lO^h That t]ie Bounds granted by tliis charter, are Westward as far as the Colonies of Rhode Island Connecticut, and tlie Naraganset Country ; which words being in the case of a Grant from the Crown, the Committee conceive cannot extend their Bounds further than to Connecticut Colony, and tlierefore not to Connecticut Eiver ; And much less to the Westward of it because Connecticut itself at the time of tliat Charter, did not in the Knowledge of the Crown extend Westward of that River ; nor did till nine years after, w^lien by the Royal approbation the Agreement between this Province and that Colony taking place, (which was not to be in force till such Approbation) the Bounds of that Colony were setled as is before mentioned ; and the Committee conceive it to be against reason to suppose that the Crown intended by the said charter to grant any part of the Province of New York under tlie then immediate Government of the Crown, without express mention thereof in the charter, and without notification to Henry Sloughter then Governour of this Province, that the Crown had granted such a part of what was before within Ids Jurisdiction, by their Majesty's Commission aforesaid to him.

ll*h That both the Patents under which the Petitioners claim, the Committee find were granted under the great Seal of this Province, that of the Manor of Livingston in 1686, and that of Westenhook in 1705 : And that the Lands contained in the said Grants are, the Committee apprehend, within the Jurisdiction of this Province, tliey being both West of Connecticut River.