That all occupants under New Hampshire Titles, and within New York Patents, whether the latter be prior or subsequent, have such liberal equivalents out of the waste lands, and such other indulgences by a suspension of Quit Rents, as His Majty © shall think equitable, the situation of these settlers being the consideration of the greatest hardship & difficulty.

_ That all persons generally, who shall be found to have made settlements at the time of the Royal order for terminating these differences be considered as bona fide occupants, it being conceived to be impracticable to distinguish them according to the different periods of Settling; and that the settlers would not accept of such partial tho' perhaps equitable distinctions.

That a time bé limited for all: occupants to make their applications to Governt, and in failure to be excluded.

That the terms of the future instructions upon this subject be, . as much as possible, absolute, and unaccompanied with conditional Clauses, that are dependant on the dilatory declaration or the consent of the interested Parties.

It only remains to say, that the more speedy the Royal doch: sion; the more liberal the adopted principles, the greater the Bounty to those New Hampshire settlers who are within the N.

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York Patents, and the more extensive the eonfidence given to his Majesty's servants of this Government, the more readily will the present storm be dispersed, and a fertile Country be reduced to a state of cultivation and improvement. -