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552 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752.
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which, I shall now endeavour to reply in the clearest Manner I
am able; and in the first Place, I readily acknowledge, His
Majesty's Order, confirming the Agreement of your late, and
Our present Proprietaries, is the Rule that ought to govern
Us; to which I shall, on this, and every other Occasion pay the
most chearful and exact Obedience
The third and fourth Articles of the Agreement are
3d Article " That All other Lands in contest between the said
" Proprietors now possessed by or under Either of them shall
"remain in the Possession as they now are (although beyond
"the temporary Limits hereafter mentioned) And also the
"Jurisdiction of the respective Proprietr shall continue over
"such Lands until the Boundaries shall be finally Settled, And
" that the Tenants of either side shall not attorn to the Other,
" nor shall Either of the Proprietors or their Officers receive
"or accept of Attornments from the Tenants of the other
" Proprietor"
4th Article " That as to all Vacant Lands in Contest between
" the Proprietors not lying within Either of the Three Lower
" Counties and not now possessed by or under Either of them
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" on the East side of the River Susquehannah down so far
" South as fifteen Miles and One Quarter of a Mile South of
" the Latitude of the most Southern Part of the City of Phila-
" delphia, And on the West side of the sd River Susquehannah
" down so far South as fourteen Miles and three Quarters of a
" Mile South of the Latitude of the most southern Part of the
" City of Philadelphia; the Temporary Jurisdiction over the
" same is agreed to be exercised by the Proprys of Pensilvania
" and their Governor Courts and Officers. And as to all such
" vacant Lands in Contest between the Proprietors and not
" now possessed by or under Either of them on both sides of
"the said River Susquehannah South of the respective South-
ern Limits in this Paragraph beforementioned The temporary
Jurisdiction over the same is agreed to be exercised by the
Proprietor of Maryland and his Governor Courts and Officers
without Prejudice to either Proprietor & until the Boundaries
shall be finally settled.
These Articles, and Order, establish in the Proprietor of
Maryland a Jurisdiction over all Lands then possessed by, or
under him, although to the Northward of the Temporary Lines,
and in the Proprietaries of Pensilvania a Jurisdiction over all
the other Lands to the Northward of those Lines
The Fact (to which I think it improper for me to give a
Name before a legal Tryal) was committed to the Northward
of the Lines, therefore if a Jurisdiction be claimed on the
behalf of the Proprietor of Maryland in my Apprehension, It
will be necessary, at least, to shew, it was done on some Tract
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