Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 3-19, 1695. ²33

Ordered that the Gentⁿ of the Councill living nearest to the
s^d Indians go and discourse them and withall acquaint them
that they must be Obedient to their Empero^r and Articles of
peace and to give the Empero^r notice for to Warn his men
that they may be got together within this ffortnight or
three Weeks; his Ex^ncy being Designed to Come to them
himself in person; and further that the Gentlemen would in-
form themselves what objections the s^d Indians have ag^t their
Empero'.

Original
Journal.

Proposed that the Church at mount Calvert be fitted to serve
as well for a Court house as Church, and so in all other places
where the Same can conveniently be done, and that an Ord^r
of the house pass for the Same.
Proposed that Some Ord^r of the house pass to Effect the
Seating of the Indian Land lying betwixt Pomunky and
Mattawoman in Charles County Petition of Severall of the in-
habitants of the port of Annapolis read & Referred to the
Consideration of the house of Burgesses.
The aforegoing proposalls & Petitions were delivered to
Coll: W^m Peirce one of the members of the house, by the
Clerk of this Board in Ord^r to be communicated to the house
of Burgesses.
Produced and Read a rough draught of a Proclamation
touching persons indeed out of the Province; Ordered to be
Sent down to the house of Burgesses for their perusall.

Octob^r the 18^th 1695.

The Councill again Sate and were all p^rsent except Coll
Courts and M^r Brooks.
Brought from the house of Burgesses Severall Resolves
which were Read as follows Viz^t

By the house of Burgesses, October the 17^th 1695.

Resolved M^r Briscoes papers relating to the publick Reve-
nue be Entered upon the Journall of the house of Burgesses
and then delivered to M^r Sam" Watkins the present Nav^ll Offi-
cer of Petuxent District, who is to Collect the Same.
Resolved a bill be prepared for the naturalization of Michaell
Curtis.
Resolved Maj^r Edw^d Dorsey be allowed for defraying his
Expenses as a Commission^r in Chancery dureing his Sitting
in the s^d Court equall with the dayly allowance to the Burgesses
of Assembly.
Upon reading the Ord^r of Councill of the 17^th of August
1695 ab^t Seating the Indian Land; the consideration thereof

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