as to the justice or injustice of this proceed-* 
ing. 
Whether the ancestors of many of the pre- 
sent lessees had not, as a recoin pence for their 
public services, received grants or leases of 
manors or lands, with implied assurances 
that their leases should be renewed, from time 
to time, upon easy and liberal terms, it is now 
difficult to determine, but it is well known, 
that many of the heads of families have con-* 
sidered the renewal of the Crown leases as 
certain provisions for younger children, and ‘ 
devised them accordingly. 
. It is most certain, that it would best pro-** 
jnote the interest of the community, that 
such measures should be continued, or that 
either the Lessees should purchase the in- 
terests of the Crown upon equitable terms, 
or the Crow'n purchase the remaining inte-* 
rests of the Lessees. 
Unless .one of the three plans above men- 
tioned is adopted, the adfual occupier will 
inevitably be racked up during the term, and 
