Could we think it necessary to enter on a Refutation of Facts unsupported by Proof, and grounded merely on the suggestion of the parties accused, the committee must unavoidably suspend their Inquiry as to what relates to the Prosecutions and Ejectments in Question until the Return of the Judges, the Attorney General, the Clerk of the Crown, and the Gentlemen of the Bar, now absent on the Northern Circuit, from whom the proper Information as to these Matters can only -be obtained ; and we beg leave to refer your Excellency for such Information to the Judges and officers of the several Courts.

His Majesty's Order declaring the Limits of the two Provinces, is dated the 20t July 1764, and on its arrival which was not until about the 10t April 1765, was communicated by the Governor to the Council, and a Proclamation issued on that Day notifying the same throughout the Province--In Consequence whereof numerous applications were made principally by reduced officers, and some by his Majesty's subjects of' thig Province for Lands on the East side of Ifudson's River ; and that no Setler under New Hampshire might be dispossessed by Grants in that Quarter, this Government thought fit by Order so early as the 224 of May 1760, to direct that the Surveyor General should make no Return on any Warrant of Survey then, or which might thereafter come to his Hands, of any Lands possessed _ under the Grant of New Hampshire, unless for the persons in actual Possession thereof.