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you do not, by colour of this our commission, take upon you or determine 

 any private man's property, in or to tlie lands which shall by the said 

 dividing line be included within the limits of Virginia, nor of any other mat- 

 ter or thing that doth not 1 elate immediately to the adjusting, settling, and 

 final determination of the boundary aforesaid, conformable to the proposals 

 hereinbefore mentioned, and not otherwise. In witness whereof we have 

 caused these presents to be made. Witness our trusty and well beloved 

 William Gooch, Esq. our lieutenant governor and commander in chief of our 

 colony and dominion of Virginia, under the seal of our said colony, at 

 Williamsburg, the 14th day of December, 1727, in the first year of our 

 reign. William Goocii. 



The Govemor of North Caroliiia's Commission in obedience to his Majesty's 



, Order. 



Sir Richard Everard, baronet, governor, captain general, admiral, and 

 commander in chief of the said province : To Christopher Gale, Esq. chief 

 justice, John Lovick, Esq., secretary,.Edward Moseley, Esq., surveyor general 

 and William Little, Esq., attorney general, greeting : Whereas many disputes 

 and differences have formerly been between the inhabitants of this province 

 and those of his majesty's colony of Virginia, concerning the boundaries and 

 limits between the said two governments, which having been duly considered 

 by Charles Eden, Esq., late governor of this province, and Alexander Spots- 

 wood, Esq., late governor of Virginia, they agreed to certain proposals for de- 

 termining the said controversy, and humbly offered the same for his majesty's 

 royal approbation, and the consent of the true and absolute lords pro- 

 prietors of Carolina. And his majesty having been pleased to signify his" 

 royal approbation of those proposals (consented unto by the true and abso- 

 lute lords proprietors of Carolina) and given directions for adjusting and 

 settling the boundaries as near as may be to the said proposals : 



I, therefore, reposing especial trust and cx)nfidence in you, the said Christo- 

 pher Gale, John Lovick, Edward Moseley and William Little, to be commis- 

 sioners, on the part of the true and absolute lords propinetors, and that you 

 in conjunction with such comm.issioners as shall be nominated for Virginia, 

 use your utmost endeavours, and take all necessary care in adjusting and 

 settling the said boundaries, by drawing such a distinct line or lines of divi- 

 sion between the said two provinces, as near as reasonable you can to the 

 proposals made by the two former governors, and the instructions herewith 

 given you. Given at the council chamber in Edenton, under my hand, and 

 the seal of the colony, the 21st day of February, anno Domini 1727, and in 

 the first year of the I'eign of our sovereign lord, king George the Second. 



Richard Everard. 



The Protest of the Carolina Commissioners, against our proceeding on the 



Line without them. 



We- the underwritten commissioners for the government of North Caro- 

 lina, in conjunction with the commissioners on the part of Virginia, having 

 run the line for the division of the two colonies from Coratuck inlet, to the 

 south branch of Roanoke river ; being in the whole about one hundred and 

 seventy miles, and near fifty miles without the inhabitants, being of opinion 

 we had run the line as far as would be requisite for a long time, judged the 



