; which when Granted will yield X62 Sterling Yearly to the Crown. 11,683 Acres of this Tract are Set out by the Commissioners to be sold for defraying Expences of Partition.