a short time, it cannot be expected that ever they will consent to a perpetual Revenue of any kind, or that they will be easy under it. Now I have laid before your Excellency in the best manner I can within the bounds I think it

necessary to confine myself, the most material things concerning the Grants of Lands, as far as If the

remedy for the abuses set

forth be thought practicable, no doubt your Excellency will easily obtain

an Instruction, such as the

relates to the King, the people of the Province, and the Grantees.

Earl of Bellamont had to propose to the Assembly to find some proper means for establishing the Quitrents generally over all the lands in Province at the same same rate and for promoting the

improvement and settling of the Country, for that otherwise the King will take such legal methods, And if as shall be thought proper for vacating extravagant Grants, and receiving his Quitrents. there be a permission given at the same time to apply the Quitrents to the support of Government, and absolutely to confirm all past Grants, I believe an Assembly may conform with the Instructions, under such restrictions as shall be thought necessary checks on the officers In order to compute what the Quitrents would immediately yield I make the following calculation

Long Island is computed to be 1 50 miles long, and Albany to be the same number of miles distant from New- York, I suppose Long Island to be eight miles wide, one place with another, and that 10 2,688,000 Acres miles on each side Hudson's River would immediately pay rent, this amount to d which at 2* 6 the hundred will yield £3350, and if the Cities of New York and Albany pay a rea-