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official and legal description contained in Governor Carleton’s com- 
mission. 
The establishment of the Misseguash line as the boundary appears 
to have been entirely satisfactory to New Brunswick, but Nova Scotia 
at once vigorously protested. Indeed her protest preceded the estab- 
lishment of the line, for not only was a protest against the separation 
published at Halifax in June, 1784 (Winslow Papers, 211), following 
no doubt the announcement from Lord Sydney to Governor Parr in 
May, 1784, that the separation was to take place (Archives, 1894, 419) 
and that the Misseguash was to form the boundary, but Governor Parr 
and his council sent an agent to England in the same year to counter- 
act the agitation for it (Winslow Papers, 219). Immediately after the 
separation became known in Halifax, a remonstrance, signed by the 
Governor and others of prominence, pointing out the inconvenience 
of the boundary, was forwarded to England (Winslow Papers, 240), 
but in October 5 of the same year, Lord Sydney, Secretary of State, 
apparently answering some remonstrance of Governor Parr, writes: 
the latter that the line is not likely to be changed (Archives, 1894, 
426). 
But Nova Scotia seems to have been silenced rather than con- 
vinced, for, although we hear no more of attempts to secure a change 
of line during the next few years the efforts were renewed more 
vigorously than ever in 1792. In that year the House of Assembly 
of Nova Scotia presented an address to the Lieutenant-Governor of 
the Province which read as follows : — 
To His Excellency, John Wentworth, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor and 
Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of Nova Scotia, &c., 
&e., &c. 
The Humble Address of the House of Representatives in General Assembly. 
May it Please your Excellency : 
We, the Representatives of His Majesty’s faithful subjects in the Province: 
of Nova Scotia,. beg leave to submit to your Excellency’s serious considera- 
tion, the very pressing necessity of an Alteration in the Division Line, be- 
tween this and the Neighbouring Province of New Brunswick. 
We beg leave to suggest that as the Division Line at present runs (follow- 
ing the courses of the Missquash River, to its source and from thence due- 
East to the Bay of Vert,) it is not only rendered vague and indeterminate from 
the Many Sources of said River, most of which are of equal Magnitude, and 
take their rise from different Directions, but on many accounts renders the: 
situation of the Inhabitants of the adjoining Counties of Cumberland and 
Westmoreland, extremely inconvenient and perplexing as their Lands are- 
severed into small Pieces, by the direction of said Boundary Line and Part 
of them thereby made Subject to both Governments, and the great difficulty” 
of ascertaining the Limits of the respective Jurisdictions of the Courts in 
those Counties, has proved a source of Continual Vexation and Controversy” 
among the Inhabitants. 
