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Show -47- APPENDIX A THE LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF INTERCOLONIAL AND INTERSTATE AGREEMENTS* I. AGREEMENTS OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD (1) Connecticut and New Netherlands Boundary Agreement of 1656 The Treaty of Hartford, concluded between the United Colonies and New Netherlands on September 19, 1650, dealt in part with the boundary between the two Colonies.1 These provisions were confirmed on the part of New Ne- therlands by the States General of the United Netherlands on January 22, 1656.2 (2) Rhode Island and Connecticut Boundary Agreement of "1663* On April 7# 1663* an agreement to abide by the decision of arbitra- tors, to whom both parties had submitted the dispute, was signed by the agents of Connecticut and Rhode Island.3 The claim was later resisted by Connecticut on the ground that Governor Winthrop, its agent, had entered into the agreement without authority from its General Court•3a (3) New York and Connecticut Boundary Agreement of 1664* An agreement dealing with the respective claims of New York and Conn- ecticut to Long Island was concluded on November 30, l664.4 A supplemental *This Appendix aims to give an inventory of agreements undertaken by the Colonies and the Thirteen States prior to the Constitution, and of com- pacts concluded or proposed under the Constitution, covering a period from I656 to the prospective Columbia River Compact, consented to by Congress on Mar. h» 1925» A summary of the legislative, judicial and administrative history of these agreements has been based on investigation of the material in the Harvard Law School and Widener Libraries* Undoubtedly mistakes have crept in, and omissions will be revealed* Partly, of course, inaccuracies and errors are unavoidable as long as our Colonial Records remain so de- plorably inaccessible. In any event, we hope that the defects of this summary will stimulate further study. We have been greatly aided in the collection of recent documents, as yet unavailable in the libraries, by the ready help of J» H. Cohen, Counsel for the Port of New York Authority, II. L. Cooke, Director of the Pennsylvania Giant Power Survey, and E» E« Hunt, of Secretary Hoover's Staff* Laws of New Netherlands, 1638-167U* 215* U55» 2lbid. 38, 2r» I. Co. Rec, 5I8. A collection of documents bearing on this agree- ment is contained in Conn. Col. Reo. 526-5J4I. See also Adams, Founding of New England, I665-I667 (1921) 320-321. 3aconn. Col. Rec. I665-I667, 527. ^Report of the Regents of the University on the Boundaries of New Yoark 1873* 2Lj.. See 3 Osgood, American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (19^7! 175-177; Dickinson, American Colonial Government (1912) 288-290* |
