ACTS AND RESOLVES

OF

MASSACHUSETTS.

1784-85.

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ACTS AND LAWS,

PASSED BY THE GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS:

BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON, IN THE COUNTY OF

SUFFOLK, ON WEDNESDAY THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY

OF MAY, ANNO DOMINI, 1784.

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1784. - Chapter 1.

[May Session, ch. 1.]

AN ACT FOR THE APPOINTING AND EMPOWERING COMMIS- Chap. 1

SIONERS, ON THE PART OF THIS COMMONWEALTH, IN CON-
JUNCTION WITH SUCH AS ARE OR MAY BE APPOINTED BY
THE STATE OF NEW YORK, TO ASCERTAIN THE BOUNDARY
LINE BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH AND STATE AFORE-
SAID, EASTWARD OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

Whereas in the year one thousand seven hundred and Preamble.

seventy-three, a boundary line on the eastern extremity of

the late Province, now State of New York, and extending

from the southern to the northern boundary of the late

Province, now Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was

mutually agreed upon by Commissioners appointed and

authorized for the said purpose, by the legislatures of

the said Provinces respectively: And whereas it appears

that the said line has never been ascertained pursuant to

the said agreement:

Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of

Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the

authority of the same, That Joseph Hawley, Caleb Strong, Commissioners

Timothy Edwards, and Theodore Sedgwick, Esquires, be, appointed.

and they hereby are appointed Commissioners on the part

of this Commonwealth, for the ascertaining the line afore-

said; and the said Commissioners, or any three of them,

are hereby authorized and empowered to meet such Com-