grant lands to such of them at whose expence they had been located and surveyed and confirm to others the Grants which had already been made and this Petition having been referred to this Board by your Lordships Order of the 5 July 1770 they in their Report thereupon of the 6 of June 1771 entered fully and circumstantially into the consideration of the Question both as it respected the case of the Petitioners in particular as well as every other Species of Claimants under whatsoever title or pretention submitting under each head such opinion and advice as to them seemed best adapted for terminating all difficulties and disputes and putting that valuable district into such a state of cultivation and repose as would make it happy in itself and beneficial to the Mother Country.

The propositions contained in that report being of great extent and importance necessarily requires a very serious Consideration and while this matter was under deliberation the papers annexed to your Lordships orders of reference and upon which we are now directed to report our opinions were received.

Upon examination of these papers they appear to us to contain two objects'of consideration vizt

1st The propriety or impropriety of reannexing to New Hampshire the Lands West of Connecticut River which the Goyt and Council of that Province represent to be a measure of essential importance to its interests and of great Publick advantage.

gudly The conduct of his Majestys Governor.of New York in having in contradiction to the letter of the 49th article of his Instructions taken upon him to pass Patents of Confirmation of several of the Townships heretofore granted by the Government of New Hampshire within that district and having also made other Grants of Lands within the same.