394 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85.

P. R. O.

Colonial
Entry Book.

Baltemore and M^r Penn as also to His Royal Highness of New
Castle which his Lord^p is desired to consider of and to report
his opinion to the next Committee when the Agents of the
Lord Baltemore and M^r Penn are to attend and in the mean
time that application be made to His Royal Highness that he
would please not to pass any conveyance to M^r Penn of those
parts until the bounds between Lord Baltemore and him be
settled.
It is also agreed by the Committee that letters be written to
the Lord Baltemore and M^r Penn advising them to come to a
fair and speedy composure of those matters in dispute between
them.

p. 144

Friday 27^th April 1683.

Their Lordships being acquainted that an Agent from the
Lord Baltemore attended without concerning the Boundaries
in difference between M^r Penn & his Lordship It is ordered
that the said Agent be told that if he has any matter of com-
plaint he may represent the same by petition to His Majesty in
Council

P. R. O.
Colonial
Papers.

Maryland ss.
Wee whose names are underwritten being desired by the
Right Honourable the Lord Baltemore to take by Observation
the true lattitude of Palmers Island Situate in the mouth of
Susquehanoe River at the head of the Bay of Chesapeak in the
Province aforesaid doe hereby declare that on the twenty eight
day of february last past wee accordingly did Take an obser-
vation on the Said Isle with a Sextant of about tenn foote
Semi-diamiter and (to the best of our Art and skill) doe find it
to lye in the Lattitude of Thirty nine degrees and forty foure
minuts of Northern Lattitude as Witness our hands this Second
day of March Annoq Domini 1682/3.
James Conaway
True Coppy Alex³ Dennett
C Baltemore. Rob^t Jones.
R 11 May 83.

[15 May 1683]
By the Lord Proprietary
C. Baltemore. A
Proclamation

Foreasmuch as the taking up of land by right within this our
Province of Maryland hath proved not only growing & burthen-
some to the Inhabitants of this our said Province as well for
want of such rights upon their occasions as for paying for the
same extravagant and extortious Rates when to be procured
but also very injurious & prejudiciall to our Self by undue and