I endeavour to distribute His Majesty's Bounty in the manner most agreable to the officers, and so that the grants may pass with the greatest dispatch and least expence, as will appear by the minute of Council which I inclose. Since that time in a few days, near one hundred Commissioned and noncommissioned officers and privates have applied for Grants of Land, so that from this Province, all the reduced officers and disbanded Soldiers in this part of North America, chuse to receive the Kings reward in lands within this Province.

As the reduced officers and Soldiers will find the necessary and unavoidable expence of Setling hard upon them, they are apprehensive of an additional expence of Law suits, however slight the pretensions be, and therefore it will greatly encourage and forward the Settlement of that part of the Country, to have a speedy end put to the pretensions of the Governt of New Hampshire, which your Lord's may effectually do, by only signifying to the Gov. of N. Hampshire his Majesty's pleasure on that head, and by sending a duplicate of the order to the Governor of this Province.

The only thing which can make any person prefer the grants of New Hampshire to those of this Governt is the difference of quit rent ; for as the Commerce of that Country must be carried on by Hudson's River, it must be more convenient for the Inhabitants to be under the jurisdiction of New York. The quit rent of New Hampshire, I am told, is at the rate of one shilling sterling for every hundred acres, and that of New York