' Wuereas the Senate and Assembly of this State, did, by LS. their several resolutions, passed the twenty-first day of this instant month of February, declare and resolve, That the disaffection of many persons, inhabiting the north eastern parts of the county of Albany, and certain parts of the counties of Charlotte, Cumberland and Gloucester, clearly included within the ancient, original, true and Jately established bounds of this State, arose from a contest, about the property of the soil of many tracts of land, within those parts of the said counties respectively.

952 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

That the said contest was occasioned, partly by the issuing'

of divers interfering patents or grants, by the respective governments of JVew- York on the one part, and those of Massachusetts- | Bay and New-Hampshire on the other, antecedent to the late establishment of the eastern boundary of this State ; partly by an higher quit-rent reserved on the said lands, when re-granted

under JVew- York, than were reserved in the original grants under-

New-Hampshire or Massachusetts Bay, and the exorbitant fees of office accruing thereon; and partly by a number of grants made by the late government of New-York, after the establishment of the said eastern boundary, for lands which had been before granted by the governments of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts-Bay respectively, or one of them; in which last mentioned grants by the late government of JVew-York, the interest of the servants of the crown, and of new adventurers, ' was, in may instances, contrary to justice and policy, preferred to the equitable claims for confirmation, of those who had patented the lands under Vew-Humpshire or Massachusetis-Bay:--