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delivered to his Excellency that each Party may at all times
apply thereunto to know the Terms and be sensible of any
breach if such shall happen to be made on either Side
They approve of the same have read unto them the Articles
which they also approve of and consent unto they are both
mutually signed sealed and deliver'd in manner aforesaid and
they have presented unto them six Matchcoats and six pair
Fine Hose

Liber K.

Complaint made by one of the great men Indians that the
English daily encroach upon their Land in particular Captain
Whittington and one Iohn Gillam they desire to have their
Lands assigned them duly laid out and ascertained they
complain also that almost every fall the English pull down
their Fences and put in their Stocks of Cattle &c^a
It is answered them that his Excellency will duly enquire
into all their Grievances of this nature and take care to do
them all right and Iustice therein that their Land shall be laid
out and ascertained to them that they for the future be at
peace and quiet and that they shall have no more trouble:
wherewith they declare themselves Content
S^r Thomas Lawrence again moves the Board for their order
to M^r William Taylard and Iohn LLewellin the one as Clerk
of the Provinciall Court, the other as Clerk of the Land Office
and Publick Notary may deliver up to him the Records under
their charge and custody—
He is advised first to qualify himself as Secretary to receive
them by giving sufficient Security for the due Execution of
his Office as other the Secretarys of other their Majestys
Plantations are obliged to and do Perform, to which he
answers that whatever the Secretarys of this Province have
been usually obliged to he is ready and willing to Comply with
It was further alledged and averred to him that under the
former Government there were generally employed and pre-
ferred to that Office his Lordships own relations, and the pro-
ceedings then altogether arbitrary, and that what was then
done in such cases was for the most part Private and under-
hand
He then desires to know what security it is that is required
of him Ans^r Such as in the others of their Majestys Planta-
tions—whereupon were produced and ordered to be read the
Laws of Iamaica whereby the Secretary there is obliged to give
Bond with sufficient Security in the sum of four thousand
Pounds Sterl for his due Performance &c^a
He humbly desires his Excellency to enquire into what hath
been the Custom and constant Practice o.f this Province, and

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from thence Compute what may be required of him, and if he
must be obligd to give such security he desires and thinks it

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