These things I flatter myself will excuse these repeated solicitations on this subject from » My Lords, ete. CADWALLADER CoLDEN.

ORDER IN COUNCIL FIXING THE BOUNDARY

BETWEEN NEW YORK AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. ( L.S. ) At the Court at St James the 20th Day of July 1764.

PRESENT. The Kings most Excellent Majesty. Lord Steward Ear] of Hilsborough Earl of Sandwich Mr' Vice Chamberlain Earl of Halifax Gilbert Elliot Esqr Earl of Powis James Oswald Esq' .

Ear] of Harcourt

Whereas there was this Day read at the Board, a Report made by the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation affairs dated the 17th of this Instant, upon Considering a Representation from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, relative to the Disputes that have some years Subsisted between the Provinces of New Hampshire and New York concerning the Boundary Line between those Provinces. His Majesty taking the same into consideration was pleased with the advice of his privy Council to approve of what is therein proposed, and doth accordingly hereby Order and Declare the Western Banks of the River Connecticut, from where it enters the Province of the Massachusets Bay, as far North as the forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude, to be the Boundary Line between the said two Province of New Hampshire and New

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York. Whereof the respective Governors and Commanders in Chief of his Majesty's said Provinces of New Hampshire and New York for the time being and all others whom it may Concern are to take notice of his Majesty's Pleasure hereby signified and