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It is the humble Advice of this Board to his Excellency
that he be pleased to write to Governor Hamilton desiring
that the said Lewis Desharoone may after his Tryal in that
Government be delivered to an Officer of this Government who
will be appointed to receive him that he may be proceeded
against here according to Law.

At a Council held at the Governors on Wednesday the 19^th
day of December in the third year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Domini 1753.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

The
Honourable

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond
Col Edward Lloyd

Col Benjamin Tasker
Benedict CalvertEsq^r

His Excellency is pleased to acquaint this Board that In-
formations have been given from Dorchester County that
Certain Persons Inhabiting within this Province have
brought down a Surveyor from the Government of Pensil-
vania to Survey Land (that lies considerably within Our
Settlements) adjacent to & joining on Tracts of Land which
they themselves the said Persons now hold and enjoy under
Maryland Rights and that they do by such proceedings deter
many of his Lordships Tenants who were disposed to take up
such Land under his Lordship Lord Baltimores Government
from Locating Warrants thereon. A Certain Roger Adams
who lives in Maryland and pays Taxes in this Province is

noticed as a Person, Guilty of such Practices, William Taylor,
Jacob Nooner & Arnold Hudson are also charged with bring-
ing a Pensilvania Surveyor from Kent County to Survey and
lay out for them Parcells of Land Situated in the midst of our
Settlements which said Parcells of Land they now Possess
and enjoy as they pretend under Titles Procured from Pensil-
vania
It is the Opinion of this Board that Encouragement ought
to be given to such Persons as will take up the same Lands by
lating them have Warrants to Resurvey the same, and to
take their Bonds for the Payment of the Caution Money but
that no Patent should issue unto them untill the Caution
Money should be paid and they in Actual Possession of the
said Land, And Ordered that Instructions be given to the
Sheriff of the said County to Apprehend such Persons as
shall come into this Province and make Surveys therein
under pretence of any Warrants from the Proprietaries of
Pensilvania, and the Sheriff is likewise Ordered to carry such

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