That in all cases, whete grants or eBnftidations shall become necessary, on acceptance of the above overtures, such grants or confirmations, shall issue to the grantees, at, and after, the rate of five pounds for a grant or confirmation of three hundred acres or under; and for every additional hundred acres, the additional sum of sixteen shillings; except in cases where lands shall be granted or confirmed to divers persons in

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one entire tract ; in which case, the grants shall issue, respectively, for fifteen pounds each; which allowances shall be in lieu of all other fees or perquisites whatsoever.

6th. That whenever, agreeable to the above regulations, new grants or confirmations shall become necessary under this state, for lands heretofore granted by ew Hampshire or Massachusetts Bay, the same quitrent only shall be reserved, which was reserved in the original grants under New Hampshire or JMassachusetts Bay.

7th. That where lands, heretofore granted by ew Hampshire or Massachusetts Bay, have been, since, confirmed to such grantees by new grants under JVew-York, the quit-rents on such lands, shall be reduced to what they were in the original grants, under Vew-Hampshire or Massachusetts-Bay.

8th. That in order to encourage the settlement of the aforesaid disputed lands in-a peaceable subjection to the authority and jurisdiction of this state, and also of all other Jands held within and under this state, the following commutation for the quitrents, shall be allowed, viz: That on payment, at the rate of two shillings and six pence, lawful money of this state into the treasury of this state, for every penny sterling of quit-rent reserved ; or, on delivery into the same of seventeen times the quantity of grain, or other commodity, reserved for such quitrent, the same shall thenceforward be utterly discharged, and forever cease and be extinguished.