What Laws were then in being or afterwards enacted I know not tho° perhaps they are still among the Records but it is to be observed, that the Legislative authority was then assumed by the Gov r and Council without the assent or concurrence of the Representatives of the People and the Laws then made are now in disuse. And for this Reason, none of these Lands pay now any Quitrent, tho' ;

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colden's report on the lands in the province OF NEW-YORK.

their number be large, being, as I compute, not less than a Thousand : but I take into tins computation all those grants in recording whereof the Clerks have omitted all that part of the grant which is

commonly called the Habendum and Reddendum.

The reason of winch neglect, I suppose to be same words with a few that are Recorded at length in the beg'rTv'risr, for so much is recorded as wherein they can differ, when the Habendum and Reddendum is the same viz The Motives to the Grant, the bounds to the thing granted, and the Grantees name and designation. that they were all in the

Before I proceed further, it will be likewise necessary to observe that the greatest part Of Lc rig Island, Viz all that part which lies opposite to Connecticut, was settled from Connecticut, and claimed

by the Inhabitants under the Connecticut Title, to which in pursuance of the Proclamation above mentioned some regard is had. For the first, or at least the principle Grants of Lands upon this Island, are