5^'^ That the Committee apprehend, Connecticut River continued the East Bounds of this Province until the 28 ^^ of March 1700, When by King William's Confirmation of an Agreement between this Province and Connecticut, the Western Bounds ol that Colony were setled at twenty miles from Hudson's River : And they cannot find any other Alteration in the Eastern Bounds of this Province, and have no Reason to believe any other was made before or since that time.

6^1 That King James the first by Letters Patent bearing date the Z^ of November in the IS^h year of his Reign, granted unto

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the Council of Plymouth from forty to forty eight degrees of Nortli Latitude inclusive : In which there is a Recital to this purpose " Now forasmuch as the King has been certainly given " to understand, by divers good Subjects that have for these " many years frequented those Coasts and Territories, between " the degrees of 40 and 48, that there is no other Subjects of any " Christian King or State, or by an Authority from their " Soveraigns Lords or Princes, actually in possession of any the " said Lands or Precincts, whereby any right, claim, interest or " title, may or ought by that means to accrue or belong to them " &ca" And also a Provisoe in these Words " Provided always " that the said Lands Islands or any of the Premisses by the " said Letters Patent intended or meant to be granted, were hot " then actually possessed or inhabited by any other Christian " Power or State." Which Patent the Committee conceive could not vest any thing in the Grantees, by reason of the said Recital and Condition upon which it was granted, part of the Premisses being then actually possessed by the Dutch, and most of the said Colony of New Netherland being withni the Bounds thereof.