I take the first opportunity of informing your Excellency of my Arrival in this Pi-ovince ; and that upon a general Inquiry into the pubhck Affairs of the Governm* I found a Letter from you Dated 28*^ July last, and directed to Lieut* Governour Phips (then Commander in Chief, concerning the Differences w^h have unhappily arisen between the two Provinces with respect to their Boundary Line ; at present I am not able to give you any Answer to this Letter, being altogether unacquainted with the Matters complained of; but I shall take the first Opportunity to examine into them, and when the General Court of this Province shall meet (which will be the fifth of next month) I shall lay the Affair before them, & promote as far as I can a friendly adjustment of all Matters in Dispute between us ; And in the mean time I shall do every thing in my Power to keep the Borders in Peace & good order, Depending upon it that your Excellency will do the same on your side. I am with very great Respect,

Sir, your most humble and most Obedient Servant His Excellency Gov Clinton W Shirley.

(Endorsed) Gover^' Shirleys 11th August

Reced 18th 1753

Answered y® 26^*'

31st Augt Read in Council Vol. in. 48

754 PAPERS RELATING TO THE

REPORT OF THE LEGISLATURE OF MASS. ON GOV. CLIN- TON'S LETTER.

May it please your Excellency

The Two Houses have carefully Considered the Letter from his Excellency Governor Clinton to Lieutenant Governor Phips of July 281^^ last, which your Excellency was pleas'd to lay before us, together with the Report of a Committee of his Majesty's Council at New York, as also an act of New York General Assembly impowering Commissioners to make proposals for amicably setling the Controversy concerning the Line between this Government and that.