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THE HISTORY OF 
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 uponthe 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, 
Ilis 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 
