As this claim of the above Society has already been considered as meriting his Majestys attention and was as we conceive in Great measure the foundation of that Instruction to his Majestys Governor of New York, by which the lands in this district were lockt up from settlement, until his Majestys further order were known, it becomes our duty to consider in'what step an adequate compensation can be made for it, and we beg leave to suggest to your Lordships, whether such consideration may not be most properly obtained, & every other Religious Establishment for which Reservations were made in the New Hampshire Grants, effectually provided for, by subjecting every Grant which shall be made of Lands within this district in consequence of the above proposals to the payment to the said Society for the propagation of the Gospell of one Shilling proclamation p annum for every hundred Acres, over & above the Quit Rent payable to his Majesty; & that it be recommended to the said Society © that the monies arising therefrom be applied solely to the purposes of providing Ministers and School Masters for that District. !

If these propositions should meet with your Lordships approbation & his Majesty should upon your Lordships advice think fit to adopt them we do not apprehend that any difficulty will arise on the part of those, whose different Claims are meant to be provided for or tha' ay other measure will be necessary for the present, than merely a transmission of the propositions _ themselves to his Majesty's Governor cf: New York with the