66 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1734.

Lib. M.

At a Council held at the house of his Excellency the Gov-
ernor in the City of Annapolis on Tuesday the 26^th of March
in the 19^th Year of his Lordship's Dominion Annoq Domini

1734
Present as Yesterday

Upon reading and considering the several Depositions laid
before this honourable Board in Relation to the many Disturb-
ances and Violences daily committed upon the Borders of this
Province by the Pensylvanians; It is advised resolved &
ordered that a Representation of the same be drawn by this
Board, and sent to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary; which Representation being drawn, is read, and approved
of by this Board in the following Words.

To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Baron of Balti-
more Lord Prop^ry of the Province of Maryland

The humble Representation of the Governor and Council
of the said Province

Your Lordship having been pleased by Our Stations in this
Government to intrust Us with a Watchfulness and Care tor
the Preservation and Safety of this his Majesty's Dominions
and your Lordships Province, might justly tax Us with a
Remisness in Our Duty to his Majesty and Faithfulness to
your Lordship, should We be silent on an Occasion which
requires Our utmost Efforts and Endeavours to prevent the
like pernicious Consequences as have happened from the un-
settled Boundaries between this Province and the Province of
Pensylvania
Although We pass over the many unwarrantable Attempts
to incroach upon your Lordships known Jurisdictions, and
even to dispossess your Lordship's acknowledged Tenants ;
Yet with the deepest Sense of the unhappy Situation Our
Frontiers are in, We must humbly represent to your Lordship
Our Apprehensions from Encouragements openly avowed of
bringing the Indians as Enemies amongst Us; Nor have the
bold Disturbers of Our Peace sloped in Words, but such have
been the Violences, that nothing less than the utmost force
could repel them, which occasioned the Loss of One of his
Majesty's Subjects.
We beg Leave to lay before your Lordship the Examina-
tions and Proofs to support these Particulars, which we humbly
submit to your Lordships Wisdom; And as We hope so We
doubt not of your Lordship's Readiness to take such effectual