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especially is that interest at the present time increased in consequence of the claim asserted by a foreign power to a large portion of the territory considered by use, as justly falling within our jurisdiction of the situation [?] of that claim and the progress made towards its adjustment I have received no information of a public nature, other than what has been heretofore communicated to former Legislatures. It is believed to be still under negotiation and entrusted to the care of those who will conduct it with ability and with due regard to the interest of this State. It is known that the American and British Commissioners under the fifth article of the Treaty of Ghent have differed as to the extent of the line forming our eastern boundary running north from the source of the Saint Croix by more than one hundred miles, embracing in its consequences a tract of country