That your Excellency, as your Memorialist hath been informed? was pleased (by the Advice of this Honourable Board) to send, to His Honour the Lieutenant Gov of tlie Massachusets Bay Colony, a Copy of tlie abovementioned Report of the Committee of the Honourable Board, and that tlie same w^as by him laid before the General Court of the said Province, by whom a Committee was appointed to consider the same, Who being surprised at the " extraordinary (tlio legal) Title in favour of " New York to a Valuable part " of that Colony Reported tiiat they were of opinion " that Commissioners s'^ou'd be appointed " to meet at some convenient Time and place, wliich the said "General Court miglit appoint, to Confer Avith Commissioners " that miglit be appointed by the Government of New York, and " with them to agree upon measures for sethng tlie Bounds of " the two provinces in an amicable manner, to the End that " good understanding might be preserved which ought to subsist " between fellow Subjects and neiglibouring provinces, and tliat " a Letter might be wrote to your Excellency desiring tliat " Commissioners on behalf of the Government of New York '' might be appointed & fully authorized for the purpose afore- " said " Which Report being accepted by both houses, and consented to by the said lieutenant Governour became a

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Compleat Act of tiiat Government, Wlience yonr Memorialist humbly conceives tli^it the Committee appointed, by the s*i General Court, upon tlie first mentioned Report of a Committee of the said General Coiu-t, were deprived of all tlie povi'er wlierewith they w^ere invested by their appointment.