In the mean time I can assure you from good Information that Michael Hallinbeek who w' as lately confined in the Goal of Dutchess County made his Escape from thence with several Debtors Nor can I tliink he met with any severe Treatment while there -- It must be a mistake that he was confined in a Dungeon, there being I am told no such Place belonging to that Goal, and as to Bail being refused for his Appearance, in this too, I imagine your Government has been misinformed for as he was committed on

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the Proclamation I issued with the Advice of the Council he could not have been admitted to Bail but by Application to the CJiancellor or to one of the Judges of the Supreme Court and I am well assured no such Application was ever made.

I have a just sense of your Excellency's good Intentions to bring tliis unhappy Controversy about our Boundaries, to an amicable Issue and am fully convinced nothing is more likely to advance this good End than a mutual Condescension and Moderation which I shall endeavour to promote by every Method in my Power as long as I continue in the Administration.

I am

REPORT ON THE PAPERS FROM MASSACHUSETTS BAT.

May it please your Honor '

In obedience to an Order in Council on the 29*^ day of September last referring to the Committee of Council and the Commissioners appointed to examine into the Eastern Boundaries of this province A Letter from his Excellency Governor Shirley to the late Governor Clinton of the 17tt» of September last together with a Representation of tlie Council and Assembly of the province of the Massachusets Bay of the ll^f' September to Governor Shirley and An Act of that Province to appoint Commissioners to examine into the Boundary Line or Lines between Massachusetts Bay and New York and to treat with the Commissioners appointed by the Colony of New York respecting the same As also a Vote of the said Council and Assembly relating to the Confinement of one Michael Hallinbeck in the Goal of Dutchess County We have duly weighed and considered of the same But before we proceed to Report our opinion thereon to your Honour beg leave briefly to recite the proceedings touching the said Matters as they appear in the papers laid before us which we find as follow.