Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1735. 71

this Province to take and imprison Thomas Cresap of Balti-
more County Planter One of his Lordships Officers of the
Peace of the said County, and if they could not take him the
said Cresap alive, him to kill & destroy and have endeavoured
to excite and perswade several Persons to burn the house of
him the said Thomas Cresap, and him to kill and murder, and
also that the said Emerson and Buchanan have unjustly and
without any Cause or lawful Authority taken and arrested
One William Cannon of Baltimore County Planter and several
Others on the publick Road in the said County and them
unlawfully and violently imprisoned to the great Terror of his
Majestys Subjects Inhabitants of the said County I have there-
fore thought fit with the Advice of his Lordships Council of
State to issue this my Proclamation hereby strictly charging
and commanding the Sheriff of Baltimore County and all
Other his Majestys Officers Civil and Military within this
Province to take and apprehend the said Emerson and Bu-
chanan or Either of them, and when they or Either of them,
shall be so taken or apprehended, him or them forthwith to
carry before One of his Lordship's Justices of the Provincial
Court, to be dealt with according to Law And as a Reward
and Encouragement for taking and apprehending the said
Emerson and Buchanan I do hereby promise that the Person
or Persons who shall take or apprehend them or Either of them
shall have fifty pounds Current Money for Each of them
Given at Annapolis this 23^d Day of April in the 21^st Year of
his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1735
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To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Baron of Baltimore
Lord Proprietary of the Province of Maryland

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

May it please Your Lordship
We have been heretofore obliged to trouble your Lordship
with a Representation of several Outrages committed by the
Pensylvanians on such of his Majesty's Subjects as live in this
Province near the Borders of Pensylvania, and We were in
hopes that the like Outrages would have been prevented by
the Care that this Government took to keep Our own People
quiet; the Charge the Magistrates had of puting the Laws for
Preservation of the publick Peace in due Execution, and the
Expectation We had that the Government of Pensylvania
would have concurred with Us in keeping every thing quiet

Liber. M.