The Lower House. 45

Col^o Greenberry from the Council enters the House and
delivers M^r Speaker the following Message and some Papers
relating thereto

By the Council in Assembly
8^ber 26^th 1711

By the late Order in Council and Return from L^t Col^o
Gale and Capt. Ballard thereon you will find the Nanticoke
Indians are much dissatisfied they may not be permitted to
continue at Broad Creek where they are set down, we cannot
think prudent to have any Difference with them especially at
this Time when our Fellow Subjects in North Carolina are at
open Rupture with the Tuskaroras and therefore recommend
it to your Consideration how to procure their Satisfaction
either by purchasing the three thousand Acres they are now
seated on or such other Means as you may judge effectual
thereto.
Signed p Order W Bladen Cl. Council.

L. H. J.

Lib. 41

Upon reading and debating the aforesaid Message and the
Report of the Committee appointed by this House to treat
with the said Indians,
It's Resolved That a Bill be brought in to impower L^t Col^o
Gale, M^r Benjamin Teales, M^r Samuel Worthington and Captain
Ballard to purchase three thousand Acres of Land for the Use
of the Nanticoke Indians &^ta
Ordered M^r Jones and M^r Dare attend the Council to see
M^r Rogers sworn to his Naval Officers Accounts. They
return and say they saw him sworn
The Referrence of last Session relating to the Act for 3^d p
Gallon on Rum &^u Read and referred till next Session
The Referrence on the Report of the Committee relating to
the Aggrievance by wild Horses read and further referred till
next Session for Consideration
The Referrence relating to the Aggrievance about the Sec-
retary and County Clerks Offices Read and referred till Mon-
day Morn.
Bill reviving and continuing the late discontinued Process
and Proceedings in S^t Mary's County Court Read and in-
dorsed.
By the House of Delegates
26^th October 1711

Read the first and second Times by especial Order and will
pass
R. Dallam Cl. Ho. Del.

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