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. To which tlie said Coll Bradford and Capt Livermore answered, that as they liad been appointed a Committee for the purpose abovementioned long before your Excellency's iirst Letter containing the hist Report of the Committee of this Honourable Board came to Boston, and had received no contradictory Orders, they thought tliemselves obhged to pursue the End of their appointment. But believed if their general Court had not been dissolved so soon as it was, they would have had Orders not to proceed.

And your Memorialist humbly conceives that the Reasons offered by the said Committee, in Favour of their abovementioned procedure were entirely frivolous, For that as a Settlement was in Agitation between the two provinces, and the General Court of the Massachuset's Bay had, since the Appointment of the said Committee proposed the Appointment of Commissioners aforesaid, the proceedings of the committee were contrary to pubMc Faith, and injurious to this province, And that the Massaohusets bay Government is properly chargeable therewith, the said Committee being appointed by them. Which matters, however, as they are of a public Nature, Your Memorialist would not presume to observe to your Excellency but that your