As the war dragged on various peace proposals were made. One provided for a commission to try once more to settle the Carolina boundary. Spain again demanded that Georgia be evacuated, and rumors got abroad that this might come to pass. Frightened, Oglethorpe and other Trustees appealed to the Duke of Bedford. The fear was groundless, for the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle restored everything to the status quo ante helium. War being over, the Georgia regiment was now disbanded; but some sixty men were kept at the island posts, "as a sign of possession." By England the opposite mainland south of the Altamaha was treated as Neutral Ground.1 [Note 1 For peace movements in 1745, see Trevor MSS., 122-129. For the proposal of 1747, see Lord John Russell, Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford (three vols. London, 1842-1846), 1,288-330. For French insistence on the abrogation of the Asiento, see Russell, Correspondence of Bedford, I, 448, 451, 476, 477, 528-536. For the fear felt by the Trustees, see Ga. Col. Rec., I, 508-510. For the peace of 1748, see Chalmers, Collection of Treaties, vol. I; Russell, Correspondence of Bedford, I, 273-287, 391, 586-588.] Pending an adjustment it must be left unoccupied.