Uti recti, certi, immotique limites ibi quam- That as soon as possible, there be established priinum constituantur, quos excedere, aut there, right, certain and immovable boundaries transgredi in posterum neutri nationum liceat. which neither nation shall be allowed to exceed or pass over. Parati quovis tempore subditorum suorum Being prepared at any time to show by maps, et incolarum ibi proprietates jurisdictiones et and to sustain by other documents, the proimmotas limites in mappis figuratis ad oculum prietorships, jurisdictions, and unchanged demonstrare, aliisque documentis astruere. boundaries of their subjects and of the inhabitants there resident. Vel etiam, si ita potius visum sit, totum hoc Or even, should it be preferred, to submit this negocium ad arbitrium eorum Gubernatorum whole affair to the arbitration of those Governet assessorum referre, qui in iisdem septentri- ors and Councillors who preside in those same onalis Americfe plagis, nomine et auctoritate provinces of North America, in the name and utriusque regimine prfesident: ut amicissima authority of the two States: that by the most qua fieri poterit via, meliorique modo inter se friendly way possible they may the better conveniant, conventionisque suae tabulas agree among themselves, and send the records transmittant a Serefi: sua celsitudine domin- of their convention to be confirmed by the isque Grdinibus Generalibus ratihabitione mutual ratification both of his Serene Highness reciproca, si ita conducere existimant, con- and of the States General, if they shall see fit. firmandas.

Resolution of the States General on the preceding Papers.

[ From the Register of West India AfTairs, 1652 -- 1668, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]