Report of the Joint Committee Upon the Boundary Line Between the States of Rhode-Island and Massachusetts: Made to the Legislature of Rhode-Island, January Session, A. D. 1849 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Report of the Joint Committee Upon the Boundary Line Between the States of Rhode-Island and Massachusetts: Made to the Legislature of Rhode-Island, January Session, A. D. 1849

The court was held under this commission in April, The claim of Massachusetts was presented and read to the court, as was also the claim of rhode-island, by the agents of the litigating parties. The hearing continued until the 30th of June, 1741, when the court rendered their judgment. In the judgment then rendered the commissioners say, that the determination of the boundaries of the colonies of Rhode Island and New Plymouth by the king's commissioners in the year 1664, appears to have been only a temporary order for preserving the peace on the borders of both colonies, without determining the rights of either. And they then decide that Upon the whole, nothing appears whereby the colony of rhode-island and Providence Plantations can be barred or hin dered from extending their jurisdiction eastward towards the province of Massachusetts Bay, according to the true intent and meaning of their charter. But alledging that some dis pute had arisen as to the true construction and meaning there of, the court proceed to define the boundaries of the territory, by them decided to be within the jurisdiction of Rhode - Island.

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