Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1747. 389

and with the Advice of his Lordships Council of State, to issue
this my Proclamation hereby requiring All Officers Civil and
Military, and All Other Persons whatsoever to use their
Utmost Endeavours to have the Articles of Peace at present
subsisting with the Indians Complyed with and that they take
particular Care that they be not obstructed in their hunting
fishing or making Traps for Wild Beasts & Vermin so long
as the said Indians shall behave peaceably And I do hereby
strictly charge and require the Sheriff of Dorchester County
to make this my Proclamation publick in his said County in
the Usual manner as he will answer the Contrary at his Peril
Given at the City of Annapolis this 30^th day of May in the
33^d year of his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1747

Ordered that the honourable Samuel Chamberlain Esq'
Mess" Robert Lloyd James Tilghman and William Thomas of
Talbot County Gentⁿ or any Three or Two of them enquire
into the Complaints made to this Board by the Choptank

Lib. C. B.

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Indians of some Persons making Encroachments within the
Bounds of their Lands as settled by Act of Assembly, and
also that they enquire into the Grounds of any other Com-
plaint made by the said Indians, and that they make Report
thereof to this Board; And It is likewise Ordered that for the
future the honble Col Edward Lloyd hear any Complaint
made by the said Choptank Indians and give them such Re-
dress, that they may live quietly and peaceably upon the
Lands assigned them.

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