Samuel Chamberlain, Edward Lloyd Philip Thomas &
Benjamin Young Esquires Members of his Lordships Coun-
cil then present take the Oaths to the Government appointed
to be taken by Act of Assembly and also the Oath of Coun-
cilor & Subscribe the Abjuration & Test.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Copy of his Lordships Instructions

I will and Desire of you on your Arrival in our said
Province of Maryland to get the best Information you can
concerning the present State of the Boundaries I am now in
Possession of between me and the Pensilvanians, both in
respect to the North boundary of Maryland; as also in re-
spect to the Three Lower Counties called Delaware Counties
and of the True Cape Henlopen; and of the Twelve Mile
Circle round Newcastle how it will Affect the head of the
Bay Chesesopeake either Horizontal or Wheel Measurement
and how far North of the said Circle may be a good and
reasonable North Boundary to Maryland in respect as a
South Boundary to Pensilvania and of this I desire you to
transmit me as Soon as possible an Account.

This Board taking into Consideration the above Question
are of Opinion that so much will depend on the North Line
from the Middle or any other point of an East and West Line
across the Peninsula that the most adviseable Steps is to have
a due North Line Run by the Compass from the Middle of
the East and West Line already run from Fenwicks Island
to Taylors Island, by which this Board will be better enabled
to consider what Divisional line may affect the heads or
Navigable Waters of Our Rivers, or Its Intersection with