That your IMemorialist informer! the said Committee, that he claimed most of the T^nds mentioned in the petition of t]^ said William Bull and others, and had a good Title to them by Indian Deeds, and patent under the Crown and therefore desired them not to value or dispose of those Lands. Upon which the said Capt Livermore asked your Memorialist, under what Government your Memorialist claimed those Lands, and being told tliat he claimed them under the Government of New York, the said Committee signified their Inclination to be informed of the Right of this province to those Lands. Wldch nevertheless your memorialist conceives t'ne said Committee could not be ignorant jf. For that aJtho the Cliairman of the said Committee declared, tb^t he had never seen the Report of the Committee of this Honourable Board setting forth, the Title of this province to thoso

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Lands, among Others, yet the other two Members of the Committee confessed they had seen it, And upon your Memorialists producing a Copy thereof to the said Chairman, he made some Objection thereto, too trifling to deserve your Excellency's Attention, which however your Memorialist with no great difficulty removed.

That the said Committee also informed your Memorialist that they had heard of the Report of the Committee and Order of the General Court thereon for the appointment of Commissioners to settle tiie Boundaries between the two provinces, and of the Letter from tlie said Lieutenant Governour to your Excellencj^, inclosing a Copy of the same, but declared that they had never seen them. Whereupon your Memorialist read to them a copy of the said Report & order, and enquired of them tlie Reason of their being sent on such an Errand by their General Court, while they were solliciting the Government of this province, to join them in the appointment of Commissioners to settle the said Boundaries.