312 Assembly Proceedings, May 14-June 6, 1719.

U. H. J.

ment within the Bounds of their Land at Checkacone who
pray they may be Removed
That the English bring strong Drink to there Towns and
Sell it among their Indians to their great Prejudice.
Tom Bishop on Behalf of the Choptank Indians By the same
Interpreter Complains that the English have Very much
Incroached upon them in Settling within the Bounds of their
Land at Choptank so that they are now Drove into a small
narrow neck called Locust Neck.
Thereupon Ordered that the said Roger Fowler or any
Other Person who hath made any Incroachment on the said
Indians by settling within the Bounds of their said Lands
Remove thereout by the first day of Jan^ry next as they shall
Answer the Contrary att their Perrill

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Ordered that Commission be made out According to Act of
Assembly & Directed to Phil Lloyd Esq^r Col^o Rich^d Tilghman
& Col Ward to Decide the Differences of Consequence that
shall Happen Between the English & Indians on the Eastern
Shoar whether it be about the Bounds of their Land or Other-
wise as the Case shall Require

The House Adjourns till To morrow morning

Tuesday May 19. 1719
The House meett According to Adjournment

Present

Col Holland
Col. Young
John Hall Esq^r

Phil Lloyd Esq^r
Col Rich^d Tilghman
Col Matt Tilghman Ward

Tobias Pollards Petition being Read & the Evidences Ex-
amined in Relation thereto, the following Message is Pre-
pared Viz.

By the Uper House of Assembly

May 10^th 1719
Gentl.
Upon Evidence Given after Reading of the Petition of
Tobias Pollard herewith sent you, This House is of Opinion
that not Only his Excy the Gov^r in particular but the whole
Legislature of this pvince in Generall is basely Affronted &
Reflected on by a member of your House wherein as we take

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it your House is Particularly Concerned for if the Pet^r were a
tool in the Case alledged what Opinion must the Country have
of their Representatives, who are so Easily Influenced and