206 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98.

            Lib. H. D. Ordered that the Sherriffs of the Province take Care to

                  Collect what Tobo is due by Act of Assembly from publick

                  Officers, both as to the Arrears last year, and what is due

                  from them this year, wherein they are in no wise to ffaile at

                  their perrill; and further that they Return an Accot or list of

                  what Romish Priests and Lay Brothers are Resident within

               p. 548 their respective Counties and what Churches Chappells or

                  other places of worship they have what manner of buildings

                  they are: and in what places Scituated and that they Return

                  also a like Accot about the Quakers or other Dissenters from

                  the Church of England and of their places of worship &ca by

                  the ffirst day of the next Provll Court.

                    His Exncy is pleas'd to Represent that Peter Jenings Esq

                  Collr of Petuxon District lately Mett him upon the Road

                  going to Charles County who asked him leave to go to

                  Pensilvania and see that place, to which his Exncy is pleased

                  to Say, that he neither gave him leave nor Ordered him to

                  Stay, but left him to his own discretion.

                         [Pennsylvania Boundary.]

              Att the Courtt att Whitehall 13th November 1685

                                  prsent

                 The Kings most Excellent Maty in Councill

                    The following Reporte from the Right Honble the Lords of

                  the Committee for Trade and forreigne Plantations being this

                  day read att the Board

                  Memorandum

                    The Lords of the Comittee for Trade and plantations hav

                  ing pursuant to his late Matys order in Councill of the 31st of

                  May 1683. Examined the Matters in differences between the

                  Lord Baltemore & William Penn Esqr in behalfe of this prsent

                  Maty Concerning a Tract of Land in America Comonly Called

                  Dellaware theire Ldps find that the Land Intended to be

                  granted by the Ld Baltemores Pattent was only Land

                  and Inhabited with Savages And that this Tract of Land now

                  in dispute was Inhabitated and planted by Christians att and

                  before the date of the Lord Baltemors Pattent as it hath been

                  ever Since to this time and Continued as a distinct Colony

               p. 237 from that of Maryland so that theire Ldshipps humbly offer

                  theire Opinion that for avoyding further differences the Tract

                  of Land lying between the River and Bay of Delleware and

                  the Eastern Sea on the One side and Chesapeak Bay on the

                  other be divided into two Equall parts by a Line from the

                  Latitude of Cape Hinlopen to the 40th Degree of Northerne