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Administrative History

Laws of 1783, Chapter 28 (Sixth Session), as amended by Laws of 1784, Chapter 2 (Eighth Session), appointed three commissioners from New York to meet with Massachusetts commissioners to run the boundary line agreed to on May 18, 1773. Because the commissioners could not agree on how to run the boundary line, New York passed a law of 1784 (Chapter 4, Eighth Session) appointing agents to appear before the U.S. Congress with Massachusetts agents to appoint "commissioners or judges to constitute a Federal court for hearing and determining the controversy..." Laws of 1785, Chapter 28 (Eighth Session), supplemented by Laws of 1786, Chapter 53 (Ninth Session) and Laws of 1787, Chapter 46 (Tenth Session) and renewed by Laws of 1787, Chapter 79 (Tenth Session), authorized Congress to appoint commissioners to run and mark the boundary, providing Massachusetts agreed to this.