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Doc No. 18.
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\SSACHUSETrs LEGISLATURE-NORTH EASTERN BOUN-
DARY.
itESOiA'F.S
Of
THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS,
Concerning the North Eastern Bo^indary.
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.Tune 21, 1S41.
Referred to the Conimillee on Foreign Affairs
« / w ....nmmoushj. If tiie Senate concur, that the right of the Uni-
/^ttt^d tCs^^^^^^^ o Mai.ic, to require of Great Britain the hteral
''^ frodtate /xoaiH^^^^^^ terms of the second anicle of the treaty of
^'f:P^Z^^'^^^^^^ o^^o.e.^..n half a
Lntuf^, unh^^alS hy the passage of time or .by the interposmou of mul-
''^I'itiTiZmimoushj, If the Senate concur, that, ahhongh there is no
^ ,n t XnTa. / mrnedia collision between the two nations on
''''"' nto^the com o;ei-sv respecting the said boundary, it is nevertheless
'''° invMcs Iv 'o be desired that a speedy and effectual termination be put
rf rffeieniVwhich mi.ht even, by a remote possibility, produce conse-
^^'^" W \Sn;!^.:ir^ '- ^-^e concur, that the late Re,K>rt made
. ^^^eZ^To OeBX Britain, by their commissioners of survey,
^J Js^eare t^^^^^ Mudge, though not to be regarded as having
Messrs. l^eatnersi ^ s^ ^ Government, is calculated to produce, in
yet ^^^^'7^^ the s^nc^^^^^^^^^ .^ ^^ examined, a state of the public
"'•::/ Klv imfaSlo to that conciliatory temper, and to that niivual
""nnfide^^e hi e good intentions of each other, without which U is hope-
S;:^S;ect a sa^is^ctory result - -;:^- ^l^:^ ^ ^^nd the
, ^?^r^:^SS^: • Jil tiS" ^i:.L., not the less deter-
^'° 1 h.r use i is temperate, in maintaining the rights of Maine. And
nnucd b^^^^""^^^;' if.L 4neat our often recorded response to her demand,
that we "o^;;,f ;^,^^^,,'3^^^^^^^^^^ 'on, withheld should be speedily done
'^ w S tha wh 1 we xtend to her our sympathy for her past wrongs
we agTfn assu,; he^ of our unshaken resolution to sustain the territorial
"^^'^l^a^^^^^ ^^''^'^' Senate concur, that his Excellency the
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Governor be requested to transaiit u copy of these resolves, nnd the accom-
panying report, to the Executive of the United States, and of the several
States, and to each of the Senators and Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives from Massachusetts in the Congress of the United States.
House of Repkesentativfs, March 11, 1841.
Passed : GEORGE ASIIMUN, Speaker.
In Senate, March 12, 1S41.
Passed: DANIEL P. KING, President.
March 13, 1841— Approved : JOHN DAVIS.
A true copy, attest, JOHN P. BIGELOW,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.