Your committee have gone through this tedious investigation with all the deliberation, exactness, and candor which our time, means, and feelings would allow. Our animadversions may in some instances have been strong, and even severe, but we think we have expressed the sentiments and feelings of the people of Maine, suffering under protracted injuries. This State should take a firm, deliberate, and dignified stand, and one which it will not retract. While it awards to the General Government all its legitimate powers, it will not be forgetful of its own. We call upon the President and Congress. We invoke that aid and sympathy of our sister States which Maine has always accorded to them. We ask, nay we demand, in the name of justice, HOW LONG we are to be thus trampled down by a foreign people? And we trust we shall meet a cordial and patriotic response in the heart of every republican of the Union. Your committee therefore submit the following resolutions: STATE OF MAINE. RESOLVES relative to the northeastern boundary. _Resolved_, That we view with much solicitude the British usurpations and encroachments on the northeastern part of the territory of this State. _Resolved_, That pretensions so groundless and extravagant indicate a spirit of hostility which we had no reason to expect from a nation with whom we are at peace. _Resolved_, That vigilance, resolution, firmness, and union on the part of this State are necessary in this state of the controversy. _Resolved_, That the governor be authorized and requested to call on the President of the United States to cause the northeastern boundary of this State to be explored and surveyed and monuments erected according to the _treaty_ of 1783. _Resolved_, That the cooperation of Massachusetts be requested. _Resolved_, That our Senators in Congress be _instructed_ and our Representatives _requested_ to endeavor to obtain a _speedy_ adjustment of the controversy. _Resolved_, That copies of this report and resolution be transmitted to the governor of Massachusetts, the President of the United States, to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and other Senators in Congress, and the governors of the several States. [Passed house March 24, 1837; passed Senate and approved March 25, 1837.] STATE OF MAINE, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, _Augusta, June 27, 1837_. His Excellency MARTIN VAN BUREN, _President of the United States_. SIR: I lose no time in communicating to Your Excellency a copy of a letter from Sir John Harvey, lieutenant-governor of the Province of New Brunswick, and also of a letter from J.A. Maclauchlan to Sir John Harvey, in relation to the arrest and imprisonment of Ebenezer S. Greely. I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your obedient servant, ROBERT P. DUNLAP. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, _Frederickton, New Brunswick, June 12, 1837_ His Excellency the GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.