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is not sufficiently resolved which it is to the greate disquiett
and disturbance of the Inhabitants there Seated; ffor redress
whereof, and in ord^r to settle the same to avoid any future
controversie or dispute, It is by this board considered and
Ordered that the Com^rs formerly appointed to lay out for the
Indians seated upon the said River of Nantecoke their Land
assigned them by his L^sp: (viz:) Coll William Stevens, Cap^t
Henry Smith, M^r ffrancis Jenckins, and Cap^t David Browne of
Sommersett County, Maj^r Thomas Taylor; M^r Bartholomew
Ennalls, and M^r Charles Hutchins of Dorchester County, or
any four or more of them (whereof the said Coll William
Stevens, and Maj^r Thomas Taylor to be alwaies One) be and
. they are hereby authorised appointed and Empowered to con-
sider and enquire into the p^rmisses; soe as to ascertaine the
said maine branch of Nantecoke River the bounds betweene
the s^d Two Counties, which they are required to certifie unto
this board by the first day of the next Provinciall Court for
further approbation and confirmation thereof, to be recorded
for the true bounds aforesaid, and as such to continue and
remaine to posterity. It is further Ordered that all and every
Survey or Surveys that have been formerly duely and legally
made for any the Inhabitants of this Province or others by any
or either of the Surveyo^rs of either the aforesaid Counties shall
be had held and Esteemed as firm good and valid to all intents
and purposes to the true owners or possesso^rs thereof, notwith-
standing the same may (for the reasons aforesaid) have been
surveyed by the Deputy Surveyo^r for the contrary County

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appointed. Dated at the Councill Chamber at the City of S^t
Maries the fourth day of October in the nineth yeare of the
Dominion of the R^t hon^ble Charles &c. Annoq Dmi. 1684:
Signed p ord^r
J Llewellin Cl Consil

Came Joshua Doyne high Sheriff of S^t Maries County and
presented to the board a Recognizance given by Henry Higgs
and John Hiland for the good behaviour and appeareance of
the said Higgs the first day of the next Prov^ll Court w^ch was
accepted of and ordered to be recorded as foll (viz:)

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