Whereas there was this Day read at the Board a Report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs dated the 9 th of this Instant,

upon considering a Report made by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, upon an Extract of a Letter from Sir Henry Moore Governor of New York to the Earl of Shelburne dated the 16 th of January

between that Province and Quebec By which Report been mutually agreed upon between Sir Henry Moore and the Commander it appears that it having last, relative to the settling the Boundary Line

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in Chief of the Province of Quebec, at a Meeting for that purpose appointed, that the Line of Division

between these Provinces should be fixed at the forty-fifth Degree of North Latitude, conformable to the Limits laid down in his Majesty's Proclamation of October 1763, and it having been ascertained

and determined by proper Observations where the said line would pass it is therefore proposed that these Proceedings above stated should be confirmed by His Majesty His Majesty taking the said Report into Consideration was pleased with the Advice of His privy Council, to approve thereof, and doth hereby confirm the said Proceedings above stated, and order that the said Line of Division be ;

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run out and continued as far as each Province respectively extends, Provided that nothing hereinbefore contained, shall extend to affect the Properties of his Majesty's new Subjects, having Possessions under proper Titles, on those parts of the Lands on the South side of this Line, the Dominion