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whole Country on the West side of Connecticut River is by Hudson’s River , and the produce ofthe Northern part of that Country must be transported by that River .
About four hundred reduced officers and disbanded soldiers have already applied to me for landspursuant to His Majesty’s proclamation which at this time are to be surveyed for them in that partclaimed by New Hampshire . Your Lordpp 8 will perceive the necessity of determining the Claim ofNew Hampshire speedily.
People of all sorts who intrude on His Majb' 8 Rights in America are very assiduous in prosecutingevery measure that serves for their purpose, the case of the King’s rights in this Prov cc is left to [the]Gov r alone without a single farthing to defray any expence that may become necessary for thatpurpose ; for this reason the Gov 1 ' has no method but by applying to your Lordpp s The multiplicityof business has often prevented the King’s Ministers from taking the representations of the Gov rinto immediate consideration, and as he cannot be at the charge of solicitors, to remind your Lordpp 5these affairs have been often forgot. ’This has given great advantage not only to the intrusions fromthe neighbouring Colonies but to intrusions of private persons among ourselves. Any delay at thistime will certainly be prejudical to His Majesty’s interest; prevent the benefit designed for theArmy in America , and the settling of that part of the Country, besides the inconveniences andperhaps mischiefs which may happen by the different claims of Jurisdiction. These things I flattermyself will excuse these repeated solicitations on this subject from
My Lords, etc.
( L. S. ) At the Court at S‘ James the 20 th Day of July 1764.
Present.
The Kings most Excellent Majesty.
Lord Steward Earl of Hilsborough
Earl of Sandwich M r Vice Chamberlain
Earl of Halifax Gilbert Elliot Esq r
Earl of Powis James Oswald Esq r
Earl of Harcourt
Whereas there wa« this Day read at the Board, a Report made by the Right Honourable the Lordsof the Committee of Council for Plantation affairs dated the 17 th of this Instant, upon Considering aRepresentation from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, relative to the Disputes thathave some years Subsisted between the Provinces of New Hampshire and New York concerning theBoundary Line between those Provinces . His Majesty taking the same into consideration was pleasedwith the advice of his privy Council to approve of what is therein proposed, and doth accordinglyhereby Order and Declare the Western Banks of the River Connecticut , from where it enters theProvince of the Massachusets Bay, as far North as the forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude, tobe the Boundary Line between the said two Provinces of New Hampshire and New York .Whereof the respective Governors and Commanders in Chief of his Majesty’s said Provinces of NewHampshire and New York for the time being and all others whom it may Concern are to take noticeof his Majesty’s Pleasure hereby signified and Govern themselves accordingly. ^