Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1737. 131

his Majestys highest Displeasure permit or Suffer any
Tumults, Riots, or other Outrageous Disorders to be Com-
mitted on the Borders of their respective Provinces, But that
they do immediately put a Stop thereto, and use their utmost
endeavours to preserve Peace & good Order amongst all his
Majestys Subjects under their Government Inhabiting the said
Borders, his Majesty doth hereby enjoyn the said Governors
that they do not make Grants of any Part of the Lands in
Contest between the Proprietors respectively nor of any Part
of the three Lower Counties commonly called Newcastle,
Kent & Sussex, nor permit any Person to Settle there or even
to attempt to make a Settlement thereon till his Majestys
Pleasure shall be further Signified; And his Majesty is further
pleased to direct that this Order together with Duplicates
thereof be delivered to the Proprietors of the said Provinces
who are hereby required to transmit the same forthwith to the
Governors of the said respective Provinces accordingly
W^m Sharp

Which Order being read It is the Advice of this Board to
his Excellency that a Proclamation be prepared to notify the
same immediately, which Proclamation being drawn accord-
ingly is approved of by this Board and ordered to be sent to
the several Counties of this Province, and which Proclamation
is as follows —

Maryland ss.

By his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Gov^r and Comman-
der in chief in & over the Province of Maryland

A Proclamation

Whereas his Majesty by his Order in Council on the 18^th
day of Aug⁵' last past reciting that whereas two Petitions from
the Province of Maryland had been presented to his Majesty
at that Board the one from the Governor and Council & the
other from the Commissary and Clergy of this Province which
represented amongst other things that there is a Suit depend-
ing in his Majestys high Court of Chancery of Great Brittain
between the Lord Baltimore Proprietary of Maryland & the
Family of the Penns who are the present Proprietors of Pen-
sylvania concerning the Validity of Certain Articles of Agree-
ment entered into Between them for adjusting the Boundaries
of their respective Provinces & that pend^s the said Suit great
Disorders & Outrages have been Committed on the Borders
of the Province of Maryland by the Inhabitants of the Province
of Pensylvania who had set Fire to the house of Cresap when
himself Wife and Children and Six others were in it & burnt

Lib. M.