I have already had the honor of acquainting your Lordship that there have been proceedings only on 28 of these Townships ; In 24 of them the Rights of the Society and all the grants in the first Charters for public uses have been expressly reserved for the uses therein mentioned. No failure has been made but in the four first Grants which passed the Council, and as I am informed that the Charters were not at that time before them, it occasion4 an Omission which has been guarded against ever since, of these four, only one has passed the Great Seal, so that the shares may be still reserved in the three which remain. This happened before my arrival in America.

The Third Complaint is, That as the Residue of such Lands

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which are not already granted away, they are burthened with such expenses and Charges as are greatly more than equal in point of value to the Shares themselves. The only way this assertion can be answ? is by. denying it flatly, and I am extremely sorry to be under the necessity of declaring to your Lordship that there is not a word of truth in it; When the first Petitioners for these public Shares could not obtain them for their own uses, as I have already mentioned they desired that the Society might be Charged with a Share of the Expenses which would be incurred for surveying &¢. But this was likewise absolutely refused,