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814 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

payment' of the consideration money to his Majesty's Receiver General issue his warrant into the Secretaries office, the Grant

do pass without any other form or process whatsoever and with- -

out any fees whatsoever to be taken either by the Attorney Generai the Receiver General or the Auditor and that neither the Gover nor the Secretary nor the Surveyor General do take any other fees than what are prescribed by the Ordinance of 1710 which we have alréady observed are higher than what are now taken by the same officers for the same service in any other Colony. _ Upon the whole my Lords we are sensible that many difficulties will occur in the execution of any plan that can be suggested for putting an end to those Disorders and abuses which have so long dishonored Government and disturbed the peace and quiet of a very valuable part of his Majesty's possessions that it is impossible to suggest every proposition that may be necessary

in a case involved in so much difficulty and perplexity and that,

the practicability and impracticability of those, we have now submitted will depend in great measure upon the acquiescence on one hand and the obstinacy on the other of those whose different claims we have stated but if the plan of accommodation we have chalked out, shall in the General outline of it meet with your Lordships approbation it is all we can presume to hope for and it must be submitted to your Lordships to advise His Majesty to take such steps thereupon as to your Lordships shall seem meet and expediént. We are My Lords Your Lordships most obedient and most humble Servants Whitehall Dect 34 1772 DartmoutTu SoaME JENYNS Bameer Gascoyne . GREVILLE GARLIES