HISTORY OF VERMONT. 22f 



ycr any and every district of territory, without 

 said boundary lines. That authentic copies of 

 this resolution be forthwith officially transmitted 

 to Congress, and to the states of New Hamp=. 

 shire, and New York respectively.'^ 



Thus was dissolved an union which had 

 been constantly acquiring numbers, extent, pop- 

 ularity, and power, from its first formation : 

 Which, it was generally believed had prevented 

 the division of Vermont, by New Hampshire and 

 New York ; and which if it had been continued, 

 would probably have extended much further into 

 those states. It was not without *i struggle, that 

 the measure could be effected ; and it was not 

 without resentment, that the members from the 

 towns in New Hampshire and New York, found 

 themselves excluded from a seat or a vote in 

 the assembly, with which they had been con- 

 nected by articles of union and confederation, 

 which they supposed would have been perpetual. 



Having thus fully complied with the re- 

 solves of Congress, the assembly concluded that 

 all difficulties relating to their admission into 

 the confederation of the states, were removed.. 

 They proceeded* to choose four agents and 

 delegates, to represent the state of Vermont in 

 Congress ; and requested the governor to com- 

 mission them with plenary powers, to negociate 

 the admission of Vermont, into the confedera- 

 tion of the United States ; and when the state 

 was admitted, two of the agents were empower- 

 ed to take their seats, and represent Vermont 

 in Congress. The agents were accordingly 

 ^commissioned, " to negociate and complete on 



• February aS. 



