I am to acknowledge the Receit of your Letter of the 21 ^t lilt" and the Report and Resolution of your Government of the 12th wliich I laid before his Majesty- s Council whose further Sentiments on the Matter appear in their report to me of the lO'ii Instant which I now inclose together with a Copy of the Act mentioned therein ' and desire you will be pleased to lay the same before the General Court at their next meeting that such measures may be taken on the part of your Government as may prevent the mischiefs l)oth are threatned with and which must unavoidably happen should your province act in Conformity to tlieirlate

1 These papers relate' to Boundaries, and are of no essential consequence to «.he diificulties in the Manor. Ed.

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Resolution for it cannot with any appearance of Reason be imagined that this Government will tamely suffer yours to go on in settling the Lands claimed on both sides but on the Contrary it behooves us to take every measure necessary and expedient to prevent so extraordinary a proceeding This Government desires as earnestly as yours can possil^ly that the matter may be speedily determined but as this determmation cannot proceed from the Authority of either Governra' we could wish that in tlie mean time all proceedings be suspended, a proposal so reasonable and equitable in itself and so much more for the Honour and Interest of both Provinces that I cannot in the least doubt you will heartily acquesce therein and place the matter in such a light to your Government as may induce them readily to agree to it. And least the General Court should not meet shortly, I must desire your Honour in the mean time to give eft'ectual orders that all proceedings in consequence of their late Resolution may be stayed until the affair can be again laid before them.