96 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1736.

Lib. M.

Reserve for habitations for the said Indians made to several
Tenants of this Province since the Date of the said Reserve
It is humbly presumed that there they should settle and
reside, for that it can't be construed to be in the least within
the Intent of the said Reserve to extend to those prior and
ancient Grants, since there was more than sufficient in the said
Reserve for the Use of the said Indians, even at that Time,
when they were very numerous, not then taken up nor Granted
to any One.

Which said Remonstrance being read and considered of,
and the Records of the Land Office relating to the Grant of
Mattawoman Neck and the Reserve made for the Indians being
inspected to; It is the Opinion of this Board that M^r Pyes
Right to the said Land is prior to the Reserve made for the
Indians; the said Charles Pye is therefore left to his Remedy
at Law against the said Indian.

Maryland

To the Honourable Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor of the said
Province

The humble Petition of the Subscribers being the Inhabi-
tants of the County of Dorchester

Most humbly Sheweth unto Your Excellency
That whereas Edmund Jenings Esq^r Secretary of the Prov-
ince did take several Judgment Bonds for fees of your Peti-
tioners, and sent the said Bonds to Peter Taylor high Sheriff
of the said County in Order to collect the same, whereupon the
said Taylor put the said Bonds in suit & recovered Judgments
thereon before he sent his Officers to receive the same, not-
withstanding your Petitioners had the said Tobacco to pay un-
to the said Taylor for the Use of the said Jenings according
to the form and Effect of the said Bonds by which indirect and
unjust Actings and subtil Proceedings of the said Taylor and
his under Sheriffs in not receiving the said Tobacco when ten-
dered unto them, nor sending to see if they would pay the
same, and also executing some Persons which Edmund Jen-
ings had no Judgments against them, and imprisoned some
Persons that the said Taylor had no right to imprison, but for-
asmuch as your Petitioners had no Notice at the last hearing
before your Excellency and Council living at a great Distance
from John Brannock, We therefore humbly pray that we may
be heard before Your Excellency and honourable Council and
be relieved from such hardships as are imposed upon Your
Petitioners by them who take upon them to break thro' his
Lordships Good Rules of Government; This Complaint is