To all who shall see these presents, We Samuel Holten and Rufus King the under written Delegates for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Congress of the United States of America send Greeting:
Whereas the General Court of Massachusetts on the thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four passed an Act in titled "An Act empowering the Delegates of this Commonwealth in the United States in Congress assembled to relinquish to the United States certain lands the property of this Commonwealth,"23 a in the words following,