...have not changed it. In reason, in justice, and in law, it is now what it was in 1769. This is plainly a contract to which the donors, the trustees, and the crown, (to whose rights and obligations New-Hampshire succeeds,) were the original parties. It is a contract made on a valuable consideration....

...perpetual application of the fund to its object in the mode prescribed by themselves. This was plainly a contract to which the donors, the trustees, and the Crown, to whose rights and obligations the State succeeded, were the original parties. It was a contract made on a valuable consideration...