The chief objection, which I can conceive, that will be made to this is that if a perpetual revenue be Granted, then the Gov rS will be free'd from that dependance on the People, and check on their behaviour that is necessary in all well ballanced Governments and which is the only check which the poor people have in America and that without such check the people of the Plantations may become a prey to Rapacious Tyrannical Gov rS or other officers, tho the people do not doubt of their obtaining relief from the King, and his Ministers yet that relief is at such a distance, and must be attended

with so much charge, that few private persons can have any benefit by it, and may often prove ineffectual by being too late even when many join in the complaint. Therefore unless some effectual solid check be given to the people, in lieu of what they have at present, by granting the Revenue for

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.