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That from the mouth of Coratuck river or inlet, and setting the compass 

 on the north shore, thereof a due west line be run and fairly marked, and 

 if it happen to cut Chowan river, between the mouths of Nottoway river 

 and Wicocon creek, then shall the same direct course be continued towards 

 the mountains, and be ever deemed the sole dividing line between Virginia 

 and Carolina. 



That if the said west line cuts Chowan river to the southward of Wicocon 

 creek, then from point of intersection the bounds shall be allowed to continue 

 up the middle of the said Chowan river to the middle of the entrance into 

 the said Wicocon creek, and from thence a due west line shall divide the 

 said two governments. 



That if a due west line shall be found to pass through islands or to cut out 

 small slips of land, which might much more conveniently be included in one 

 province or the other by natural water bounds, in such cases the persons 

 appointed for running the line shall have power to settle natural bounds, 

 provided the commissioners of both sides agree thereto, and that all such 

 variations from the west line, be particularly noted in the maps or plats, 

 which they shall return, to be put upon the records of both governments, 

 all which is humbly submitted by 



Charles Eden. 

 A. Spotswood. 



Order of the King and Council upon the foregoing proposals, at the' Court of 

 St. James, the 26th day of March, 1729. Present, the King's most excel- 

 lent majesty in Council. 



Whereas it has been represented to his majesty at the board, that for ad- 

 justing the disputes, which have subsisted for many years past, between the 

 colonies of Virginia and North Carolina, concerning their true boundaries, 

 the late governors of the said colonies did some time since agree upon cer- 

 tain proposals for -regulating the said boundaries for the future, to which pro- 

 posals the lords proprietors of Carolina have given their assent ; and where- 

 as the said proposals were this day presented to his majesty as proper for his 

 royal approbation, 



His majesty is thereupon pleased, with the advice of his privy council, to 

 approve of the said proposals, a copy whereof is hereunto annexed, and to 

 order, as it is hereby ordered, that the governor or commander in chief of the 

 colony of Virginia, do settle the said boundaries, in conjunction with the 

 governor of North Carolina, agreeably to the said proposals. 



Edward Southwell. 



The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia's Commissionin obedience to his Majesty's 



Order. 



George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and 

 Ireland king, defender of the faith, to our trusty and well beloved William 

 Byrd, Richard Fitz-william, and William Dandridge, Esqrs., members of our 

 council of the colony and dominion of Virginia, greeting : Whereas our 

 late royal father of blessed memory was graciously pleased, by order in his 

 privy council, bearing date the 28th day of March 1727, to approve of cer- 

 tain proposals agreed upon by Alexander Spotswood, Esq. late lieutenant 

 governor of Virginia, on the one part, and Charles Eden, Esq. late governor 



