Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1735. 77

Upon Consideration of the said Petition It is Ordered that
the Clerk of this Board send M^r Peter Taylor a Copy thereof,
and that Summons issue for the said Taylor to attend this
Board on Thursday 24^th of October next, at which time It is
likewise Ordered that the said Brannock have Notice to
attend
His Excellency informs the Board that the Indians of Som-
erset County have complained to him, that several of the
English Inhabitants of that County have encroached upon the
Lands reserved for the Use of the said Indians, thrown down
their fencing, and destroyed their Com; Ordered that the
Attorney General take Care to get the best Information he
can of the fact, and proceed according to Law against such as
shall appear to have injured the said Indians in the Premises

To His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor of Maryland
in Council

The Petition of several of the Sheriffs of this Province on
behalf of themselves & the rest of the Sheriffs of
the said Province
Humbly Sheweth

That in the Table of fees setled by the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary of this Province in Council the four-
teenth Day of April Anno Domini 1733 in the Eighteenth
Year of his Lordships Dominion several fees are omitted
which have been always established and allowed either by the
several Acts of Assembly made heretofore for Limitation of
Officers fees, or by the Governors in Council as due to all
former Sheriffs as by the Particulars of the fees so omitted
and heretofore allowed hereto annext may appear to which
your Petitioners beg Leave to referr, which Fees Your Peti-
tioners are ready to make appear were for Services which
were attended with Difficulty and Hazard equal to the Fees
allowed them for and which Services your Pet^rs are still obliged
to perform, and humbly conceive his Lordship never intended
should be done without any fee or reward and that the Omis-
sion of allowing fees for them was occasioned by the Multi-
plicity of Business his Lordship had to dispatch, and the want
of being throughly informed of the Nature and Diversity of
the services which Sheriffs are by their Oath and Duty obliged
to do besides such as are mentioned in the said Table Your
Pet^rs further humbly shew that the Sheriffs Office is attended
with great Trouble and Expence and hazard and that should
the Office be deprived of the fees & Perquisites mentioned in
the annext particulars it would be so great an hardship &
disadvantage thereto that No Person capable of discharging
that Office would undertake the same.

Lib. M.