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that all claims, not in the instructions mentioned, may be ceded, ex- 

 changed, or retained, as the circumstances of the negotiations may 

 require. (Agreed.) 



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1779. March 7. ... Congress was resolved into a Committee of 

 the Whole, and after some time, the President resumed the chair and 

 Mr. F[rancis] Lfightfoot] Lee reported, that the committee have had 

 under consideration the report of the committee on the communica- 

 tions of the Minister of France and made some farther progress, but 

 not having come to a conclusion desire leave to sit again. 



AMENDMENT A. 



[Sic.] That the thirteen United States are bounded: North by a 

 line drawn from the northwest angle of the boundary of Nova Scotia 

 along the high lands, which divide the rivers that empty themselves 

 into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic, to 

 Connecticut River; thence down that river to the 45th degree of 

 North Latitude; thence in that latitude to the River St. Lawrence; 

 thence to the south end of the lake Nipissing and thence to the source 

 of the Mississippi. West, by a line drawn along the middle of the 

 River Mississippi from its source to that part of the said river which 

 lies in latitude thirty one Degrees north from the Equator: South, 

 by a line from the river Miss[iss]ippi in the beginning of the 31 

 degree of north latitude to the junction of the Catahouche and Flint 

 rivers, thence by a line to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence 

 by a line along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic Ocean. 



Amendment to the first proposition. 



AGREED TO IN COMMITTEE MARCH 1. 



That the thirteen United States are bounded. EAST by the Atlantic 

 ocean. NORTH by a line drawn from the north west angle of the 

 boundary of Nova Scotia along the high lands, which divide the 

 rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those 

 which fall into the Atlantic, to Connecticut river, and then down that 

 River to the 45th degree north Latitude; thence in that latitude to 

 the River St. Lawrence ; thence to the south end of the Lake Nepis- 

 sing, and thence to the source of the Mississippi. WEST, by a line 

 drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to 

 the 31st degree of North Latitude. SOUTH by a line drawn from the 

 river Mississippi in the 31st-degree of north latitude to the junction of 

 the Catahouche and Flint Rivers, thence by a line to the head of St. 

 Mary's river, and thence by a line along the middle of St. Mary's 

 River to the Atlantic Ocean. 



2d page, 6 line; dele to the Mississippi and insert to the Western 

 boundary of the United States. Transpose the words (as contended 

 for by Great Britain) and insert them immediately after Nipissing. 



A. By a line drawn thence due East to the River Apalachicola or Catahouche, 

 thence to the junction thereof with the Fliut River, thence in a straight line to 

 the Head of 



