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Excerpt from Final Report of the Virginia Commissioners: On the Maryland and Virginia Boundary to the Governor of Virginia The undersigned, commissioners on the part of Virginia, submit their final report upon the boundaries between the states of Maryland and Virginia. They now condense the propositions which they have maintained, referring to their "statement" heretofore made for the authorities, and proofs and arguments which support them set forth the tenders of compromise which they have made, and the disagreement with the commissioners on the part of Maryland, which has resulted from their acceptance of no compromise, and their extreme claim of limits, which could not be acceded to by commissioners on the part of Virginia. Proposition I. By the charter of James I. dated April 10th, 1606, all the territory claimed by Great Britain in North America, then called Virginia, lying between 34 and 45 N. L., was granted to two companies, the London and Plymouth companies. The former was authorized to plant a colony between 34 and 41 N. L.; and the latter was authorized to plant one between 38 and 45 N. L.; but the last planted should not he within one hundred miles of the other first established. The London company made its first settlement the 13th day of May, A. D. 1607; and, before the Plymouth company made any settlement or planted a colony, the second charter was granted in May, 1609. This last charter granted to the London company two hundred miles north and two hundred miles south, from Point or Cape comfort, and from the Atlantic ocean east to the Pacific ocean west. This belt of territory was from ocean to ocean in length, and 400 miles wide, from 34 to 40 N. latitude. 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 work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."