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against the proceedings of the state. Their re- 

 solves were in this style : 



*' By the United States in Congress assem- 

 bled, December 5, 1782. Whereas it appe-is 

 to Congress by authentic documents, that the 

 people iiihabitirig the district of country, on the 

 west side of Connecticut river, commonly cal- 

 led the New Hampshire grants, and claiming to 

 be an independent state, in contempt of the au-. 

 thority of Congress, and in direct violation of 

 their resolutions of the 24th of September, 1779,* 

 and of the second of June, 1780, did, in the 

 month of September last, proceed to exercise 

 jurisdiction over the persons and properties of 

 sundry inhabitants of the said district, professing 

 themselves to be the subjects of, and to owe al- 

 legiance to the state of New York ; by means 

 whereof divers of them have been condemned 

 to banishment, not to return on pain of death 

 and confiscation of estate, and others have been 

 fined in large sums, and otherwise deprived of 

 property. Therefore, Resolved, That the said 

 acts and proceedings of the said peo|:)le, being^ 

 highly derogatory to the authority of the United 

 States, and dangerous to the confederacy, re- 

 quire the immediate and decided interposition of 

 Congress, for the protection and relief of such 

 as have suffered by them, and for preserving 

 peace in the said district, until a decision shall 

 be had of the controversy relative to the juris- 

 diction of the same. 



" That the people inhabiting the said dis-* 

 trict claiming to be independent, be, and they 

 are hereby required without delay to make full 

 and ample restitution to Timothy Church, 



