582 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753.

Lib. C. B.

Ordered by His Honour the President with the Advice of
this Board that the Present General Assembly of this Province
which stands prorogued to the third Day of July next be fur-
ther prorogued to the first Tuesday in August next being the
seventh Day of the same Month, and Proclamations issued
accordingly.

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday
the 26^th day of July in the third year of his Lordships Domin-
ion Annoq Dom. 1753
Present

The honourable Benjamin Tasker Esn^r President

The honble

Col George Plater

Edmund Jenings Esq^r

Col Charles Hammond
Col Benjⁿ Tasker.

Ordered by his Honour the President with the Advice of
this Board that the present General Assembly of this Province
which stands prorogued to the first Tuesday in August next
be further prorogued to the first Tuesday in October next
being the second day of the same Month and Proclamations
issued accordingly

P. 524

Articles of Peace and Amity Concluded and agreed upon
Between the Right Honourable Charles Absolute Lord and
Proprietor of the Province of Maryland and Tom Hill and
Robin Chief of the Indian River Indians on behalf of them-
selves and Indians under their Subjection this 24^th day of
July 1742

Imp" it is agreed upon that from this day forward to the
Worlds end there shall be an inviolable Peace and Amity
Between the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary of this Prov-
ince and the Chiefs of the Indian River Indian Towns upon
Articles hereafter in this treaty agreed upon and that all
former Acts of Hostility and Damages whatsoever sustained
shall be Turned in perpetual oblivion.
2^dly That if any Indian or Indians Subject to the said Chiefs
shall hereafter Assault beat or kill an Englishman or plot or
Conspire to make war with the English Inhabitants the said
Chiefs shall be obliged to deliver such Indians up to the Gov-
ernor of this Province to Suffer as the English should do for
the Like offence.
3^dly For as much as the English cannott easily distinguish
One Indian from another that no Indian shall Come into any
English Plantation painted and that all the Indians shall be
bound to call aloud before they Come within one Hundred