With Respect to the "Request that the Lands granted in the Township of Windsor, under the seal of New Hampshire, may be declared to be forfeited for a Breach of one of the Conditions in the Patent, the Committee conceive, that advantages of broken Conditions expressed in Royal Grants, are to be taken in a legal course, by regular Prosecutions against the Patentee ; and that it would be manifestly improper to order any steps for that purpose in the Present case, because we consider the Grant Which his Excellency refers to, as merely void for want of Authority in the Government of New Hampshire, to. issue Patents for Lands (as has been done in many Instances) on WG West side of Connecticut River.

But when the New Hampshire Grantees (who have generally by the Moderation of this Government been preferred to others) pray for new Patents under the Great Seal of this Colony, we conceive that such as have shewn a Disregard to the Terms

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under which they settled, in articles injurious to the Crown, & such also as have been guilty of Infractions of the Laws for the Preservation of Masts for the Royal Navy, are unworthy of his Majesty's Bounty, & that their applications for Lands in this Government ought to be rejected, All which is nevertheless humbly submitted this 25th Day of September 1770--By order of the committee Wm Smirx Chairman of the Committee. (Endorsed) The committee's Report on the order of Referrence of the 14t of Augt 1770 relating to the accusations agt Samuel Wells Esqt a Judge of ye Common Pleas of Cumberland County. 1770 Sept 29. Read & appproved of and confirmed.