Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 189

At a Council held at the Governor's on Wednesday the 15^th
day of Opril in the Sixteenth year of his Lordship's Dominion
Anno Domini 1767.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor.
The honble Benjamin Tasker, Benedict Calvert, Daniel
Dulany and John Ridout Esq^rs

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

His Excellency having been Pleased to represent to the
Council that in Consequence of an Application from John
Redick of Frederick County complaining that he was forcibly
kept out of Possession of a Tract of Land called Carrolls
Delight by Persons pretending to Deny the Jurisdiction of the
Government of Maryland over the said Land and claiming to
be within the Jurisdiction of Pennsylvania he had wrote a
Letter to the honourable John Penn Esq^r Governor of Penn-
sylvania acquainting him therewith, And having laid before
the Council for their Advice Governor Penn's Answer thereto,
and also the Record of the Proceedings and Opinion of the
Magistrates of Frederick County Court together with other
Papers relative thereto, which are as follows.

Philadelphia 5^th April 1767.
Sir
I received your Favor of the 26^th March last by John Redick,
who appears to have been very injuriously and cruelly treated
and being sincerely disposed to assist him as well as to pro-
mote the Peace and Tranquility of the two Provinces, I
could wish it were in my Power to afford him the Redress his
wrongs so loudly demand. It appears that the Land of which
he has been dispossessed was granted by Lord Baltimore in
the year 1735. and was possessed under that Grant in the year
1738. when the Royal Order for settling the Temporary Line
was made, by that Order the Possessions of Lands, though
beyond the Temporary Limit prescribed by it, and the Juris-
dictions of the respective Proprietors, were to remain as they
then were till the boundaries between the two Provinces
should be finally settled.
The Right of Jurisdiction therefore depends on the Deter-
mination of a previous Question, which is, Whether what the
Commissioners have hitherto done is a final Settlement of the
Boundaries; and I confess I cannot help being of Opinion,
that as things stand the matter is not yet brought to such an
issue as to make it prudent for this Government to interpose
on this Occasion and I am the more Confirmed in this Opinion
because the Jurisdiction on either side the tangent Line still
remains unchanged, though the boundaries have for some

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