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
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discount of four per cent, per annum to be allowed for the time
of payment so anticipated.
" Jno & Nicholas I. Roosevelt. Acres 500,000 .£77,083 6 8
New York, August 1791.
" P. S. Out of the above described lands we consent to - except the lands and fisheries reserved by the deeds of cession from Oneida and Cayuga Indians to tlie State, and the lands at the falls called Oswego Falls, on the Onondaga river, and the lands at Oswego on the north-easterly side of the said river, where the same falls into lake Ontario, which by any former laws of the State were inhibited from being granted ; and also sucli locations as have been already made : On any of the said lands sliould the above proposals be acceded to, we expect that an allowance will be made for all lakes whose area exceeds one thousand acres.
(Accepted) Jno & Nicholas I. Roosevelt."