Having made these observations we would premise further that in order to remove every objection fully to evince the Uprightness of our Intentions and our earnest desire for an accommodation We are willing that if Congress should deem the above mode of determining the Right*of Soil between interfering Claimants under New Hampshire or Massachusets Bay on the one and under New York on the other part ineligible we will consent that it shall be determined either immediately by Congress themselves or in such other manner as they shall think proper we will also concede that on all Questions relative to such Right of Soil this State shall not vote in Congress, that Congress shall guaranty to the Inhabitants on the Grants the Performance of these Terms and that no Proceeding of Congress requiring or recommending it to the Inhabitants to submit

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to the Authority of this State shall be construed to injure any Right of Jurisdiction which the States of New Hampshire or Massachusets Bay may respectively have to the above Gal be or any part thereof. :

This last Proposal does not arise from an dhikehicnsint that probably these States will claim the jurisdiction of any of the Grants lying West of Connecticut River but is mentioned solely with a view that nothing would remain which can possibly have even the appearance of a Difficulty We will at all Times chearfully submit the Right of Jurisdiction to the decision of Congress agreeable to the 9th Article of Confederation.