100 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1736.

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in direct Violation of his Peace within the same, as well as in
manifest Contempt of that high Authority, where the Dispute
between the Proprietors of Pensilvania & Maryland touching
their Boundaries, does now depend for a final Decision; and
may in their Consequences involve his Majestys Subjects in
Contests, whereby their Lives may be exposed to Danger and
their Estates to Depredations: We have therefore thought fit,
for the better Prevention and Suppression of such Riots and
Disorders, and for preserving his Majestys Peace within this
Province to issue this Our Proclamation, hereby strictly requir-
ing all Judges, Justices, Magistrates and other Officers within
the same to be vigilant and active in their several Stations, for
maintaining Peace and good Order within their respective
Districts, strictly charging and commanding the high Sheriffs
of the several Counties within this Province, with their in-
ferior Officers, especially those of the County of Lancaster
where these late Commotions have happened, as also those of
the County of Chester, to hold themselves in a Readiness
(upon any threatened Attack or Invasion) with the Posse of
their respective Counties, for preserving his Majestys Peace,
and for preventing all Riots Tumults and other Disorders
within their Bailiwicks; that they use their utmost Diligence in
apprehending and securing all such Persons as have been the
Incendiaries in, or the Authors and Abettors of these late Dis-
turbances, or shall hereafter be aiding and assisting in any
Others for the future; and in General that the said Sheriffs
exert the legal Powers wherewith they are invested for the
Defence and Protection of the Inhabitants, who are hereby re-
quired on the Call of the respective Sheriffs to give due At-
tendance, and assist them in the lawful Discharge of their
Duty in the Premises.
Given in Council under the Great Seal of this Province at
Philadelphia the seventeenth Day of September 1736 in the
Tenth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the
second, over Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender
of the Faith &c
By Order of the President and Council J. Logan Presid
R Charles Sec^r
God save the King

For M^r Thomas White at the head of Bush River in Balti-
more County or M^r Richard Gist to be sent to the Governor
of Maryland with Speed These

Lancaster County in Pensilvania
Sir
The Oppression and ill Usage We have met with from the
Government of Maryland, or at least from such Persons who