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By tacit consent, the Genera] Court made Shirley an annual allow- ance of 1, 000 sterling for salary. In 1737, a controversy, which had long subsisted between the two colo nies of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, was heard by commissioners for that purpose ap- pointed by the crown. Various at- tempts had been made to settle this dispute, and it had been often recom- mended by the crown to the Assem- blies of the two provinces to agree upon arbitrators from neighboring * Hildreth's " Hitlory... of the United States, " vol ii. , p. 380. 1737 CH. II. ] EXPEDITION AGAINST LOUISBURG. governments, and to pass acts which should bind each province to be subject to their determinations; but the sug- gestion had not been acted upon. This year, however, commissioners were ap- pointed, with Philip Livingston, of New York, as president, to settle the dispute. Greatly to the mortification of Massa- chusetts, it was decided against her, and the result was, 'New Hampshire gained several hundred thousand acres more than she had ever claimed.
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