Your most obed1 & humble serv*
Edm Burke. :
EXTRACT FROM A REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC RELATIVE TO COMPLETING THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THAT PROVINCE & NEW YORK, DATED QUEBEC, AUG* 4. 1773. [
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Council Minutes XXVI. ]
Your Honour may safely give the necessary Directions for going on with the
service immediately under the following Reservations, which we consider as the only expedient for
Resolving the
many Difficulties which have occurred, and without which we must find ourselves
under the necessity of deferring the Proceedings till another year.
That every thing shall remain between the two Provinces exactly in the same situation as well with regard to Jurisdiction as Property after the Line is run, as it does now until his Majesty's Pleasure upon that subject shall be known.
That his Excellency the Governor of New York will engage not to pass any new Grant or Grants of Land to the southward of the Line, the property of which is now or has at any Time been claimed
under any Title from the Crown of France. That we do not by our Consent to the running of the Line give up or in any manner recede or depart from any Right or Claim to Lands to the Southward of the Line which have at any time been or now are disputed between the two Provinces, but that the whole shall be submitted to his Majesty's Pleasure without Prejudice or advantage of any kind to be taken of this Instance, which