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ward Moseley and John Lawson. The Carolina commissioners to be appoint- 
ed being strictly required to finish their survey, and to make a return 
thereof in conjunction with the Virginia commissioners, within six months, 
to be computed from tl^e time, that due notice shall be given by your majes- 
ty’s lieutenant governdr of Virginia to the governor or commander in chief 
of Carolina, of the time and place, which your majesty’s said lieutenant 
governor shall appoint for the first meeting of the commissioners on one 
part and the other. In order whereunto we humbly offer, that directions be 
sent to the said lieutenant governor, to give such notice accordingly ; and 
if after notice so given, the Carolina commissioners shall refuse or neglect 
to join with those on the part of Virginia, in making such survey, as likewise 
a return thereof within the time before mentioned ; that then and in such 
case the commissioners on the part of Virginia be directed to draw up an 
account of the proper observations and survey which they shall have made 
for ascertaining the bounds between Virginia and Carolina, and to deliver 
the same in writing under their hands and seals to the lieutenant governor 
and council of Virginia, to the end the same may be laid before your majesty, 
for your majesty’s final determination therein, within, with regard to the 
settling of those boundaries ; the lords proprietors having, by an instrument 
under their hands, submitted the same to your majesty’s royal determination, 
which instrument, dated in March, 1708, is lying in this ofiBce. 
And lastly, we humbly propose, that your majesty’s further pleasure be 
signified to the said lords proprietors, and in like manner to the lieutenant 
governor of Virginia, that no grants be passed by eitheri of those govern- 
ments of any of the lands lying within the controverted bounds, until such 
bounds shall be ascertained and settled as aforesaid, whereby it may appear 
whether those lands do of right belong to your majesty, or to the lords pro- 
prietors of Carolina. 
Her majesty in council, approving of the said representation, is pleased to 
order, as it is hereby ordered, that the right honourable the lords commis- 
sioners for trade and plantations do signify her majesty’s pleasure herein to 
her majesty’s lieutenant governor or commander in chief of Virginia for 
the time being, and to all persons to whom it may belong, as is proposed 
by their lordships in the said representation, and the right honourable the 
lords proprietors of Carolina are to do what on their part does appertain. 
Edward Southwell. 
Proposals for determining the Controversy relating to the hounds between the 
governments of Virginia and North Carolina^ most humbly offered for his 
Majesty's royal approbation^ and for the consent of the right honourable the 
^ Lords Proprietors of Carolina. 
Forasmuch as the dispute between the said two governments about their 
true limits continues still, notwithstanding the several meetings of the com- 
missioners, and all the proceedings of many years past, in order to adjust 
that affair, and seeing no speedy determination is likely to ensue, unless 
some medium be found out, in which both parties may incline to acquiesce, 
wherefore both the underwritten governors having met, and considered the 
prejudice both to the king and the lords proprietors’ interest, by the con- 
tinuance of this contest, and truly endeavouring a decision, which they 
judge comes nearest the intention of royal charter granted to the lords 
proprietors, do, with the advice and consent of their respective councils, pro- 
pose as follows. 
