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Government of Pensilvania might pretend to entertain of the
Place where they ought to be tryed, This Government re-
quested that Governmt to cause the Offenders to be immedi-
ately apprehended in Order that they might be amesnable to
Justice in such Place as Your Majesty should be pleased to
direct; but contrary to all reasonable Expectation that Govern-
ment of Pensilvania was pleased to decline any Complyance
with that Demand by deferring their Apprehension 'till your
Majesty's Pleasure should be signifyed herein, nor could any
Remonstrance from this Government of the Probability of the
Offenders Escape and eluding by that means your Majesty's
Justice prevail with that Government to alter their Resolution.
We further humbly presume to lay before Your Majesty
Our Unhappiness in not being able to procure from the
Government of Pensilvania the Release of those unfortunate
Sufferers who are still confined in Pensilvania Goals: This
Desire was refused on Pretence that Thomas Cresap the
Owner of the House had been guilty of a former Murder, and
that the Others were present at the aforementioned Confusion
where One of Your Majestys Subjects was killed; That Accu-
sation of a former Murder against the Owner of the house,
will (We humbly hope) appear very extraordinary when We
presume to say, that a Man was killed by the Owner of the
house, when the very same house was in the Night time at-
tacked and broke into some Years ago by another Number of
Pensilvanians, and the Owner in Defence of his House fired
a Gun, and shot the Deceased in the Leg or Thigh of which
Wound he dyed; for this fact the Owner of the house was
brought to his Tryal in this Province; and the late Governor
of Pensilvania was so sensible of this being the Truth of the
Case, that he often declared the Owner of the house ought
not to be accountable for that Mans Death
The Government of Maryland (May it please Your Majesty)
sensible of their Duty to your Majesty for the Preservation of
Peace amongst Your Majestys Subjects, some Years ago pro-
posed to the Government of Pensilvania that both Govern-
ments should then immediately join in their humble Repre-
sentation to Your Majesty for Your Royal Interposition, and
in the mean time not only to remove any new Settlers on the
Borders, but also to prevent any future Settlements thereon
till Your Majestys Commands should be known. Had this
been agreed to, Our Borders had continued in Peace and
Your Majestys Subjects safe in their Lives and Properties
Our most dutiful Attachment to Your Majesty and Laws
makes Us incapable of retaliating those Injuries, but obliges us
to fly to Your Majestys Royal Pleasure and Will, which only
consist in the Peace and Happiness of all even the most
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