His Honour the Lieutenant Governor The four Gentlemen of the Coun , il of New York & All the Commissioners Except M^. Franklin absent by his appoint raent in the Morning.

The draught of the Representation &c was read and considered Paragraph by Paragraph, some amendments made, and the whole was agreed to and ordered to be minuted as follows.

That his Majesties Title to the northern Continent of America appears to be founded on the Discovery thereof first made, and

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the Possession thereof first taken in 1497, under a Commission from Henry the 1^^. of England to Sebastian Cabot.

That the French have possessed themselves of several parts erf this Continent which by Treaties have been ceded and confirmed to them.

That the right of the English to the whole Sea Coast from Georgia on the South to the River S'. Lawrence on the north excepting the Island of Cape Breton, and the Islands on the Eay of S'. Lawrence, remains plain and indisputable.

That all the Lands or Countries westward from the iVtlantick Ocean to the South Sea, between 48 and 34 Degrees north Latitude were expressly included in the Grant of King James the ]stj to divers of his Subjects, so long since as the Year 1606, and afterwards confirmed in 1620 -- and under this Grant the Colony of Virginia claims extent as far west as the South Sea, and the Antient Colonies of the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticutt were by their Respective Charters made to extend to the said South Sea, so that not only the Right to the Sea Coast, but to all the Inland Countries from Sea to Sea has at all times been asserted by the Crown of England.