Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 509

                  October the 3d 1696.      Lib. H. D.

      The Councill again Sate and were prsent as Yesterday Whi;ehail

    except Esqr ifrisby.

             Whereas upon perusall of the Severall County

    county Court Leavys it is thereby found that Severall per-

    Courts abt sons have taken upon them to demand and actually

    the publick                                . d

    allowances. Receive Tobacco Leavyed by the Justices of the s

           County Count, and the sd Justices to make allow- p.

    ances to persons for sundry things contrary to Law, it is

    therefore considered by this Board and Ordered that no

    allowances (for the future) be made in the publick Leavys

    of the Counties where the Law does not expressly direct the

    same, unless it be for fixing the publick [Arms] and for the

    necessary charge of conveying them &ca or some allowancc

    given towards maintenance of their poor &cca or to the persons

    or Officers tending upon the sd Courts according to fformer Whitehall

    Custome, but that the latter be in no respect allow'd unless the

    ffixing the publick Arms &cca as aforesd be taken care off;

    hereby Commanding the Sherrifis to publish this Ordr at their

    Severali County Counts.

      Produced and Read a certain RepresentacOn or complaint

    of the Bal. County Burgesses unto the house of Assembly

    (which was from thence referred unto his ExncY) relating to the

    Delaware Indians molesting their parts by hunting &cca setting

    forth that they were Aliens and therefore under no Articles of

    peace with this Governmt the Burgesses were sent for and

    asked their Opinion what Remedy they thought most suitable Whitehall

    in this behalfe, who after having given their Opinions and

    the sd matter being maturely Debated & Consulted it was

    Resolved and Ordered that a Copy of the sd paper be sent to

    the honrble William Markham Esq Lt Governr of Pensilvania,

    desireing him to cause the same to be communicated to the sd

    Indians and to know of them what they have to say in Excuse

    of what is Complain'd agt them; and Mr Boothby Signifying

    that he is shortly designed for Pensiivania is Ordered to Carry

    the Same, & to discourse Governr Markham abt it; the sd Com

    plaint followes in these words, Vizt

    A Complaint Mr Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Bun

    abt Indians

    sent to Govr gesses.     -

    Markham &cca Complaint having been made to Us the Repre

           sentatives for the County of Baltemore by the

    inhabitants thereof that the Delaware Indians a people as well Whitehall

    Aliens to Us in point of Trade as for that they were never yet

    Allied to Us by any League of ffriendship or Treaty Entered