Governor's Message and Documents on the Subject of the Doings of the Arbiter With the Report of the Committee of the Legislature, in Relation to the Northeastern Boundary Classic Reprint

Committee on Northeastern Boundary

ISBN 10: 133170216X / ISBN 13: 9781331702160

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• Title: Governor's Message and Documents on the Subject of the Doings of the Arbiter With the Report of the Committee of the Legislature, in Relation to the Northeastern Boundary Classic Reprint
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133170216X
• ISBN 13: 9781331702160
• Binding: PAP
• Condition: New
• Weight: 141 grams

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Excerpt from Governor's Message and Documents on the Subject of the Doings of the Arbiter: With the Report of the Committee of the Legislature, in Relation to the Northeastern Boundary

The British agents and commissioners did always con cede, admit, and declare that the line running north from the source of the river St. Croix, crossed the river St. John to the highlands between the St. John and the river St. Lawrence, the boundary of the Province of Quebec, now Lower Canada. The British commissioners at the treaty of Ghent offered to purchase the north part of this State of the United States, but were refused. The British did not set up any claim to the Country until when they introduced a vague and uncertain one, one which they did not pretend to define, as that would have made its fallacy too palpable.

Therefore Resolved, That the territory bounded by a line running by the heads of the streams falling into the river S. Lawrence, and between them, and streams falling into the river St. John, or through other main channels into the sea, until such line intersects a line drawn due north from the source of the river St. Croix, is the terri tory of the State of Maine wherein she has constitutional right and authority to exercise sovereign power - and the Government of the United States have not any power given to them by the Constitution of the United States, to prohibit the exercise of such right, and it can only be prohibited by an assumption of power.

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Excerpt from Governor's Message and Documents on the Subject of the Doings of the Arbiter: With the Report of the Committee of the Legislature, in Relation to the Northeastern Boundary The joint Select Committee to whom so much of the Message of the Governor as related to the North Eastern Boundary was committed, have had the same under consideration and Report: Whereas, the boundaries between the State of Maine, and the British Provinces of Lower Canada and New Brunswick, are definitely described in the provisional treaty of peace of 1782, which by its provisions was incorporated into, and became a part of the definitive treaty of peace of 1783 - wherein the boundaries are set forth and described as follows, to wit: "From the North West angle of Nova Scotia, to wit, that angle which is formed by a line "drawn due north from the source of the St. Croix river to the highlands, along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the Northwesternmost head of Connecticut river, &c." And again, "East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence." And whereas - The treaty adopted the boundaries of the British Provinces respectively, which had been formed and accurately described by the government in a succession of acts for nearly twenty years before the aforesaid treaty - and have also, since said treaty been often described and recognised by other acts of the British government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor