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NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 933
honourable Congress, he has had the advantages of recruiting in
Albany and other places.
The convention beg to know what pay the honourable Congress
have allowed for the officers and privates of the troops of horse,
who were employed in the last campaign, in the service of the
United States.-I have the honour to be, with great respect,
Sir, your most obedient Servant,
(By order,) A. TEN BROECK, P.
Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq. President, $c.
BRIEF CONSIDERATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF
THE INDEPENDENCE OF VERMONT.
[ Miscellaneous Papers XXXIV. ]
1st Would it not be proper that Congress should first determine
the Jurisdiction as the people of those Counties are willing to
submit it to them.
2d Would not the taking of the Quitrent unask'd appear as
if we were purchasing Those people to a compliance, and would
therefore take away the merit of such an action and seem as if
we doubted our Jurisdiction over those Counties.
3d As the legislative body of the State will soon be formed
will it not be more proper to submit it to their decision, than a
Committee of Safiety, a small part of a body chosen by the
people for the sole purposes of framing a Government a body
who hitherto has regulated no more of the Internal policy of
the State, than there was an absolute and Immediate necessity
for.
4th Would it not be proper to call the principal people of
those Counties before this house hear their Complaints and know
the Terms they are authorized to settle upon.
5th have not many of the hampshire Grants been forfeited by
the Grantees is it equitable to confirm their titles in preference
to a just one, tho theirs be of an older date.
6th [Repetition of No. 2.]