The foregoing propositions are all which have occurred as necessary for your Lordships immediate consideration sa far as regards the claims and pretensions which have been set up and the disputes and Questions which have arisen concerning titles to Lands within this district and also to the best method of disposing of those Lands which in consequence of an adjustment of those claims shall belong to the Crown but we beg leave to observe that there are one or two other considerations of a more general nature and import that will upon this occasion deserve attention.

We have already stated that the District in question between

'the Rivers Hudson and Connecticut and particularly in the neighborhood of the latter does abound in many parts of it with Trees fit for masting for the Royal Navy and for other Naval purposes and we observe from the minutes of the proceedings of the Gouncil of New York that one of his Majesty's assistant Surveyors of the woods in.America especially appointed by the Lords of the Treasury for the Survey of this District has made report to them of two Tracts of Land which he has discovered upon Connecticut River containing a very considerable growth of White Pines and therefore we think it our duty to submit to your Lordships whether it would not be necessary in whatever plan shall be adopted for the final settlement of this valuable Country that the greatest care should be taken and the most precise Instructions given that the Limits of those tracts should be ascertained so as that they be not included within the Limits of any grants or any Settlements made thereon and that if it shall so happen that any part of those tracts is included within the limits of any grant already made and actual Settlement or Improvement has taken place in consequence thereof that proper endeavours be used to induce the proprietors to quit such possessions by offering them grants of waste Lands iy some other parts of the District equal in quantity to what is claimed by them in consequence of such possession with a further allowance of fifty acres of every three acres under actual cultivation and Improvement.