And whereas the Government of JVew-Hampshire, by the Letters Patent of his late Majesty, given at Whitehall, the third Day of July, 1741, is described in the Words following ; " Our Province of Mew-Hampshire, within Our Dominions of JWVew- England in America, bounded on the South Side by a similar Curve Line, pursuing the Course of Merrimac River, at three Miles Distance on the North Side thereof; beginning at the Atlantic Ocean, and ending at a Point due North of a Place called Puutucket Falls ; and by a straight Line drawn from thence due West cross the said River, ¢i/] it meets with our other Governments ; and bounded onthe South Side by a Line passing up through the Mouth of Piscataqua Harbour, and up the Middle-of the River to the River of Mewichwannock, Part of which is now called Salmon Falls, and through the Middle of the same to the furthest Head thereof; and from thence North two Degrees Westerly, until One Hundred and Twenty Miles be finished from the Mouth of Piscataqua Harbour aforesaid, or until it meets with our other Governments."

And whereas it manifestly appears by the several Grants or Letters Patent above recited, that the Province of New-York is bounded to the Eastward by the River Connecticut: That the Province of New-Hampshire, being expressly limited in its Extent Westward and WNorthward by His Majesty's other Governments, is confined to the same River as to its Western Boundary ; and that the said Government of New-Hampshire is not intituled to Jurisdiction Westward, beyond the Limits of that River.