" Gentlemen, -- Instead of our former proposals for the pm chase of the following tract of land, we beg leave to substitute the following to wit : ' We propose to purchase the unappropriated lands comprised within the following boundaries, to wit : All that certain tract of vacant land, bounded northerly by the tract lately purchased by Alexander Macomb, easterly by Oothoudt's patent and Canada creek, southerly by the Wood creek, the Oneida lake and the Onondaga river, and westerly by the said Onondaga river and lake Ontario ; and also tlie Islands belonging to the State in front of the said lands, upon the following conditions, to wit, at the rate of three shillings and one penny for each acre ; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid, with law^ful interest, in six months from the date of the contract, and the remainder in two equal instalments, one instalment in one year, and the other in two years from the aforesaid date. When the first yearly instalment is paid, then a patent shall issue for one half of the land to be laid out in a square as nearly as possible, on such end of the tract as the commissioners shall think proper ; and when the second yearly instalment is paid, then a patent shall issue for the right of the said tract : But if we think proper to pay the purchase money belbre the times above specified, then patents to issue for the same, and a