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:--

That the aforesaid disaffection has been greatly increased, by an act passed by the Legislature of the late Colony of Vew York, on the ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, entitled, " An Act for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies in the places therein mentioned, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the rioters :'--That many of the aforesaid disaffected persons, though unjustifiable in their opposition to the authority of this State, labour under grievances, arising from the causes above mentioned, which, in some measure, extenuate their offence, and which ought to be redressed :--

. That, therefore, the Legislature of this State, while on the one hand, they will vigorously maintain their rightful supremacy

_ over the persons and property of those disaffected subjects, will, on the other hand, make overtures to induce the voluntary submission of the delinquents :-- _ That an absolute and unconditional discharge, and remission of all prosecutions, penalties and forfeitures, under the above mentioned act, shall be an established preliminary to such overtures ; which overtures are as follows viz.