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Advice afd shall be judged most Expedient and will best Show
our Indulgence to the Inhabitants of our said Province But
not to prevent the Benefit of the Discovery of Surplusage
Lands to such Person who may be Intitled thereto by Virtue
of my said Dear Fathers Proclamation
It is thought most expedient to suspend the issuing such
Proclamation untill his Lordships further Order
There being large Tracts of Land as I observe Reserved
for the Indians which the English have Encroached upon
made Surveys & got Grants of them and some, not Stuck to
deny, as I am Informed the payment of the Quit Rents, Al-
ledging that they hold of the Indians it is my Order therefore
that all these Reserves be Erected into Manors whereby
these Indians will be taken under my immediate Protection.
It is the Advice of this Board that the Attorney Generals
Opinion be had in Relation to the said Article.
You are hereby Impowered to lett the County Courts upon
Leases the Ferrys over the Rivers in the several Counties
within our said Province which would Contribute to the Ease
of the Inhabitants the said County Courts Paying such fines
and annual Rents in Sterling Money to me for the same as
shall be Settled by our Lieutenant Governor & Chancellor
Our Judge of the Land Office Secretary in our said Province
and your self and whoever shall presume to sett up Ferrys
in opposition to such Leases are to be prosecuted for the same
by our Attorney General of Our said Province, and Dis-
countinanced by all the Magistrates.
It is the opinion of this Board that Application be made by
the Agent to the County Courts as directed by the said
Article and if the County Courts are inclinable to take the
said Ferrys of the Agent that he then make the best Terms
with them for his Lordships Interest he can.
At a Council held at the Governors on Friday the 11th Day
of January in the third year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoque Domini 1754.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor
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