Inducements to ratify Indian treaty: Page #7

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preferred in behalf of a ? from the same Cayugas, for the ratification of a lease of a small tract of land lying on the water communication of the Seneka + Cayugas Lakes for the term of fifteen years and that the assembly said a legislative sanction was not necessary, the lease being for a term less than 25 years. All this information was repeated to me in such a manner as to afford a strong presumption of its truth. Yet, that I might have all the evidence which the case would then admit of it, I made inquiry of Col. Brinton Paine, one of the Judges of the County Court at Newtown, and he generally confirmed the information above recited. I then ratified the lease as stated in my report, grounding the ratification on this information and expressly referring to in