130 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1702.

             Lib. x. Ordered that Captain Bostock bring down from Turkey

                  Point her Majestys Advice Boat Eagle to receive the further

                  Commands of this Government

                   Ordered that the several Vestrys of the several Parishes of

                  this Province send their Accots to the Clerk of the Council

                  Especially South River Parish & St Pauls in Baltimore County

                           October the 12th 1702

                                  Present

                    The honble Tho Tench Esqr President

                            Robert Smith Esqr Lt Colo Wm Holland

            the honble Colo Jno Hammond            &

                            Colo Edward Lloyd Mr James Sanders

                   i'he petition of John Hill and John Stokely of Sussex

                  County in Pennsylvania being read & the reasons & prayer

                  therein set forth being well considered this Board do advise

                  & desire the Provincial Court not to proceed to Judgment

                  in the said Cause until the dividing Line is run between

                  this Provs & Pennsylvania so that it may be ascertained in

                  which Province the Land lieth the Lands in Question being

                  taken up by several Rights

                   Came Sr Thomas Lawrence Secry & Complained that Mr

                  Charles Carrol had given him an account of Eighty two

                  Patents prepared this present year but had not sent them

                  into his Office to be recorded & was gone for England

                  that he had wrote to Colo Darnal about the said Patents

                  who had returned for answer that he knew nothing of them

                  but when they were prepared & sealed he would send them

                  in as Usual

             p. 296 Mr James Carrol Attorney in fact to Mr Cha Carrol being

                  Sent for & asked for the said pattents says he is Sensible

                  they are in Mr Carrols House but that they are not prepared

                  to be sent to the Secrys Office being neither signed nor

                  Sealed but that so soon as ready will be sent to the said

                  Office

                   Ordered that Collo Darnal have notice to prepare the said

                  Pattents with all Convenient Speed & send them to the

                  Secrys Office to be recorded according to his late Majestys

                  Order in Council.

                   The honourable President acquaints the Board that upon

                  the death of Mr Wm Wyvill riding Surveyor at the head of

                  the Bay he had sent a Commission to Mr William Dyer but

                  being since that acquainted that Edwd Randolph Esqr Sur

                  veyor General was arrived in Virginia & not knowing how

                  far his Commission might extend had called it in & prays