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       The Board thereupon taking the premises seriously into Lib. X.

     Consideration humbly offer it as their opinion that as the

     Boundaries of Maryland and Pennsylvania upon each other

     have from the first Settlement of the Latter appeared dispu

     table and yet such Amicable Measures have hitherto been

     Concerted between the Governments of both that the peace

     till very lately has been preserved with that good under

     standing which is requisite between Neighbours Subjects of

     the same Crown therefore it will without a very just Cause

     Given be inexcusable in the Agressors to make any Violation

     of the same

       That as our proprietor for Solid Reasons drawn from the

     Charters to both Provinces claimed to the Southward of Octe

     raroe and it had formerly always been understood by this

     Government that the Lord Baltimore made no claim to the

     Northward of that Creek or River of which better proofs may

     be given than some in Maryland are willing to admit of, those

     of this province were therefore of Opinion that to bound

     themselves by the same Limits the Lord Baltimore had pre

     scribed to himself, cou'd never be the Cause of any dispute

     with a Governmt with which they Laboured to maintain a per

     fect Amity and good Understanding

       That the Settlement of Nottingham having been made by

     this province near twenty years ago within the Limits we p. 82

     Conceived to be our proprietors undoubted right and with all

     due Caution and tenderness not to interfere with the Claims

     of Maryland in Case that Tract called Talbots mannor should

     be reverted to the Lord proprietor and Nottingham should

     appear to be within the Bounds of that Mannor as is alledged

     from late discoveries said to be made concerning it; there is

     the greater Reason to expect that the Lord Baltimore as

     General Proprietor may be the better Satisfied to let those In

     habitants remain unmolested till such time as it shall appear

     whether the Country where those Lands lie shall on the

     full determination of the Boundaries prove truly to be his

     Right especially since as this Board has been informed the

     Enlargement of the first Grant of that Mannor being upon a

     very slender Consideration seems to have been regarded as a

     thing of little or no Value to him but as it could be Obtained

     out of another province by the Endeavours of the Grantee

     otherwise it Appears difficult to Account why the Lord Bal

     timore shoud so easily part with so vast a Tract of Land for

     only a Triffle.

       That if the Survey and Grant of the Tract New Munster be

     of so Antient a date as the Letter expresses Yet it was not

     known nor heard of by any in this province (as far as can be

     discovered by this Board) for a Great many years after and