That some short and effectual mode be established, by act of Legislature or otherwise, for ascertaining by the Inquest of a Jury, the state of possession, settlement and Improvement, upon all lands within the said district, claimed under grants made by the Governts of New Hampshire or New York, and that all such Lands, which shall by the verdict of such Jury appear never to have been possessed or improved, as also all other Lands, which have not been granted, be disposed of in such manner as the King shall think fit to appoint for the disposal & granting of waste lands, within the Province of N. York, provision having been first made for an equivalent to such of the Claimants of Land, under Grants from New York within the old Massachuset's Townships, in manner as before directed, and also for making good to the Commissioned and non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers, the amount of their several allotments, under such warrants of survey as they may have already received, in consequence of the Royal Proclamation of 1763.

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These, Sir, are in general the Propositions which have been suggested by the Board of Trade, and approved by his Majesty in Council, and it will be a great pleasure to me to find by your Report. that they are satisfactory to all parties, and can be carried into execution without difficulty or Discontent.

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